User Guide

Appendix454
Troubleshooting printing of strokes and fills
Compatible output devices
Stroke or Fill Print to Display and Output
Basic strokes and
fills
PostScript and
non-PostScript.
Solid onscreen and in print.
Custom strokes
and fills
PostScript. Solid onscreen, but prints correctly.
In print, color appears only on the solid portions
of five of the custom fills. The background of
four of the custom fills is opaque—even if there
are spaces between repeating patterns.
Pattern strokes
and fills
Pattern strokes are
designed for use
on low- and
medium-resolution
printers, not for
output to film
recorders and
imagesetters,
because the
pattern dots
appear
much smaller on
high-resolution
output devices.
In print, color appears on the solid portions of
the pattern and transparent areas print
correctly—except for the Arrow, Braid, and Neon
stroke patterns, which are opaque.
PostScript strokes PostScript. At 72 dpi (dots per inch) onscreen and print at
a fixed resolution.
PostScript fills PostScript.
PostScript fills do
not print to
non-PostScript
printers even after
exporting
FreeHand
documents that
contain them to file
formats such as
TIFF or PICT.
Solid onscreen and print according to the
PostScript code.
In print, color appears on the solid portions of
the fill and transparent areas print correctly.
Gradient fills PostScript and
non-PostScript.
Lens fills PostScript and
non-PostScript.
As any of a variety of custom effects created
by the lens.