“Aldus FreeHand feels as natural now as working with a sketch pad was ten years ago.”
—Jeff Tull, Fearless Design Inc.
This manual includes suggested hands-on activities that will give you an experience of the incredible performance you can expect when you team up a great computer with a great illustration program: Apple Macintosh and Aldus FreeHand 4.0.
You can buy Aldus FreeHand from your local software reseller. In the U.S. and Canada, you can also call (800) 685-3560 for more information or to order a copy. In other countries, please contact your nearest Aldus subsidiary, distributor, or dealer. The Aldus subsidiaries are listed near the end of this document, in the section called “WHERE TO CALL WITH YOUR ORDER.”
Aldus FreeHand 4.0 unites a complete set of illustration, page design, and production tools into a versatile package that never gets in the way of your creativity or your productivity.
Developed in close collaboration with creative professionals, it presents a flexible working environment that delivers speed, precision, and quality color output without compromising your working style.
Here’s your chance to experience firsthand the creative freedom and precision you need to bring your concepts to reality—naturally.
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Powerful page design features speed your work and broaden your options:
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• 561/2" x 561/2" pasteboard for setting up multiple pages in multiple sizes
• Support for columns, rows, gutters, and margins
• Automatic copyfitting of text within any shape and along any path
• Unlimited number of layers for organizing and viewing objects
• Paragraph controls, such as alignment, spacing above and below, justification, and hyphenation
• Automatic hyphenation, with support for installable dictionaries for 16 other languages
• Easy linking and unlinking to control the order of text flow among objects
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Superior text capabilities provide precision and control for compelling typography:
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• Text entry right in the design
• Automatic text wrap around any object
• Drag-and-drop tabs: left, right, center, and decimal tabs and a unique wrapping tab for creating columns within columns
• Typographic precision, with kerning, range kerning, letter and word spacing, baseline shift, and horizontal scaling
• Support for hanging punctuation
• More than 120 free Type 1 fonts
• Advanced tools for text rotation, skewing, and reflection
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Extensive graphics capabilities broaden your creative options:
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• Numerous path-editing shortcuts, such as Union and Punch, for creating complex objects quickly
• Quick, automatic creation of tints from any color
• Polygon tool for creating stars, hexagons, and other regular polygons automatically
• Pressure-sensitive calligraphic pen mode, with custom settings for nib angle and width
• Editable arrowheads and built-in line weights and fills
• Autotracing tool
• Color separation of all elements, including CMYK TIFF, RGB TIFF, and DCS images
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Natural, accessible interface provides the tools you want, when you want them:
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• Inspector palette, a main control panel with real-time feedback and access to object-level attributes
• Eleven readily accessible palettes for controlling all aspects of illustrations, including type, colors, transformations, and halftones
• New and enhanced color and tint palettes for mixing, defining, and naming colors quickly
• Drag-and-drop transfer of colors from palettes to objects, even to unselected objects
• Lockable layers for protecting design elements from accidental editing or deletion
• Two working modes: full-color preview and black-and-white keyline
• Styles palette for quickly defining and saving graphic attributes
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Smooth integration between products and platforms allows for a flexible workflow:
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• Ability to open and edit Aldus FreeHand EPS files without having the original file
• Hotlinks to Aldus PageMaker® 4.2 and 5.0 (Macintosh)
• OLE support as a client and server (Windows)
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Import formats (Macintosh): RTF and ASCII text; AI 1.1, 88, and 3.0; DCS, EPS, paint, TIFF™, PICT, and PICT2 graphics
• Export formats (Macintosh): RTF and ASCII text; AI 1.1, 88, and 3.0; EPS (including editable EPS), MacDraw, PICT, and PICT2
• Import formats (Windows): RTF and ASCII text; AI, BMP, Corel-Draw (CDR), DRW, EPS, PIC, TIFF and WMF graphics, and more
• Export formats (Windows): RTF and ASCII text; AI, BMP, EPS (in-cluding editable EPS), EPS with color TIFF, WMF graphics, and more
We want you to experiment with our sample illustrations. Since you cannot save your changes with the Trial Version, nothing you do will damage the original illustration.
TO OPEN THE SPECIAL TRIAL VERSION SAMPLE ILLUSTRATION: double-click the program icon. Then select the Open command in the File menu. Double click on the Sample Illustrations folder and then double click on the file called “FestaTV.FH4.”
WHAT YOU WILL SEE is an illustration page, reduced in scale to fit into the Aldus FreeHand 4.0 illustration window. The page shows a finished illustration, called “FestaTV.FH4.” Surrounding the page is the pasteboard. Illustration objects can be positioned on the pasteboard but will print only when located on an illustration page. Smaller windows may also appear in front of the illustration; these are palettes.
Palettes are interactive panels that replace dialog boxes and menu commands.
TO OPEN A PALETTE:
• Open the Window menu and choose one of the commands that is not checked.
TO CHANGE PALETTE VIEWS:
• Open the “Inspector” palette.
• Click the zoom box on the far-right end of the palette title bar. Then click it again.
• Click, in turn, each of the five icons across the top part of the “Inspector” palette.
• Click on the title bar and drag the palette to another location on the screen.
TO CREATE A COLOR:
• Open the “Color mixer” palette.
• Type a number between 1 and 100 in each of the four edit boxes (C, M, Y, K).
