User Guide

FreeHand Basics 81

To choose a drawing mode:

Choose an option from the Drawing Mode pop-up menu in the Status toolbar

(Windows) or in the lower left of the Document window (Macintosh):

• Preview displays the document as it will print. (You can’t preview custom,

PostScript, or textured strokes and ﬁlls.)

• Fast Preview displays blends with reduced steps and dimmed text.

• Keyline displays only a black hairline stroke, no ﬁll for objects, and X-boxes, or

blank boxes containing an X for placement purposes, for EPS images and

bitmap images.

• Fast Keyline displays blends with reduced steps and dimmed text.

• Flash Anti-alias smooths onscreen text and artwork, previewing the artwork as

it will appear when exported in Macromedia Flash (SWF) format.

Note: This mode does not smooth pattern and PostScript fills and strokes, some other

fills (tiled, custom, textured, and lens fills other than simple transparency), dashed

strokes, or text effects, bitmap fonts, or locked outline fonts.

From left to right: Preview, Fast Preview, Flash Anti-alias, Keyline, Fast Keyline.