FREEHAND 5.0 README 

As you begin using FreeHand you will notice many excellent 
additions that put the fun back into illustration. We can't
resist improving FreeHand up until the last minute, and since
our goal is to keep you informed of our product so that you can 
make the best of it, we've included below some important 
information you might need.

INSTALLING THE CD VERSION OF FREEHAND
When installing FreeHand, look in the "FreeHand" directory
on the CD drive and double-click on "setup.exe."

WIN32S MESSAGE WHILE INSTALLING FREEHAND
If you are running Win95 (Chicago) or Windows NT, ignore 
any message you receive to install Win32s.

LAUNCHING FREEHAND ON WIN32S
If a "Win32s - Error" message is received at launch, the 
Win32s system needs to be installed by running the 
"setup.exe" from the "fh5\win32s\disk1" directory. Win32s is 
a Microsoft product that is applied by running its own 
installer. The Win32s install disk images are obtained by 
running the FreeHand 5.0 Standard or Custom install options. 
After Win32s is installed, the Win32s directory in fh5 
(containing the disk images) can be deleted to free hard drive 
space. Disk images are not the actual Win32s system.

TERMINATING FREEHAND IN WIN32S
Per Microsoft documentation, do not use Ctrl + Alt + Del to 
terminate a Win32s-based application because you will exit 
Windows.

INSTALLING FREEHAND 5.0 OVER A NETWORK
FreeHand 5.0 can be installed over a network, for 
organizations that purchase multiple copies. Drag the files 
from each installation disk into a directory on your network 
hard disk. Double-click or run "setup.exe" to begin the 
installation.

FREEHAND FILE LIST
If you wish to discard any of the FreeHand files, there is a 
complete list of all the files FreeHand installed in "logfile.txt" 
in the "c:\fh5" directory. 

LAUNCHING FREEHAND 5.0
The first time you launch FreeHand, you will be asked to enter 
your name, company and serial number, so have that 
information ready. The serial number can be found on your 
registration card.

PREFERENCES
The FreeHand Preferences file named "fhprefs.txt" is located 
in the "c:\fh5" directory. To restore the default preferences, 
simply delete the preferences file and launch FreeHand.

USERPREP FILES
UserPrep files are included to make printing to certain 
PostScript devices easier. Look in the directory 
"c:\fh5\usenglsh\userprep" and glance through the UserPrep 
readme file named "readme.txt" to find out more about this 
feature.

PS2MAC PROGRAM
Included with FreeHand is a program that allows Windows 
FreeHand files to print across Macintosh printer drivers (to 
imagesetters). See the readme file named "ps2mac.txt" in the 
"c:\fh5" directory for more information.

DISABLING AUTO-EXPANDING TEXT BLOCKS
TO APPLY TEXT ALIGNMENT
Issue:
When FreeHand 5.0 is installed for the first time, it enables a 
number of new features and updates from FreeHand 4.0. One 
of these new features is the "Auto-Expanding Text Container." 
This feature allows text blocks to automatically resize as text 
is added or removed. This feature is especially useful when 
titling both horizontally and vertically. There are tradeoffs, 
however, in that you cannot apply alignment afterward.

Solution:
An auto-expanding FreeHand 5 text block can be turned into a 
FreeHand 4 style text box in one of three ways:

a) Reselect the text box and double-click the two "hollow" (or 
white) anchor points on the right and bottom boundaries of the 
box. This allows you to manipulate the text box as though it 
were a fixed size text block created by clicking and dragging 
the text tool.

b) Select the text box with the pointer tool. In the Object 
Inspector, click the right expanding button and the downward 
expanding button, both located to the right of the width and 
height measurements, so that they are no longer highlighted. 
This produces the same effect as method "a" above.

c) To disable auto-expanding text blocks as a default, go to the 
Preferences dialog box. Select the category "Editing/Text," 
and deselect the box that says "New default-sized text 
containers Auto-Expand." This disables the auto-expanding 
text block feature, causing all new text containers to behave as 
they would in FreeHand 4.

USER MANUAL REFERENCE TO TRANSFORM 
PALETTE USER INTERFACE
Please note that the FreeHand 5.0 User Manual shows only the 
Macintosh version of the Transform palette user interface. In 
FreeHand for Macintosh, the Transform palette's command 
button reads "Apply" for every function (rotating, moving, 
scaling, skewing, and reflecting). In the Windows version, the 
Transform palette's command button corresponds to its 
function and reads "Rotate," "Move," "Scale," "Skew," and 
"Reflect," respectively. The Windows Getting Started tutorial 
supports the Windows user interface.

TEXT EDITOR
Please note that the Text Editor box has no check box for 12-
point black as the Online Help suggests. The text will always 
display the Windows default font (usually Arial).