• Drag the sliders beside these edit boxes.
TO SAVE A COLOR:
• Open the “Color list” palette.
• Place the pointer on the color you mixed in the “Color mixer” palette. Hold the mouse button down, and drag to the “Color list” palette; then drop the color in the Color drop box, which is the small box with a downward arrow near the upper-right corner of the “Color list” palette. The saved color now appears at the bottom of the list of colors.
TO REDEFINE A COLOR:
• Create a new color on the “Color mixer” palette.
• Drag the new color to the “Color list” palette, and drop it on top of the swatch of the color named “Cloth.” Notice the changes in the illustration.
• Choose “Undo” from the Edit menu to change back to the original color.
There are a number of drawing tools for freeform drawing and for automatic drawing of basic shapes. The tools are located on the Toolbox, another one of the palettes.
The drawing tools include:
• Rectangle tool (click and drag)
• Polygon tool (click and drag; double-click the tool icon to set options)
• Ellipse tool (click and drag)
• Line tool (click and drag)
• Freehand tool (click and drag)
• Pen tool (click, move to a new position, and click or click-drag; repeat. Double-click the tool icon to set options.)
• Bezigon tool (looks like a rounded triangle: click, move to a new position, and click; repeat.)
• Use the Pointer tool (the arrow-shaped icon on the Toolbox) to select a closed object by clicking on it. Or, draw a new closed object.
NOTE: Selection handles or path points appear when an object is selected. (Press the Tab key if you want to deselect, and the handles or points will disappear--but don’t do that now).
• Open the Fill Inspector (the icon second from the left on the “Inspector” palette).
• Choose various options from the drop-down list just below the icons on the Fill Inspector.
• Drag and drop colors from other palettes to color wells on the Fill Inspector.
NOTE: If you choose a “Textured,” “Custom,” or “PostScript” fill, your monitor will display a pattern of letters. Print to see the fill effect.
• Duplicate an object and then drag it a short distance. Do not deselect the object.
• Choose “Duplicate” again.
• Choose “Duplicate” repeatedly.
TO POWER-DUPLICATE WITH OTHER CHANGES:
• Choose “Transform...” from the Arrange menu to open the “Transform” palette.
• Select an object, and choose “Clone” from the Edit menu. A duplicate will appear exactly above the original, so you probably will not see any difference on screen.
• Then move, rotate, resize, skew, or reflect the object by choosing an icon and entering options on the “Transform” palette. Click on "Apply" to complete the transformation. (You can do more than one transformation as long as you are careful not to deselect the object during the process. EXAMPLE: Draw a rectangle with the Rectangle tool; clone it; resize it at 80%; move it outside the area of the original rectangle; and rotate it 30°.)
• Double-click the Freehand tool icon (it looks like a scribble, to the left of the Pen tool) to open a dialog box. Try drawing with each of the three variations of the Freehand tool. NOTE: With the Variable stroke tool, use the left and right arrow keys or a pressure-sensitive input device to change the drawing width.
• Select three or four objects at once. Then open the “Align” palette from the Arrange menu, and select options for horizontal and vertical alignment.
• Select two overlapping, closed shapes. Choose commands from the “Path operations” submenu on the Arrange menu and notice the results.
• To get rid of a mistake without destroying all your changes, choose “Undo” from the Edit menu. To get rid of several mistakes, choose “Undo” several times in succession.
• If you type something in a palette and no change occurs, or the typing changes back to the original entry, retype your entry and press the Return key.
• If you type more text than fits in the text block you created, you have a couple of options. (1) Drag one of the corners of the text block with the Pointer tool to resize it. (2) Use the Text tool to create a second text block. Then use the Pointer tool to drag from the small square below the lower-right corner of the original text block (the square will contain a large black dot) to the new text block. The excess text will flow into the new text block.
Now that you’ve experience the combined performance of the Apple Macintosh and Aldus FreeHand 4.0, it’s easy to see how the tremendous speed and powerful features will streamline your work and increase your productivity. You’ll have more time to enjoy doing what you do best—creating your own designs, artwork, and solutions.
To unleash the full potential of Aldus FreeHand 4.0, make your order now.
Your license agreement with Aldus Corporation, which is included with the product, specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Any unauthorized duplication or use of Aldus FreeHand 4.0, in whole or in part, in print, or in any other storage and retrieval system is prohibited.
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Aldus FreeHand was developed by Samantha Seals-Mason, Steven Johnson, John Ahlquist, Bill Fahle, Bob Sander-Cederlof, Dennis Griffin, Mike Thenhaus, Michael Froman, Jeff Ahlquist, Kevin Crowder, Rusty Williams, and Jim Von Ehr. Special thanks to Doug Benson, Christy Rollins, and Brian Welter.
Aldus Europe Limited, Aldus House, West One Business Park, 5 Mid New Cultins, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, EH11 4DU, Tel. 44 31 453 2211
For service and support in the United States, please contact Aldus Corporation. For service and support in Canada, South America, and East Asia, please contact Aldus Pacific Rim. For service and support in Africa and Europe, please contact Aldus Europe Limited. Outside these areas, please contact your local distributor or dealer. If you purchased your Aldus software through a hardware manufacturer, technical support for your software may instead be provided as part of the system support from the hardware manufacturer.
Quotation reprinted by permission from Jeff Tull, Fearless Design Inc.
