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	Features in Freeway 5 Express
	Features in Freeway 5 Express

EASY GRAPHIC EDGE EFFECTS

graphics effect demo Use the new example-driven interface to select and refine shadows, glows, edge shapes, and more—quickly!

HTML Box Background Effects

Freeway 5 can apply background effects to HTML items. This allows you to set graphic effects on HTML items that are similar to those that can be applied to graphic items (see Graphic Effects.) You can use this feature to create HTML boxes with translucent backgrounds, borders, glows, and shadows. Just like this box!

GRAPHIC TEXT EFFECTS

Create exciting edge effects, shadows and glows—even rough edges—on graphic text. You won’t need to leave Freeway, and you won’t need to modify your original artwork or create multiple versions.

EDITABLE GRAPHIC TEXT

Use any font installed on your Mac to create graphic headlines or other decorative elements. All of the effects above can be applied to the text—even on a character by character basis. Use advanced kerning, tracking, baseline shift, and more to refine your typographical message. Use any color or combination of colors you like. When you publish, a graphic will be created out of the text. The text remains editable within Freeway.

TRANSPARENCY

Freeway 5 takes the idea of a fully transparent graphic compositing engine to the next level. Any object on the page, even characters of type, can have transparency or variable opacity.

When you overlap two transparent objects, Freeway will either composite them together, or maintain them as separate layered objects in the final layout. Anti-aliasing to blend overlapping colors is automatically calculated.

UNICODE—BECAUSE IT’S NOT SUCH A SMALL, SMALL, WORLD

汉语, Русско한국어, and Ελληνικά
(Chinese, Russian, Korean, Greek)

Unicode text allows you to mix characters from many languages within a single line of text. Visitors to your site don’t need to have special fonts for each language, or to select the page language from a list—it just works. Each Unicode font can contain tens of thousands of characters or glyphs.

NEW INTERFACE

Carefully designed to make it easier to focus on your design, while keeping everything you need close at hand:
The redesigned Inspector dynamically resizes itself to present just the tools you need for the current selection
The new Site panel makes it easy to create pages or folders, and to organize your site quickly
The new configurable toolbar allows you to personalize Freeway to your own working style
Contextual pop-up menus come to life with a Control-click (or right-click on a multi-button mouse) and present the most-used options for the current selection
Scroll wheel support allows you to blaze through large documents
Dynamic Site Panel allows site arrangement, drag & drop, object selection and more
Page Preview using the same rendering engine as Apple Safari—check a page in a genuine browser view without publishing your entire site

The Advantage

Some of Freeway’s powerful and unique features include...

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. Use as many different master pages as required.

LAYOUT TOOLS

Including transformation, 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! Drag and drop directly into Freeway from most applications (for example iPhoto, iTunes, Extensis Portfolio, iView Media Pro, and so on).

Link Styles

Freeway 5 has an improved user interface for setting link styles, and Freeway 5 Pro allows you to set link styles on CSS items as well as pages.

• Select a page.
• Change to the Appearance pane of the Inspector palette.
• In the Links section, choose link colors from the color popup menus and/or select the text style properties from the button group to the right of the color popups.

OTHER NOTABLE FREEWAY 5 FEATURES

• Built-in preview within Freeway (Safari/Webkit)
• Integrated .Mac upload
• Navigation Pack supplied separately as free open source software
• QuickLook compatibility in Max OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• Spotlight compatibility in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and beyond.

IMPROVED GRAPHICS HANDLING

Graphic box effects, Text effects - shadow, glow, emboss, blur, scatter

Vector effects (wobble and crack), Border types (dashing, dotted)

Graphics and Graphics Extra FAST packs are built into Freeway 5:
Sharpen, Blur, Watermark, ChromaKey, Duotone, Fade, FillMaster, PhotoFrame, PhotoMagic, Posterize, Scan Lines, Solarize, Sharpen, Saturate, Linear Blur, Impress, Hue Rotate, ChromaKey, Advanced Fade

ScreenCast

We have a Freeway Express screencast showing how easy it is to build a web site. View it here.