XTRAS SHORTCUT KEY
Use of the shortcut key to repeat an Xtra (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + 
X) conflicts with the preference that instructs FreeHand to 
consume original paths. If you select "Path operations 
consume original paths" under "Preferences" and if you use 
the above shortcut key to repeat a path operation ("Intersect," 
for example), your object(s) will maintain both the original 
and the new path. This happens because holding down the 
"Shift" key while performing a path operation tells FreeHand 
to temporarily ignore the preference to consume paths. Since 
the "Shift" key is also part of the command to repeat an Xtra, 
we recommend that you access the path operation through the 
Xtras menu to maintain your paths preference.

OPENING CORELDRAW (CDR) FILES
FreeHand 5 is the first major drawing application that can 
open and convert files created with CorelDraw 5. While 
FreeHand does a good job at converting most CorelDraw 
elements, you should be aware that the conversion process 
is not perfect, and you are bound to come across files that 
do not convert exactly into FreeHand. In fact, since 
FreeHand and CorelDraw do not have an exact feature set 
correspondence, a perfect conversion of every file will never 
be possible. Nevertheless, for the future we are committed 
to improving the conversion process, and expect to support 
even more components of CorelDraw 5 and CorelDraw 6 
files.

To summarize: paths, text, colors, strokes, and the most 
commonly used fills convert exactly into FreeHand with no 
noticeable differences. But certain other effects and 
information, including the more esoteric fills which have no 
FreeHand counterparts, will not appear in FreeHand.

For your reference, we have included this list of known file 
conversion limitations. We hope that being aware of these 
issues will help you determine which of your files will make 
the transition from CorelDraw most easily.

* 3D objects with a light source applied convert with solid 
fills.
* Style and layer information does not convert.
* Custom arrowheads convert to a standard FreeHand 
arrowhead.
* Colors do not automatically appear in FreeHand's Color 
palette. Using FreeHand's "Name All Colors" command will 
add them.
* Radial fills convert as centered radial fills.
* Multicolor fills convert as two-color fills.
* Powerlines and lens effects convert as solid fills.
* Bitmapped textures, pattern fills, PostScript fills, and 
conical fills convert as objects without fills.
* Text on a path converts as a path and a text object. To 
rejoin these in FreeHand, select both the text container and 
the path, and choose "Bind To Path" from the Type menu. 
This semi-automatic approach was taken since FreeHand's 
superior typography will usually result in different text flows 
around the path, requiring manual adjustment.
* Columns, tabs, underlines, text style sheets, some special 
characters, indenting, and enveloped text convert as text 
without those attributes. As with text on a path, this semi-
automatic approach was taken because FreeHand's 
attention to typographic details usually result in different
line breaks than CorelDraw, requiring some manual attention.
* Embedded BMP's, TIFF's, and EPS's convert as objects 
with no fill.
* Guides and masked objects (paste insides) do not convert.

PLACING COREL 5 FILES CONTAINING COREL 
CLIPART
You may experience a message that reads "Error writing to 
device AUX" when placing Corel 5 files containing Corel 
Clipart. Windows is trying to generate a debug message
for the programmer's benefit. Save your work and restart
Windows.

EMBEDDED FREEHAND 5.0 OLE OBJECTS
FreeHand does not support embedded FreeHand 5.0 OLE data 
in other applications under Windows NT. However, FreeHand 
does support this data under Win32s.

APPEARANCE OF CGM FILES
When you open or place CGM files in FreeHand, filled 
objects with a small stroke of the same color appear to have a 
stroke of a different color; the stroke and the fill are actually 
the same color. This is due to the dithering of the color of the 
stroke. At high magnifications the color no longer dithers, so 
the stroke and the fill appear the same. If you select the stroke 
color and drop it into the Color Mixer well, it will have the 
same CMYK values as the fill color. Furthermore, printing the 
document yields a stroke and a fill of the same color.

POSTSCRIPT PRINTING REMINDER
Remember that when you send a file to a PostScript printer, 
all units of measure convert to points. Rounding problems 
may occur when formatting a page in other units of measure 
(mm, inches, etc.). For example, a set of dashes that the user 
specifies as being a 10 mm dash will round to the nearest 
point on output to any PS printer.

LINOTRONIC IMAGESETTERS
FreeHand may show the following PostScript error when used 
with a Linotronic Imagesetter.

%%invalid access[offending command: put] for postscript 
level 1 Rips
%%invalid access[offending command: findfont] for 
postscript level 2 Rips

To fix this, re-download all the fonts to the RIP's hard drive 
using the Linotronic Font downloader 2.5.4 (or the most 
recent version). (This has to be done only once.) Be sure to 
use the TIME button instead of SPACE.

Linotronic Imagesetters using the RIP 60 may cause the 
yellow plate to posterize upon separation. To correct this 
problem, set the maximum color steps to 255 in the Output 
Options dialog box.

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