Adobe Macromedia FreeHand MX v.11.0 - Upgrade

MODEL ADBCD57666MC       VENDOR- ADOBE SOFTWARE
FEATURES FreeHand MX for Mac- Upgrade version
       Macromedia FreeHand MX Upgrade from FreeHand 10.x. Note: To install
       upgrade successfully, you will need a licensed version of
       Macromedia Freehand 10.x on the same platform as this purchase.
       Use FreeHand MX for creative design, storyboarding, multipage
       document production, and editing with an unparalleled set of
       creative design tools. Easily repurpose your designs for print,
       the Internet, or Macromedia Flash.

* Workflow:
- Graphic symbols help you streamline the creation and update of
    repetitive elements across your designs. Once you ve defined an object
    or group as a symbol, you can place an instance of that symbol
    throughout your document. When edits or updates are needed, simply make
    your changes to the symbol and all instances are automatically updated.
    Instances can be transformed individually with different attributes-
    such as effects-without breaking their relationship to the parent
    symbol. Symbols are managed in the Library panel. Symbol libraries can
    also be shared across multiple documents, allowing you to store
    commonly used elements-such as logos or navigation buttons-for use in
    all your designs. Because only one definition of a graphic is stored,
    using symbols in Macromedia Flash projects creates smaller SWF files
    for faster web downloads.
- All FreeHand MX panels and non-modal dialogs share a common look, feel,
    and behavior-enhancing workflow. Panels you frequently use can be left
    open and out of the work area by docking with standard panel sets,
    making it easy to customize the interface-and make your workspace more
    efficient.
- FreeHand MX uses anti-aliasing in the standard Preview and Keyline
    drawing modes for all vector objects.
- FreeHand has been a OS X-compatible application since version 10 and is
    fully Carbonized to natively support the Macintosh OS X user interface
    improvements.

* Multipage Design and Production:
- Master pages help you speed layout and production workflow, maintain
    consistency across a design, and revise common layout elements across
    an entire project with a single edit. Master pages are as great for use
    in multipage print projects as they are in other common page-layout
    applications, but you can also use them for Macromedia Flash MX project
    backgrounds and click-through presentations for client approval.
    FreeHand MX lets you define a virtually unlimited number of master
    pages in any document. Master pages can be applied to or removed from
    any page at any time in your design process. They can even be stored in
    Symbol libraries and shared across multiple documents.
- The unique FreeHand MX multipage environment allows you to complete
    more of your design and production in a single document. No more
    designing your project parts in multiple single-page documents that you
    not only has to manage, but also open individually. With multiple
    pages, you can create multiple concepts of a design for a customer-or
    letterhead, envelope and business card designs-all in the same file, so
    you only need to send one file to the printer. FreeHand MX also offers
    intuitive page management, so you can streamline the production of
    anything from website storyboards to graphic-intensive brochures. With
    the Page tool, you can work with pages directly on the pasteboard as
    you do with objects-and move, resize, and duplicate pages without
    opening the Document inspector.
- Quickly map information architecture, data flows, and site maps with
    the Connector Lines tool. Just drag the tool to assign persistent
    relationships between objects.
- Connector Line styles let you completely customize the look of
    connectors, as well as quickly apply various appearances to give them
    different meanings in your map. For example, a solid connector might
    represent the standard path through your site, while a dashed line
    connector might represent the path when a user hasn t logged onto your
    site.

