User manual MACROMEDIA FREEHAND

[. . . ] Using FreeHand TM macromedia ® Trademarks Add Life to the Web, Afterburner, Aftershock, Andromedia, Animation Powerpack, Aria, Attain, Authorware, Authorware Star, Backstage, Design in Motion, Director, Dream Templates, Dreamweaver, Drumbeat 2000, Extreme 3D, Fireworks, Flash, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, Know Your Site, Knowledge Objects, Knowledge Stream, Knowledge Track, LikeMinds, Lingo, Live Effects, Macromedia, Macromedia Action!, Macromedia M Logo & Design, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Xres, Macromind, MacroModel, Made with Macromedia Logo and Design, MAGIC, Mediamaker, Movie Critic, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, ShockRave, Shockmachine, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Titlemaker, UltraDev, Web Design 101, what the web can be and Xtra are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. US Patents 5, 353, 396, 5, 361, 333, 5, 434, 959, 5, 467, 443, 5, 500, 927, 5, 594, 855 and 5, 808, 610. Third-Party Information Third-party trademarks, trade names, product names, and logos contained in this publication may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. This guide contains links to third-party web sites that are not under the control of Macromedia, and Macromedia is not responsible for the content on any linked site. [. . . ] You use the Styles panel to duplicate, remove, and edit object and paragraph styles. To display the Styles panel: Choose Window > Panels > Styles. 250 Chapter 7 To edit a style: 1 2 Click the style name in the Styles panel. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Edit to set specific attributes. 3 Click OK. To change how styles display in the Styles panel: Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose one of the following: · Choose Show Names to list the styles by name. · Choose Hide Names to show previews of the styles' attributes. Styles shown by name with graphic and text icons (left), and by style previews (right) Using Layers, Symbols, and Styles 251 Applying styles You can apply a style to a selection by using the Styles panel to select or drag and drop a style, or by copying and pasting. You can set preferences to control how new styles are defined and whether new graphic styles apply immediately to selected objects. To apply a style, do one of the following: · Select the object to which you will apply the style. In the Styles panel, click the style you want to apply. · Drag a style from the Styles panel to the object. To copy and paste style attributes: 1 Select the object whose attributes you want to copy, and choose Edit > Copy Attributes. Select the object onto which you'll paste the attributes, and choose Edit > Paste Attributes. 2 Dragging and dropping a graphic style to apply it to an object To set how graphic styles are defined and applied to selections: 1 2 Choose Edit > Preferences. Do one of the following to apply new graphic styles: selected objects. · Select Auto-apply to Selection to apply the object style immediately to · Select Define Style Based on Selection to have selected objects define the style you create. 3 Click OK. 252 Chapter 7 Adding, duplicating, and removing styles To add new styles, copy styles, or remove styles, you use the Styles panel. To create a new style: 1 2 3 Choose Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect your artwork. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose New. To add a new style based on a selection: 1 2 Select an object or text. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose New. Note: If the selection the style is based on is a bitmap or has a stroke or fill that is not recognized, the new style displays with a white stroke or white fill. To duplicate a style: 1 2 3 Choose Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect your artwork. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Duplicate. To remove a style: 1 2 3 Choose Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect your artwork. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Remove. To remove all unused styles: Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Remove Unused. To rename a style: 1 Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Show Names. Type a new name, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh). 2 3 Using Layers, Symbols, and Styles 253 Modifying styles You can modify any stroke, fill, color, or halftone attribute using the Edit Style dialog box. You can also override or redefine a style using the Options pop-up menu within the Styles panel. To edit a style: 1 Choose Window > Panels > Styles to display the Styles panel, and click the style name in the panel. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Edit. The Edit Style dialog box appears. 2 3 Change any attributes as desired, and click OK to save your style. To override a style: 1 Select the object, paragraph, or text block containing the style you want to override. When you select the object or text, the overridden style appears highlighted with a plus (+) sign preceding the style name or style preview. 2 To redefine a style based on a selected object or selected text: 1 2 Apply the desired attributes to the selected object or text. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Styles panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Redefine. 254 Chapter 7 3 In the Redefine Style dialog box, select the name of the style you are redefining, and click OK. The style assumes the attributes of the selected object or text. Note: If you have nothing selected, then the style is redefined based on your default drawing attributes. To remove a style override: 1 2 Select an object, paragraph, or text block with an overridden style. In the Styles panel, select the object's style to reapply the style. Basing one style on another You can base one style on another. One parent style can have many different child styles based on it; for instance, the children can all have the same fill but various stroke weights. Editing a parent style changes any attributes that the child styles share. Removing a child style from an object or text makes the parent style active, but the object or text retains all of its attributes. To base one style on another: 1 2 3 Choose Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect all objects. [. . . ] Smoothness formula for banding For process colors, up to four inks describe the color at the each end of a transition, and each ink has its own degree of banding. Calculate the tint band size for the most visible ink--usually black or magenta. For less exacting output, tint bands of 1 to 2 points may be acceptable. Use these formulas to determine the optimum values to minimize banding when printing color transitions. [. . . ]