User Guide

Chapter 144
Import objects
You’ll now import a graphic of a bead, which you’ll use to create a necklace. To
bring graphics or text into your document, you have three options, all of which
are probably familiar to you: dragging and dropping, using the Import command,
and cutting and pasting. For this tutorial you’ll use the Import command.
1 In the Layers panel, click the padlock icon to the left of the Head and Hands
and Body layer names to lock those layers.
2 On page 1, magnify your document view to 200%.
3 Choose File > Import.
4 In the Import Document dialog box (Windows) or Open dialog box
(Macintosh), browse to the Tutorial folder inside your FreeHand 10 application
folder and double-click Bead.fh10.
5 Click the Import pointer next to the sarcophagus, as shown in the following
illustration.
Precise placement of the bead isn’t necessary.
Work with symbols and instances
Symbols and instances let you manage repeating graphics while minimizing file
size. Instances are copies of an original FreeHand object, which is stored as a
symbol. When you modify the symbol, all instances of that symbol automatically
change to reflect the modification.