* Intuitive Design Tools:
- Create exciting 3D appearances while maintaining the editability of the
    original shape. With the Extrude tool, you can drag-out and modify
    extrudes. Once the extrude is applied, you have complete control over
    attributes, including extrusion depth, vanishing point, and lighting.
    Add further depth and realism to your designs by assigning a shared
    vanishing point to multiple extruded objects or by adding an open path
    profile to give an extrude more shape.
- Use the Eraser tool to modify paths more organically. Delete portions
    of a Vector object by brushing the Eraser tool as the way you erase
    pixels in a bitmap-editing application.
- The Blend tool enhances the already powerful blending abilities in
    FreeHand MX by providing drag-and-drop blending functions with live,
    on-screen feedback. Simply drag between objects to create blends, or
    modify existing blends by dragging between points on a blended object.
- The FreeHand MX Pen tool melds the standard Pen tool behaviors found in
    Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Fireworks with the traditional pen
    gestures familiar to experienced illustrators. The Pen tool also now
    includes a rubber-banding feature which previews the next line segment
    as you move the Pen tool within the workspace.
- Work directly and intuitively with paths. The Freeform tool is
    particularly effective for creating organic forms by "freeforming" a
    simple object, such as a circle or rectangle. If you are a new user,
    the Freeform tool is a more approachable way to learn about Bezier
    controls. The Freeform tool enables you to pull anywhere on a path to
    reshape it, push the path to reshape it, or use the Reshape Area option
    for finer control over the part you re reshaping.
- Achieve custom illustration effects that are easily updated. Add an
    instance or a series of instances along a path and control its
    behavior. Or go beyond a standard thickness of stroke by applying a
    symbol to a path as a single distorted object-you can even apply a
    spray of symbols to the path. Apply brush strokes to any FreeHand MX
    path to distribute a graphic symbol instance on the path, either by
    repeating the strokes or stretching them along the path s length. You
    can control the way instances behave as well as stack multiple
    instances on a path.

* Design Power:
- Add more visual punch to your designs and illustrations-apply unlimited
    stroke, fill, and effect attributes to a single vector or text object
    while maintaining editability of the base object. Multiple attributes
    eliminate the need to stack duplicates of an object to create a
    particular appearance, making updates easier, faster, and with fewer
    objects to manage. You can even build attributes on top of groups and
    symbols, making it fast and easy to apply such visual effects as blurs
    and drop shadows to entire sections of a design at once.
- Maximize creative expression with live effects, which apply complex
    distortions and effects without altering the original object. FreeHand
    MX includes such vector effects as bend, sketch, and transform-as well
    as bevel, drop shadow, and gradient transparency raster effects. The
    Object panel allows you complete control over effects, as well as to
    all or selected object attributes.
- Quickly and easily reshape rectangles, ellipses, and polygons while
    maintaining the control and editability of FreeHand MX graphic
    primitives. You can easily round rectangle corners or mix them concave
    or convex, convert ellipses to arcs, and change polygons to stars with
    an editable numbers of points.
- Support for alpha channels allows you to seamlessly integrate images
    containing transparency into your designs. FreeHand MX provides full
    import and display support of 32-bit image formats.
- FreeHand MX was the first high-end, PostScript-based drawing program to
    offer true, dynamic transparency capabilities while preserving
    documents in an editable vector format. Transparent lenses are one of
    the standard fill types available in FreeHand MX. You can set
    transparency attributes, such as shape, location, opacity, and color.
    Dynamically change the opacity and color fill of an object to reveal
    objects behind the lens-filled object. Or show transparency effects
    only in the overlapping object areas.
- FreeHand MX offers the best way to represent 3D media in a 2D drawing
    environment. The perspective grid puts your artwork into perspective in
    seconds: just set up background-perspective grid-guides with infinitely
    adjustable vanishing points and horizon lines, allowing for 3D effects
    in a familiar illustration environment. Snap any vector object to the
    grid, creating accurate perspective views. Objects automatically scale
    as they are moved toward the vanishing points, and change perspective
    as you move them up and down the grid. Once objects are attached to the
    grid, you can change the grid layout and perspective, automatically
    updating objects on the grid to match the new perspective.
- With FreeHand MX, you can use object-based handles to rotate, scale,
    skew, or move graphics directly, without having to select different
    tools for each transform. To bring up interactive transform handles,
    simply double-click any object or selection of multiple objects with
    the Pointer tool. When you have finished your move, double-click again
    to turn the transform handles off.

* Productivity:
- Quickly inspect and change object and text properties-such as stroke,
    fill, font, or effect-in one centralized location with the FreeHand MX
    Object panel. In addition, the Object panel provides localized stacking
    control of multiple attributes for unlimited, unique visual
    appearances. Drag and drop between the Object and Styles panels to
    create, edit, and redefine graphic and text styles.
- Use the Output Area tool to define a single area for print or export
    within the workspace for a document. Great for proofing portions of a
    design, the output area can incorporate selected areas of existing
    pages, as well as selected areas of the pasteboard. After you define
    the output area, you can resize or delete it, or view its dimensions in
    the Object panel. When you save a document, the export area is saved as
    part of the document attributes.
- Select an object or an instance of a symbol and replace it with a
    symbol from within the library.

