Real world FreeHand 8 Book

chapter 1: FreeHand Basics
The Publication Window
FreeHand's Palettes
Finding the Right Mouse Button
Customizing Toolbars
Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts Changing Document Defaults Setting Up Pages
Moving Around in Your Publication
Using FreeHand's Toolbox
Constraining Tools
What's on My Page?
Thinking Objectively
Selecting and Deselecting Elements
Moving Elements
Working with Layers
FreeHand and the Edit Menu
Preferences
Secret Preferences
FreeHand Xtras
Getting Help
The Tao of FreeHand

chapter 2: Drawing
Basic Shapes
Resizing Rectangles and Ellipses
Changing a Rectangle's Corner Radius
Converting Rectangles and Ellipses into Paths
Points and Paths
Path-Drawing Tools
Manipulating Control Handles
Drawing Techniques
Selecting and Moving Points
Splitting and Joining Paths
Composite Paths
Path Operations Tracing
Strokes
Fills
Working with Graphic Styles
Creating Charts and Graphs
Using the Graphic Hose
Creating Drop Shadows
Embossing Paths
Path Transformation Xtras
Perspective Drawing
Drawing Conclusions

chapter 3: Text and Type
Entering and Editing Text
Changing Case
Checking Spelling
Finding and Changing Text
Working with Text Blocks Character Formatting
Paragraph Formatting
Working with Text Styles
Automatic CopyÞtting
Joining Text to a Path
Flowing Text Inside Paths
Wrapping Text around Objects
Converting Characters into Paths
Inline Graphics
After Words

chapter 4: Importing and Exporting
Getting Files into FreeHand
Importing Anything
About Graphic File Formats
A Philosophical Note
About File Types and Platforms
Importing Object Graphics
Working with Images
Importing EPS Graphics
Linking and Embedding
Managing Linked Files
Importing Text
There's Always a Way
Exporting
Converting FreeHand Objects to Bitmaps
Publishing and Subscribing (Macintosh Only)
Object Linking and Embedding (Windows Only)
Working with PDF
The Best of All Possible Worlds

chapter 5: Transforming
Moving
Scaling
Rotating
Reßecting Skewing
Transformation and Projective Drawing
Creating Clipping Paths
Locking Objects
Aligning and Distributing
Finding and Replacing Graphics
My Life Was Transformed

chapter 6: Color
Color Printing
Color Management
Color in FreeHand
FreeHand's Color Controls
Creating and Adding Colors
Editing Colors
Applying Colors
Color Xtras
Creating Spot-Color Tint Builds
Trapping
Separating Color Images
Color Me Gone

chapter 7: Printing
The FreeHand Print Dialog Box
Print Setup
Printing and Page Setup
Printing Signatures
FreeHand and PPDs
Rewriting PPDs
Printing PostScript to Disk
Preparing a FreeHand File for Imagesetting
The Golden Rules
Printing Troubleshooting
Printing to Non-PostScript Printers
Fortune Cookie

chapter 8: PostScript
What Is PostScript?
What's PostScript Got to Do with FreeHand?
Writing Your Own EPS Files
Looking at FreeHand's PostScript
Creating Your Own PostScript Effects
FreeHand's PostScript Resources (Macintosh)
Changing FreeHand's PostScript (Macintosh)
Creating External Resource Files (Macintosh)
PostScript Postscript

chapter 9: FreeHand and the Web
Cast of Characters
Exporting GIF Images
Creating Shockwave Flash Graphics
>From FreeHand to Fireworks
Attaching URLs to FreeHand Objects
Saving FreeHand Pages as HTML
Color and the Web
A Tangled Web
appendix a&#nbsp;&#nbsp;&#nbsp;Scripting
appendix b&#nbsp;&#nbsp;&#nbsp;Resources