User manual MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX-USING FREEHAND MX

[. . . ] Using FreeHand MX Macromedia FreeHand MX Copyright © 1988 - 2003 Macromedia, Inc. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under a license and may not be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or converted to any electronic or machine-readable form in whole or in part without prior written approval of Macromedia, Inc. assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual. Trademarks Allaire, Authorware, ColdFusion, Contribute, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Fontographer, FreeHand, HomeSite, Jrun, Kawa, Macromedia, Macromedia M Logo & Design, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Communication Server, Macromedia Flash Remoting, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, SoundEdit, Shockwave, UltraDev, what the web can be and Xtra are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. [. . . ] Select Bevel or Static in the extrude type pop-up menu. Click the Paste In button to use the copied path as the extrusion profile shape. The new profile shape appears in the Profile Preview box. 210 Chapter 7 To edit the profile attributes of an extrusion: 1 2 3 Select the extruded object. Click the Profile button in the Object panel. Select a profile type from the Profile pop-up menu: None Bevel produces a default extrusion. produces an extrusion by sweeping the path profile around the perimeter of the object while matching the angles of the object's perimeter. Static produces an extrusion by sweeping the path profile around the perimeter of the object while maintaining the original angle of the path profile. 4 5 If you selected Static in step 3, enter a value in the Angle box to determine the angle at which the profile path is applied to the extrusion. For Steps, enter a value to determine the amount of detail used to render the surface from front to back. Higher values produce smoother shading, but take longer to render and print. Special Effects 211 6 For Twist, enter a value, in degrees of clockwise rotation, to determine how far the rear face of the extrusion should rotate. Working with blends You can create a blend from two or more paths that have the same fill and stroke type. Blending creates a series of intermediate objects between the original paths. Beginning with the bottom object in the stacking order, each intermediate object's shape, stroke, and fill becomes closer to that of the object at the top of the stacking order. FreeHand creates live blends that you can adjust dynamically. If you ungroup a blend, FreeHand converts the live blend objects to regular, editable objects. You can modify a blend by using the Blend tool, by using the Object panel, or by modifying a subselection of the blend group. FreeHand automatically regenerates the blend. You can create a blend between selected points on the original objects, creating different results than an object-to-object blend. The selected points determine the shape of the intermediate blend objects. Path direction can also affect blending. 212 Chapter 7 Blends between spot colors result in intermediate steps using only tints of those spot colors and will print on two separation plates. When printing a spot-to-process blend, the spot color is set to overprint the process color. Steps in spot-to-spot and spot-to-process blends are set to process colors if the blend is ungrouped. This also occurs if incompatible colors or fills are chosen, or if the blends are exported to earlier versions of FreeHand or to applications such as Adobe Illustrator, which may not support spot colors in blends. For more information on colors, see Chapter 5, "Working with Color, " on page 147. You can blend basic fills and gradient fills interchangeably. Other types of fills can be blended only with their same fill type. Using the Blend tool The Blend tool lets you easily create and modify blends by dragging the blend "rubber band" from one object to another. [. . . ] See EPS files end-of-column character 242, 272, 273 end-of-line character 242 Envelope toolbar 22, 223 envelopes 222 applying 223 converting to paths 223 Envelope toolbar and 22, 223 preset 224 removing from objects 224 using paths as 223 EPS files converting colors when exporting (Windows) 351 Editable 341 exporting 350, 351 importing 314 Eraser tool 95 erasing paths 95 Even/Odd Fill option 