* Animation:
- Create animation without a timeline by using layers as a series of
    frames in an animation. The Release to Layers feature ungroups blends
    or objects attached to a path and assigns each ungrouped object to a
    layer in consecutive order. Use Release to Layers on groups, blends,
    text, and objects, or text attached to a path.
- With the Release to Layers feature, you can quickly build animations
    for Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe
    AfterEffects with frame-by-frame animation effects. You choose how
    objects are distributed across layers, depending on the desired effect.
    You can sequence objects for a standard animation, build to create an
    additive effect, drop for a subtractive effective, or trail for a
    motion effect.

* Effects:
- Gradient fill types and added controls in FreeHand MX allow you to
    create complex-looking fills based on simple gradients. You can now
    choose rectangle- and cone-shaped gradients along with the standard
    linear, radial, logarithmic, and contour types. For added visual
    effects, choose to repeat or reflect a gradient fill a defined number
    of times within the span of the gradient fill handles. Or choose auto
    size to quickly set the gradient to the width and height of the object-
    and automatically update it as you edit.
- Edit the appearance of gradient fills directly in the workspace.
    Gradient fill handles provide precise interactive control of the
    gradient directly within the object.
- Get a more fluid and natural look to your brushed paths. The rounded
    corners brush method wraps around corners and sharp angles.
- Create modifiable calligraphy on the fly. Assign shaped, angled strokes
    to a path with this attribute, creating an illustrative, calligraphy-
    style tip to defined paths.

* Macromedia Flash Integration:
- Easily assign complex Macromedia Flash ActionScript navigation
    commands. Just drag and drop a link between objects, symbols, and pages
    to quickly produce click-throughs for client approval, presentations,
    and sophisticated Macromedia Flash projects. Assign such simple actions
    as Go To and Play or Go To and Stop or more complex behaviors like Get
    URL or Load External Movie.
- Now you can import more complex Macromedia Flash movies (SWFs) into
    your FreeHand MX document and integrate them into your designs before
    exporting back out to SWF. Great for developing larger site interfaces
    and designs in FreeHand MX while still being able to include components
    that include more programming-intensive functions for e-commerce, video
    streaming, or Flash Communications.
- Work more productively between programs with a launch-and-edit workflow
    between FreeHand MX and Macromedia Flash. SWFs placed in a FreeHand MX
    document can be edited in Macromedia Flash with a click in the Object
    panel. Updates made to the FLA file in Macromedia Flash are
    automatically applied to the SWF placed in FreeHand MX.
- Macromedia Flash can now open and import FreeHand MX files while   
    preserving the editability of vectors and text-and streamline the
    production process as projects move from design to development and
    programming.
- Use the Navigation panel to assign navigation action to objects for
    export to HTML or Macromedia Flash. The Navigation panel streamlines
    your workflow by letting you apply Internet links and Macromedia Flash
    actions to graphics and text from within FreeHand MX. For Macromedia
    Flash production, use the panel to assign event handlers, actions, and
    parameters. Available actions include Go To and Stop, Go To and Play,
    Get URL, Play and Stop, Print, Full Screen, Start/Stop Drag,
    Load/Unload Movie, and Tell Target.
- Create rich web-native print applications for printing from Macromedia
    Flash Player within any browser. FreeHand MX and Macromedia Flash offer
    a technology that bridges the Internet and printers with web-native
    applications that have screen and print components. Lay out rich print
    designs in the flexible multipage FreeHand MX environment, and import
    into Macromedia Flash to create compelling cross-media applications.
- Fireworks opens and imports FreeHand MX files, preserving the
    editability of vectors and text-and streamlining the design and
    production workflow.
- FreeHand MX can import Fireworks PNG files, maintaining the editability
    of objects, text, and live effects.
- FreeHand MX enhances the launch and edit workflow between FreeHand MX
    and Fireworks. Bitmap images placed in a FreeHand MX document can be
    edited and optimized in Fireworks with a single click in the Object
    panel. You can choose to edit the bitmap or an original Fireworks MX
    PNG file for increased editability. Updates made to the PNG file in
    Fireworks are automatically applied to the bitmap placed in FreeHand
    MX.