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Writers: Dale Crawford and Tonya Estes
Editors: Mary Ferguson, Rosana Francescato, Rebecca Godbois, and Anne Szabla
Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato
Documentation Manager: Gary White
Production: Chris Basmajian, Aaron Begley, Caroline Branch, and Benjamin Salles
Help design and production: John Francis
Production Manager: Patrice O’Neill
Special thanks to Melana Orton, Delores Highsmith, David Spells, David Morris, and David Halpin.
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San Francisco, CA 94103
Macromedia FreeHand MX lets you manipulate objects in a number of ways. You can group objects to treat them as a single unit and nest groups within a group. You can move objects using the mouse or keyboard or by specifying a precise location. You can align objects to each other or align them to the page. You can also transform objects by rotating, scaling, skewing, and reflecting. In addition, you can alter, combine, inset, and expand paths, as well as create a clipping path, or mask, that exposes only part of an object behind it.
FreeHand provides enhanced cut-and-paste functions that let you control how objects are copied to and from your drawings. You can also clone or duplicate objects.
You can make global selections or replacements within a drawing by searching for graphics with particular attributes, such as stroke width or shape.
You can apply colors to strokes and fills several ways in Macromedia FreeHand MX: by using the Object panel, by dragging colors, by choosing colors from the pop-up color palettes on the Tools panel, and by using the Eyedropper tool to copy colors from other objects in the document.
In addition to basic colors, you can also apply a variety of advanced stroke and fill effects to objects.
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