As you begin to use the FreeHand 5.0 Demo you will notice many excellent additions that put the fun back into illustration. This demo version allows you to explore most of the functionality in FreeHand 5.0 with the following exceptions:
-- Save, Save As, Export and Publish are disabled.
-- Color library support, Spelling and Hyphenation are disabled.
-- You can copy and paste within FreeHand, but you can't copy out to the Finder.
-- When you print, a small banner will stretch across the top and bottom of your page.
When you purchase FreeHand 5.0 you will get many additional items that couldn't be included in the demo version:
COLOR LIBRARIES
Including Crayon, DIC, Focoltone, Grays, Munsell, TOYO, TruMatch and Pantone.
DICTIONARY FILES
Language files for spelling and hyphenation.
FONTS
A selection of fonts from several font families.
ON-LINE HELP
For easy access to Help information from within FreeHand.
PPDs
Over 100 PPDs for the most popular laser printers.
USERPREP FILES
UserPrep files make printing to certain PostScript devices easier, and provide additional features for specific printers.
SNAP SOUNDS
Sounds you can add to your System that give subtle audio feedback while using FreeHand drawing tools.
FULL DOCUMENTATION
Including a Getting Started Manual (containing a Tutorial), User Manual and Commercial Printing Guide.
We hope you enjoy exploring this demo version of FreeHand 5.0 and look forward to having you join us as a registered user!
FreeHand 5.0 Demo can be installed directly from the Macromedia Showcase CD. Double-click the Installer and choose a destination on your hard disk.
PREFERENCES
The FreeHand Preferences file is located in the Preferences folder in your System folder (System 7), or in the root directory of the System folder (System 6). To use the default preferences, simply delete the preferences file and launch FreeHand.
XTRAS
The Xtras folder holds all the Xtra features shipped with FreeHand 5.0. If you plan to make use of Illustrator Plug-Ins¬ you can place them directly in the Xtras folder, or simply make an alias of the Illustrator Plug-Ins¬ folder and place it in the Xtras folder. FreeHand will ╥look inside╙ folders that are within the Xtras folder.
ADOBE TYPE MANAGER 3.5
If you are using ATM 3.0 or earlier, you may get incorrect ╥error╙ messages when converting text to paths. Upgrading to ATM 3.5 or later will correct this problem.
HP DESKWRITERS
Color text printed from FreeHand to an HP DeskWriter color-capable printer may print as black. The problem occurs with the DW Series 6.0 driver and earlier versions. Colored text using a PostScript font suffers from this problem. To correct this, you may use a TrueType font or convert the colored text to paths.
LINOTRONIC IMAGESETTERS
FreeHand 5.0 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 RIPs hard drive using Linotronic Font Downloader 2.5.4 (or the most recent version). Be sure to use the TIME button instead of SPACE.
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