MODEL- ADBCD57668MC       VENDOR- ADOBE SOFTWARE
  
FEATURES- FreeHand MX for Mac- Upgrade version
       Macromedia FreeHand MX Upgrade from FreeHand 9.x. Note: To install 
        upgrade successfully, you will need a licensed version of 
        Macromedia Freehand 9.x on the same platform as this purchase. 
       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.
* Workflow:
  - Graphic symbols help you streamline the creation and update of 
    repetitive elements across your designs. Once you ve defined an object 
    or group as a symbol, you can place an instance of that symbol 
    throughout your document. When edits or updates are needed, simply make 
    your changes to the symbol and all instances are automatically updated. 
    Instances can be transformed individually with different attributes-
    such as effects-without breaking their relationship to the parent 
    symbol. Symbols are managed in the Library panel. Symbol libraries can 
    also be shared across multiple documents, allowing you to store 
    commonly used elements-such as logos or navigation buttons-for use in 
    all your designs. Because only one definition of a graphic is stored, 
    using symbols in Macromedia Flash projects creates smaller SWF files 
    for faster web downloads.
  - All FreeHand MX panels and non-modal dialogs share a common look, feel, 
    and behavior-enhancing workflow. Panels you frequently use can be left 
    open and out of the work area by docking with standard panel sets, 
    making it easy to customize the interface-and make your workspace more 
    efficient.
  - FreeHand MX uses anti-aliasing in the standard Preview and Keyline 
    drawing modes for all vector objects.
  - FreeHand has been a OS X-compatible application since version 10 and is 
    fully Carbonized to natively support the Macintosh OS X user interface 
    improvements.
* Multipage Design and Production:
  - Master pages help you speed layout and production workflow, maintain 
    consistency across a design, and revise common layout elements across 
    an entire project with a single edit. Master pages are as great for use 
    in multipage print projects as they are in other common page-layout 
    applications, but you can also use them for Macromedia Flash MX project 
    backgrounds and click-through presentations for client approval. 
    FreeHand MX lets you define a virtually unlimited number of master 
    pages in any document. Master pages can be applied to or removed from 
    any page at any time in your design process. They can even be stored in 
    Symbol libraries and shared across multiple documents.
  - The unique FreeHand MX multipage environment allows you to complete 
    more of your design and production in a single document. No more 
    designing your project parts in multiple single-page documents that you 
    not only has to manage, but also open individually. With multiple
    pages, you can create multiple concepts of a design for a customer-or
    letterhead, envelope and business card designs-all in the same file, so 
    you only need to send one file to the printer. FreeHand MX also offers 
    intuitive page management, so you can streamline the production of 
    anything from website storyboards to graphic-intensive brochures. With 
    the Page tool, you can work with pages directly on the pasteboard as 
    you do with objects-and move, resize, and duplicate pages without 
    opening the Document inspector.
  - Quickly map information architecture, data flows, and site maps with 
    the Connector Lines tool. Just drag the tool to assign persistent 
    relationships between objects.
  - Connector Line styles let you completely customize the look of 
    connectors, as well as quickly apply various appearances to give them 
    different meanings in your map. For example, a solid connector might 
    represent the standard path through your site, while a dashed line 
    connector might represent the path when a user hasn t logged onto your 
    site.
* Intuitive Design Tools:
  - Create exciting 3D appearances while maintaining the editability of the 
    original shape. With the Extrude tool, you can drag-out and modify 
    extrudes. Once the extrude is applied, you have complete control over 
    attributes, including extrusion depth, vanishing point, and lighting. 
    Add further depth and realism to your designs by assigning a shared 
    vanishing point to multiple extruded objects or by adding an open path 
    profile to give an extrude more shape.
  - Use the Eraser tool to modify paths more organically. Delete portions
    of a Vector object by brushing the Eraser tool as the way you erase 
    pixels in a bitmap-editing application.
  - The Blend tool enhances the already powerful blending abilities in  
    FreeHand MX by providing drag-and-drop blending functions with live, 
    on-screen feedback. Simply drag between objects to create blends, or 
    modify existing blends by dragging between points on a blended object.
  - The FreeHand MX Pen tool melds the standard Pen tool behaviors found in 
    Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Fireworks with the traditional pen 
    gestures familiar to experienced illustrators. The Pen tool also now 
    includes a rubber-banding feature which previews the next line segment 
    as you move the Pen tool within the workspace.
  - Work directly and intuitively with paths. The Freeform tool is 
    particularly effective for creating organic forms by "freeforming" a 
    simple object, such as a circle or rectangle. If you are a new user, 
    the Freeform tool is a more approachable way to learn about Bezier 
    controls. The Freeform tool enables you to pull anywhere on a path to 
    reshape it, push the path to reshape it, or use the Reshape Area option 
    for finer control over the part you re reshaping.
  - Achieve custom illustration effects that are easily updated. Add an 
    instance or a series of instances along a path and control its 
    behavior. Or go beyond a standard thickness of stroke by applying a 
    symbol to a path as a single distorted object-you can even apply a 
    spray of symbols to the path. Apply brush strokes to any FreeHand MX 
    path to distribute a graphic symbol instance on the path, either by 
    repeating the strokes or stretching them along the path s length. You 
    can control the way instances behave as well as stack multiple 
    instances on a path.
* Design Power:
  - 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. You can even build attributes on top of groups and 
    symbols, making it fast and easy to apply such visual effects as blurs 
    and drop shadows to entire sections of a design at once.
  - 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.
  - 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 
    an editable numbers of points.
  - 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.
  - 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. You can set 
    transparency attributes, such as shape, location, opacity, and color. 
    Dynamically change the opacity and color fill of an object to reveal 
    objects behind the lens-filled object. Or show transparency effects 
    only in the overlapping object areas.
  - 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. Snap any vector object to the 
    grid, creating accurate perspective views. Objects automatically scale 
    as they are moved toward the vanishing points, and change perspective 
    as you move them up and down the grid. Once objects are attached to the 
    grid, you can change the grid layout and perspective, automatically 
    updating objects on the grid to match the new perspective.
  - 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 have finished your move, double-click again 
    to turn the transform handles off.
* Productivity:
  - Quickly inspect and change object and text properties-such as stroke, 
    fill, font, or effect-in one centralized location with the FreeHand MX 
    Object panel. In addition, the Object panel provides localized stacking 
    control of multiple attributes for unlimited, unique visual 
    appearances. Drag and drop between the Object and Styles panels to 
    create, edit, and redefine graphic and text styles.
  - Use the Output Area tool to define a single area for print or export 
    within the workspace for a document. Great for proofing portions of a 
    design, the output area can incorporate selected areas of existing 
    pages, as well as selected areas of the pasteboard. After you define 
    the output area, you can resize or delete it, or view its dimensions in 
    the Object panel. When you save a document, the export area is saved as 
    part of the document attributes.
  - Select an object or an instance of a symbol and replace it with a 
    symbol from within the library.
* Animation:
  - Create animation without a timeline by using layers as a series of 
    frames in an animation. The Release to Layers feature ungroups blends 
    or objects attached to a path and assigns each ungrouped object to a 
    layer in consecutive order. Use Release to Layers on groups, blends, 
    text, and objects, or text attached to a path.
  - With the Release to Layers feature, you can quickly build animations 
    for Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe 
    AfterEffects with frame-by-frame animation effects. You choose how 
    objects are distributed across layers, depending on the desired effect. 
    You can sequence objects for a standard animation, build to create an 
    additive effect, drop for a subtractive effective, or trail for a 
    motion effect.
* Effects:
  - Gradient fill types and added controls in FreeHand MX allow you to 
    create complex-looking fills based on simple gradients. You can now 
    choose rectangle- and cone-shaped gradients along with the standard 
    linear, radial, logarithmic, and contour types. For added visual 
    effects, choose to repeat or reflect a gradient fill a defined number 
    of times within the span of the gradient fill handles. Or choose auto 
    size to quickly set the gradient to the width and height of the object-
    and automatically update it as you edit.
  - Edit the appearance of gradient fills directly in the workspace. 
    Gradient fill handles provide precise interactive control of the 
    gradient directly within the object.
  - Get a more fluid and natural look to your brushed paths. The rounded 
    corners brush method wraps around corners and sharp angles.
  - Create modifiable calligraphy on the fly. Assign shaped, angled strokes 
    to a path with this attribute, creating an illustrative, calligraphy-
    style tip to defined paths.
* Macromedia Flash Integration:
  - Easily assign complex Macromedia Flash ActionScript navigation 
    commands. Just drag and drop a link between objects, symbols, and pages 
    to quickly produce click-throughs for client approval, presentations, 
    and sophisticated Macromedia Flash projects. Assign such simple actions 
    as Go To and Play or Go To and Stop or more complex behaviors like Get 
    URL or Load External Movie.
  - Now you can import more complex Macromedia Flash movies (SWFs) into 
    your FreeHand MX document and integrate them into your designs before 
    exporting back out to SWF. Great for developing larger site interfaces 
    and designs in FreeHand MX while still being able to include components 
    that include more programming-intensive functions for e-commerce, video 
    streaming, or Flash Communications. 
  - Work more productively between programs with a launch-and-edit workflow
    between FreeHand MX and Macromedia Flash. SWFs placed in a FreeHand MX
    document can be edited in Macromedia Flash with a click in the Object 
    panel. Updates made to the FLA file in Macromedia Flash are 
    automatically applied to the SWF placed in FreeHand MX.
  - Macromedia Flash can now open and import FreeHand MX files while   
    preserving the editability of vectors and text-and streamline the 
    production process as projects move from design to development and 
    programming.
  - Use the Navigation panel to assign navigation action to objects for 
    export to HTML or Macromedia Flash. The Navigation panel streamlines 
    your workflow by letting you apply Internet links and Macromedia Flash 
    actions to graphics and text from within FreeHand MX. For Macromedia 
    Flash production, use the panel to assign event handlers, actions, and 
    parameters. Available actions include Go To and Stop, Go To and Play, 
    Get URL, Play and Stop, Print, Full Screen, Start/Stop Drag, 
    Load/Unload Movie, and Tell Target.
  - Create rich web-native print applications for printing from Macromedia 
    Flash Player within any browser. FreeHand MX and Macromedia Flash offer 
    a technology that bridges the Internet and printers with web-native 
    applications that have screen and print components. Lay out rich print 
    designs in the flexible multipage FreeHand MX environment, and import 
    into Macromedia Flash to create compelling cross-media applications.
  - Fireworks opens and imports FreeHand MX files, preserving the 
    editability of vectors and text-and streamlining the design and 
    production workflow.
  - FreeHand MX can import Fireworks PNG files, maintaining the editability 
    of objects, text, and live effects.
  - FreeHand MX enhances the launch and edit workflow between FreeHand MX 
    and Fireworks. Bitmap images placed in a FreeHand MX document can be 
    edited and optimized in Fireworks with a single click in the Object 
    panel. You can choose to edit the bitmap or an original Fireworks MX 
    PNG file for increased editability. Updates made to the PNG file in 
    Fireworks are automatically applied to the bitmap placed in FreeHand 
    MX.
   
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac G3+ 
              Mac OS 9.1 or higher, OS X 10.1 or higher 
              64 MB of free available system RAM (128 MB recommended) 
              70 MB of free hard disk space 
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