128 Exact Palette option 356 exiting FreeHand 58 expand path effect 196 Expand Stroke command 135 Expand Stroke Xtra 135 Export Again command 347 export area 348 Export command 52 Export Notes option 360 Export Page Boundary option 347 Export Symbols dialog box 52 Export URLs option 360 394 Index exporting defining the output area for 348 Flash movies (SWFs) 336 master pages 52 selected objects 347 styles 307 symbols 300 text with inline graphics 361 exporting files 341, 345, 346 Adobe Illustrator format 350 alpha channels and 353 BMP format 355 choosing a format for 344 converting colors for 349 defining color depth 354 defining transparency for 354 dithering colors in GIFs 355, 356 Editable EPS format 341 EPS format 350 formats for 342, 343 FreeHand format 350 GIF format 355 HTML documents 329 JPEG format 357 launching external editor for 347 output devices and 344 PDF format 358 Photoshop EPS format 351 Photoshop PSD format 357 PNG format 358 reexporting 347 SWF format 336, 338 Targa format 358 thumbnail preview 347 TIFF format 358 vector format 350 web formats for 344 Extensis Portfolio (Macintosh) 349 external editors editing images in 323 launching when exporting files 347 setting options 322 Extra (+) option 253 extracting bitmap images 318 embedded graphics 64 Extrude tool 206 extruding objects 205 extrusion editing the profile 210 editing the surface 209 F Fast Keyline and Fast Preview modes 29 feather effect 204 File Info dialog box 342 File Info Xtra 342 File Viewer, importing artwork with 317 files closing 58 converting into templates (Macintosh) 61 export formats for 342 exporting. See exporting files import types 310 reverting to last saved version 146 saving 341 unsaved document indicator 15 Fill attributes 20, 108 Fill property 20, 108 fills adding 166 applying to text and text blocks 269­270 basic, applying 178 custom 178 deleting 166 gradient. See lens fills linear 180 overlapping 96, 128 pattern 187 PostScript 188 reordering 166 textured, applying 189 tiled 190 Find & Replace and Select panel group 15 Find & Replace panel 15, 124, 259 Find and Replace command 95, 124, 125, 126 Find Capitalization Errors option 243 Find Duplicate Words option 243 finding and replacing fonts 260 graphics 126 objects 124 text 247 type attributes 259, 260 Fireworks editing bitmap images 320 optimizing bitmaps 321 Fireworks files, importing 312 First Line Leading option, for columns 274 Fisheye Lens tool 217 Fixed (=) option 253 Index 395 fixed-size text blocks converting to auto-expanding 236 creating 234 overflow text in 234 Flash actions assigning parameters to 333 assigning to an object 332, 333, 334 Flash movie, text export options 338 Flash movies 336 changing settings 338 exporting 336, 337 importing 335 protecting from import 337 testing movies 338 Flow Around Selection command 281 Flow Around Selection dialog box 282 flow charts 102 Flow Inside Path command 280 Flow option 272 flowing text in a path 280 Flush Zone option 267 font encoding, for HTML 330 fonts Adobe Type Manager (ATM) and 383 choosing 250 finding and replacing 259, 260 PostScript 384 previewing 251 printing 383 replace missing 65, 66 searching for 259 substituting 65 TrueType 384 Foreground layer 289 Fractalize command 224 Frame Rate option, with Flash animation 337 Freeform tool 90 FreeHand and Fireworks integration launching and editing bitmap images 320 launching and optimizing bitmap images 321 FreeHand format, exporting to 350 FreeHand installer 8 FreeHand MX File Viewer, importing artwork with 317 Full Screen action 333 Full Screen Playback option, with Flash 337 G Get URL action 332 GIF files 328 compressing 328 defining color depth 356 dithering 355, 356 exporting 355 importing 313 Index Color option with 356 interlaced 356 Optimized Palette option with 356 palette options for 356 transparency 356 WebSnap palette 356 global changes 124 glow effect 202 Go To and Play action 332 Go To and Stop action 332 gradient fills graduated 180 linear 180 selecting colors for 181, 182, 183, 184 gradient mask effect 204 Graphic Hose tool 103 drawing with 104 options for 106 restoring defaults for 105 graphic hoses creating 105 deleting 105 importing 104 selecting 104 graphic styles applying 302 creating 303 defined 301 modifying 305 preferences 303 graphics embedding 62 importing 310 inline. See inline graphics linking 62 updating links to after opening document 64 vector. [. . . ]