Your copy of Freeway 1.0 can be registered either using the registration form included in the Freeway installer or on the SoftPress Web site. Please use the Offer code/Serial number given below to register your software:
Offer code/Serial number: CM102600
When you have registered Freeway 1.0.2 you automatically qualify for a 33% discount off the recommended retail price of Freeway 3.0. This represents an amazing saving of £65!
For details of how to take advantage of this special offer, please see "HOW TO ORDER" below.
Educational users: You are entitled to a 50% discount off the recommended retail price which means you can buy Freeway 3.0 for just £99.50! You will be required to provide educational proof such as a student card or order confirmation on school or college letterhead (please fax to our UK office on 01993 883970).
WHAT'S NEW IN FREEWAY 3.0?
You can check out the current version of Freeway by trying our fully-working 30-day demo. This is also available on our Web site. In Freeway 3.0 we introduced many new features - to give you a head start here's a summary of the main things to look for:
• Major productivity improvements - up to 10 times faster for larger sites
• Improved user interface
• Rollover editor which allows JavaScript rollovers to be created easily and intuitively
• Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files can be imported directly into Freeway
• Use Photoshop plug-ins to import and export non-native graphic formats
• Use Photoshop scanner plug-ins to scan images directly to the Freeway page
• Preview QuickTime and Flash content
• Freeway Actions capabilities extended including built-In JavaScript interpreter
• Enhanced library of Freeway Actions - 25 Actions now provided with Freeway CD
• New Link map
• Link checking
• Basic support for AppleScript
• Support for Apple's WorldScript technology facilitates multilingual site production
Some of these are described in more detail below (see "FREEWAY 3.0 FEATURES").
HOW TO ORDER
You must order the Freeway 3.0 upgrade from our secure online store at:
http://www.softpress.com/shop/
• Make sure you go to "SECURE SERVER 2" as the offer is only available on that page.
• Select "Freeway Upgrade" from the product list, and select either "1.0 (to 3.0 Boxed)" or "1.0 (to 3.0 Download)". Enter the special offer code in the box provided. The offer code is at the top of this file.
* If you qualify for an educational discount, please also check the box marked "Academic Discount".
* Fill in the remainder of the order form and you will qualify for the SPECIAL UPGRADE PRICE.
If you prefer, you can telephone us and leave your details on one of our free sales numbers. We will be happy to call you back and take your order.
US: 1 800 853 6454
UK: 0800 731 3425
If you are elsewhere in the world, you can call our UK number:
+44 1993 882588
Please email sales@softpress.com if you have any further questions.
LIMITATIONS
You can only take advantage of this offer by buying direct from the SoftPress web site. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
FREEWAY 3.0 FEATURES
Here are some of the main features to look out for in Freeway 3.0:
• DTP-STYLE CONTROL OF LAYOUT AND TYPOGRAPHY
Freeway has a familiar "Page and Pasteboard" environment and a rich set of DTP-style layout tools and typographic controls. If you use DTP applications like QuarkXPress you'll feel comfortable from the first time you start a Web site with Freeway - even down to the keyboard shortcuts. Free-form layout is a breeze in Freeway with a wealth of layout tools including transformations, zoom, guide and ruler features - all with both graphical and numeric controls for accurate positioning. Content can be placed in overlapping boxes - text on graphic, text on text, graphic on graphic, even text on animated GIFs!
• MULTILINGUAL SITE PRODUCTION
Freeway 3 offers new capabilities in multilingual Web site production. The new version supports Apple's WorldScript technology and users can select from a wide range of language encodings for individual pages in a site. Text can be rendered in HTML or as bitmapped graphics for languages as diverse as Japanese (including vertical text), Chinese and Russian.
• HTML 4.0 LAYOUT
Freeway 3 offers the option of using CSS2 layers, which are supported in all fourth-generation browsers. This new feature gives designers greater breadth of layout design, for example the ability to overlay HTML text on graphic objects and to move, show, or hide page elements interactively.
• MULTIPLE MASTER PAGES
Designing a Web site using Master pages is one of the keys to the amazing level of productivity that can be achieved with Freeway. Master Pages are used for repeating features such as layout, navigation bars, page backgrounds and graphic elements.
• PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS - up to 10 times faster
Freeway's integrated approach to Web design has always offered major productivity advantages over other Web programs. In Freeway 3, these advantages have been boosted through speed enhancements and basic scripting capabilities. The speed of opening and editing large Freeway files has been increased in some cases by a factor of ten.
Freeway 3 also contains limited support for AppleScript, allowing common tasks to be automated.
