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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.

Textured fills

PostScript.

Appears as an opaque pattern of C's onscreen, and prints as indicated by the preview in the Fill inspector.

Tiled fills

PostScript and non-PostScript.

Transparent. Objects behind them appear through the spaces in the pattern.