Setting up Your Document > Setting up your document overview

 

Setting up your document overview

When you begin your Macromedia FreeHand project, you can choose among various document settings to best meet your design and final output requirements. You use the Document inspector to set page options such as page size and orientation, bleed value, and final output resolution. You can also use the Document inspector to define custom page sizes and set the unit of measurement for your document. You can create templates to use as defaults for creating new documents. You can also create master pages to create a consistent look throughout a document.

To aid in aligning and placing objects in your documents, you can set up guides, grids, and page rulers.

You can import many formats of graphics and text into FreeHand. If you open or import a graphic that uses fonts not installed on your system, you can replace the missing fonts.

In Windows, you can quickly begin a project and simplify your workflow using FreeHand wizards, interactive screens that guide you through and simplify a variety of tasks.