• LINK MAP AND LINK CHECKING
Freeway 3's new link map provides a complete overview of the hyperlinks which connect each page in a site, making it easy for web designers to develop good site navigation. Freeway 3 also has a link-checking feature which will check external links (Freeway automatically ensures that internal site links are correct).
• FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Define flexible page elements that stretch to take up unused room in the browser window. The combination of automatic page centering and right alignment with these flexible items means that you can easily create Web pages that truly take advantage of the browser environment.
• FINE TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN AND HIGH-END WORD PROCESSING
You can create typographic elements in any font for headlines, banners and captions. Any text on the Web page can be designated for conversion to anti-aliased GIF bitmaps AND it remains always editable. Fine typography is assured with Freeway's extensive set of typographic controls which would be at home in any professional DTP package. Styled type elements can be overlapped with each other or with graphics to easily produce stunning layouts.
• CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Freeway gives you simple access to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which provide real typographic control over HTML text. You can precisely control letter and word spacing, indents, leading, type size and justification, and exploit new text effects for greater interactivity.
• OPTIMIZE GRAPHICS WITHOUT USING ANOTHER APPLICATION
In Freeway you can dynamically reduce the number of colors in GIF images and control JPEG compression levels - all with a real-time WYSIWYG view of image quality and numerical feedback of the image size in bytes. If you use other visual Web-design programs, you have to perform this task in a separate image-processing application.
Freeway can also import TIFF, EPS, PICT, BMP, JPEG, GIF, and PNG images - which are automatically down-sampled and converted to the correct Web format.
• GRAPHICS, QUICKTIME AND FLASH CONTENT
Freeway 3 extends Freeway's powerful graphic and multimedia capabilities. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files can be imported directly into Freeway, where they are automatically converted into Web-ready formats. Freeway can also use Photoshop plug-ins to import (and export) a wide range of non-native graphic formats, and works with Photoshop scanner plug-ins to allow images to be scanned directly onto a page! A new multimedia preview feature combined with an extended set of behavior options for QuickTime and Flash content gives users greater flexibility and control in incorporating multimedia in Web pages.
• FREEWAY ACTIONS TECHNOLOGY
With new customizable Actions, it's easy to integrate complex scripting and back-end functionality into Freeway, and simplify the creation and management of dynamic, interactive Web sites. There is a growing library of Actions from which you can simply select and use objects which contain pre-programmed scripts and coding. Freeway 3 is supplied with a starter pack of Actions to provide a useful range of pre-packaged functions. SoftPress constantly adds new Actions to a library which is freely available from the SoftPress Web site.
For Action authors, the control over the HTML output and the ability to design an intuitive, visual interface for the new HTML functionality makes this new feature of Freeway extremely powerful and flexible. Actions offer the same benefits for the development and maintenance of scripting as Master pages do for layout - the developer only needs to maintain one instance of the code in the Freeway Action text file instead of managing code fragments across every page. Any changes to a Freeway Action are automatically incorporated when documents are opened and published.
• BUIT-IN JAVASCRIPT INTERPRETER FOR ACTIONS
In Freeway 3 the user interface for Actions has been improved, and Actions can now be written in JavaScript, which allows the development of complex and sophisticated scripts.
• ROLLOVER EDITING
Freeway 3 contains a rollover editor which allows JavaScript rollovers to be created easily and intuitively. Rollovers are created directly within a page, without the user having to prepare and import separate images for each rollover state. As is the case with other graphic elements within Freeway, rollovers can be created from text, graphics, or combinations of text and graphics. And rollover text (like all graphic text made in Freeway) remains editable at all times.
• FRAMES
The Freeway implementation of Frames is a joy to use with the Frames palette providing access to predefined framesets and displaying a graphical representation of a new frameset. Freeway also allows you to view and edit the source pages live while working within the frameset page.
• TABLES SUPPORT
Define HTML tables to tabulate text, graphics, multimedia elements and other Web content on the page. You can create complex tables and modify them easily using the comprehensive table design tools that are provided in Freeway.
• HTML IMPORT
Import Web sites created in other applications. A wide range of HTML content and formatting is supported and converting an existing site into a Freeway document for further development is a straightforward operation.
• FTP UPLOAD
Freeway makes quality Web-page design more accessible and easier than with any other package, and publishing your site to the Web using Freeway's FTP upload facility is a good example of just how easy. Proof your site using a local folder, then upload to your Web space with one command - Freeway always knows which files are to be updated.
If you haven't already tried Freeway 3.0 you can download a 30-day trial version from our web site at http://www.softpress.com/, or email sales@softpress.com with your postal address and we will send you a demo disk.
CONTACT DETAILS
You can reach SoftPress Systems using the following contact details:
