User Guide

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Click a pattern in the lower right corner of the inspector. Use the slider to scroll

through the available patterns.

To edit a pattern stroke:

1 In the Stroke inspector, choose Pattern from the list.

2 Choose a color for the stroke.

3 Choose a pattern, using the slider at the bottom of the inspector to scroll the

pattern list. The chosen pattern appears in the preview windows.

Pattern preview in the Stroke inspector

4 Drag or click pixel-by-pixel in the left preview. Clicking a pixel toggles between

black (opaque, in the selected color) and white (transparent).

5 Select Clear to remove a pattern from the preview window.

6 Click Invert to reverse pixel color—from color to white or from white to color.

Applying Postscript strokes

PostScript applies a stroke with a unique pattern and shape that you create in the

PostScript code entry text box. FreeHand sends the PostScript code to the

PostScript Interpreter in your printer’s Raster Image Processor (RIP). If your code

is incorrect, you will receive a PostScript error message when printing.