Macromedia Inspectors:

Inspectors:

An inspector is a panel that allows you to display and alter the attributes of objects and pages. At least one inspector is used in almost all drawing tasks. FreeHand comes with the following inspectors:

v   The Object inspector displays the position and dimensions of a selected object or objects. You can edit values in the Object inspector and apply them to a selection.

v   The Stroke inspector displays the stroke attributes of a selected path, including the types of strokes (None, Basic, Brushes, Custom, Pattern, and PostScript), and the stroke width, cap, join, miter limit, dash setting, and arrowheads.

v   The Fill inspector displays the fill attributes of a selected path. Fills include None, Basic, Custom, Gradient, Lens, Pattern, PostScript, Textured, and Tiled.

v   The Text inspector displays the formatting of selected text. The inspector contains five sub panels: Character, Paragraph, Spacing, Columns and Rows, and Adjust Columns.

v   The Document inspector displays thumbnail icons for each page in your document. You can move the thumbnails in the inspector with the Pointer tool to move the corresponding pages on the pasteboard. You can choose from three magnified views. The Document inspector also has options for adding, duplicating, and removing pages, plus options to set page size, orientation, bleed, and printer resolution.  
     

        

 Using toolbars:

FreeHand has several toolbars, which appear along the top, left, and bottom of the Document window. The Xtra Tools and Xtras Operations toolbars appear on the left side of the Document window. The Main, Text, and Envelope toolbars appear above the Document window. The Status toolbar appears at the bottom of the Document window. You can customize the location of the toolbars.

You can also display information about the tools as the pointer passes over them.

v  The Main toolbar replicates many of the menu commands and lets you create, open, save, or import documents; find and replace graphics; lock and unlock objects; and display commonly used panels and inspectors.

v  The Xtra Tools toolbar contains drawing and transformation tools that are plug-ins, which can be added and removed from the application.

v  The Xtra Operations toolbar contains buttons for applying path operations.

v  The Text toolbar contains common text commands and lets you choose a font and set font, text, word, and paragraph options.

v  The Envelope toolbar has tools for applying envelope transformations to objects or groups.

v  The Info toolbar gives information on selected objects, depending on the object type and current action. Possible items included in this toolbar are the object type, the pointer position, the change in an object's position, the object's angle, the center of rotation, the radius, and the number of sides the object has.

v  The Status toolbar appears along the bottom of the Document window.

To show or hide toolbars, do one of the following:

v  To show or hide individual toolbars, choose Window > Toolbars and choose the toolbar name.

v  To show or hide all active toolbars, choose View > Toolbars.

v  To show or hide the Tools panel, choose Window > Tools.

The Main toolbar:

The Main toolbar contains the basic commands you use when beginning your FreeHand project. You use the Main toolbar to open, lock, and unlock document files and to manage the appearance of your document.

Using the Tools panel:

The Tools panel contains tools that allow you to select, draw, and edit objects, apply color to objects, and create text. It is divided into two sections: Tools and Colors. You can customize the panel by adding and removing buttons.

The Tools panel contains the following tools by default: