Use FreeHand MX for
creative design, storyboarding, multipage document production, and editing with
an unparalleled set of creative design tools. Easily repurpose your designs
for print, the Internet, or Macromedia Flash MX.

• Multiple Attributes
  
  
  Add more visual punch to your designs and illustrations?apply unlimited
  stroke, fill, and effect attributes to a single vector or text object while
  maintaining editability of the base object. Multiple attributes eliminate
  the need to stack duplicates of an object to create a particular appearance,
  making updates easier, faster, and with fewer objects to manage.
  
  
  
  


• Live Effects
  
  Maximize creative expression with live effects, which apply complex distortions
  and effects without altering the original object. FreeHand MX includes such
  vector effects as bend, sketch, and transform?as well as bevel, drop
  shadow, and gradient transparency raster effects. The Object panel allows
  you complete control over effects, as well as to all or selected object attributes.
  
  
  
  



• Live-Edit Graphic Primitives
  
  Quickly and easily reshape rectangles, ellipses, and polygons while maintaining
  the control and editability of FreeHand MX graphic primitives. You can easily
  round rectangle corners or mix them concave or convex, convert ellipses to
  arcs, and change polygons to stars with editable numbers of points.
  
  
  
  


• Image Alpha-Channel Support
  
  Support for alpha channels allows you to seamlessly integrate images containing
  transparency into your designs. FreeHand MX provides full import and display
  support of 32-bit image formats.
  
  
  
  
  


• Vector Transparency
  
  FreeHand MX was the first high-end, PostScript-based drawing program to offer
  true, dynamic transparency capabilities while preserving documents in an editable
  vector format. Transparent lenses are one of the standard fill types available
  in FreeHand MX.
  
  
  
  


• Perspective Grid
  
  
  FreeHand MX offers the best way to represent 3D media in a 2D drawing environment.
  The perspective grid puts your artwork into perspective in seconds: just set
  up background-perspective grid-guides with infinitely adjustable vanishing
  points and horizon lines, allowing for 3D effects in a familiar illustration
  environment.
  
  
  
  


• Interactive Transforms
  
  With FreeHand MX, you can use object-based handles to rotate, scale, skew,
  or move graphics directly, without having to select different tools for each
  transform. To bring up interactive transform handles, simply double-click
  any object or selection of multiple objects with the Pointer tool. When you?ve
  finished your move, double-click again to turn the transform handles off.