Features

Graphic symbols help you streamline the creation and update of repetitive elements across your designs. Once you’ve defined an object or group as a symbol, you can place an instance of that symbol throughout your document. When edits or updates are needed, simply make your changes to the symbol and all instances are automatically updated. Instances can be transformed individually with different attributes—such as effects—without breaking their relationship to the parent symbol.

Symbols are managed in the Library panel. Symbol libraries can also be shared across multiple documents, allowing you to store commonly used elements—such as logos or navigation buttons—for use in all your designs.

Because only one definition of a graphic is stored, using symbols in Macromedia Flash projects creates smaller SWF files for faster web downloads.

All FreeHand MX panels and non-modal dialogs share a common look, feel, and behavior-enhancing workflow. Panels you frequently use can be left open and out of the work area by docking with standard panel sets, making it easy to customize the interface—and make your workspace more efficient.

FreeHand MX uses anti-aliasing in the standard Preview and Keyline drawing modes for all vector objects (this feature is not available on Macintosh OS 9.x).

Native Microsoft Windows XP.

FreeHand has been a OS X-compatible application since version 10 and is fully Carbonized to natively support the Macintosh OS X user interface improvements.