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Director 7.0 : Authorware 4 : Freehand : Toolkit : DirectLoops

Freehand 8

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Product Overview

Today, rapidly changing technology poses a new challenge to graphic designers. While designers are still required to produce bulletproof PostScript print output, they are also expected to generate compact graphics for web pages. They are searching for a way to combine the sophisticated design sensibility we have come to expect in print design, with the animation and interactivity that win viewers attention on the Web. FreeHand 8 is the solution. This new release includes significant enhancements to allow designers to work more efficiently in both print and web.

New Features:
Design Power
Real vector transparency that prints! FreeHand 8 is the first high-end, PostScript-based drawing program to offer true, dynamic transparency capabilities while preserving documents in an editable vector format.Users can set transparency attributes in the Fills panel, such as shape, location, opacity, and color.

Setting Transparencies with the Fills Pane

The Magnify Lens Fill

Magnify
The Magnify lens fills the lens object with a variable zoom view from anywhere in a FreeHand document. This is useful for creating live insets or annotations of bitmapped or vector diagrams, infographics, and technical illustrations.
Effects and Preset Styles
Users moving projects into FreeHand from Illustrator also can leverage the swatches contained in their Illustrator documents. FreeHand automatically turns these swatches into graphic styles.
Customization
Users have widely varying preferences regarding buttons and button bars for shortcuts to commonly used functions. In FreeHand 8, users can specify which functions are represented as buttons by choosing File: Customize: Toolbars. Designers can remove, add, or reorder the buttons and fields on the main toolbar, the text bar, and the info bar.
Design in Motion Suite
The Design in Motion suite is targeted at customers who are looking for a complete solution for vector-based web design: FreeHand 8 for design, illustration, and multipage document creation Flash 3 for animation, interactivity, and sound, as well as file size optimization
Insta.HTML 2 for easily exporting FreeHand pages as HTML pages.


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