Setting up Your Document > Creating and opening documents

 

Creating and opening documents

Using menu commands, you can create new documents from scratch or based on a template. To learn how to create and edit templates, see Using templates.

You can open a multipage document, make changes to it, and then save the document. The four most recently saved documents appear in the File menu for easy access. When you quit FreeHand, you have a chance to review any unsaved documents.

You can set document preferences to determine the view and page placement a document will have when it's opened. For more information on setting preferences, see Using preferences.

In addition to opening FreeHand documents, FreeHand 10 can open files of many other types, including Adobe Illustrator files, versions 1.1 through 9.

To create a new document, do one of the following:

Choose File > New.

Click the New button in the Main toolbar.

To open an existing document:

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Choose File > Open or click the Open button in the Main toolbar.

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Locate the file to open, and click Open.

To switch between open documents:

Choose Window and the name of the document to display.

Note: On the Macintosh, you can also click the FreeHand icon in the title bar to select the document name.

To close a file and quit FreeHand:

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Choose File > Exit (Windows) or File > Quit (Macintosh).

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If you have not yet saved or named the file, an alert dialog box appears. To save the file, click Review, and then click Yes (Windows) or Save (Macintosh).

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Enter a name in the Name text box (if needed), and click Save.

For more information on saving files, see Saving and exporting files overview.

To set preferences that affect how FreeHand handles documents:

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Choose Edit > Preferences. Click Document.

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Do one or more of the following:

Select Restore View when Opening Document to open a document at the same magnification as when it was last saved.

Select Remember Window Size and Location to open a document in the same window size and at the same location as when it was last saved.

Enter a template name in the New Document Template text box to base new documents on that template. For more information on using templates, see Using templates.

Select Always Review Unsaved Documents upon Exit (Windows) or Always Review Unsaved Documents upon Quit (Macintosh) to review and save each open document when quitting the application.

Select Search for Missing Links (Macintosh) to locate broken links to graphics.

Click Defaults to restore your default preferences.

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Click OK.