Color, Strokes, and Fills > Applying strokes

 

Applying strokes

You can apply five different stroke, or outline, styles to objects in FreeHand—Basic, Custom, Pattern, PostScript, and Brush. A stroke of None is transparent.

Use the Stroke inspector to apply strokes to selected objects or to set the default stroke attributes for new objects in the active document. You can choose from preset stroke widths, or you can change the preset widths using preferences.

For more information on applying colors to strokes, see Applying color in FreeHand.

To set default stroke attributes for new objects:

1

Choose Edit > Select > None to deselect all objects in the document.

2

Choose Window > Inspectors > Stroke to display the Stroke inspector.

Stroke inspector
 

3

Set the stroke attributes you want applied to new objects.

To edit the list of preset stroke widths:

1

Choose Edit > Preferences. Click Object.

2

In the Default Line Weights text box, enter the values in points. Separate values with a space.

3

Click OK.

4

Relaunch FreeHand for the changes to take effect.