Freeway 4 Pro, Mac
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Manufacturer SoftPress
Our Part # SFP102
Freeway is best compared with QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign; it’s a design application that has everything you need to produce the highest quality content (and of course, with no need to write any code). Learn more...
NEW FEATURES
Freeway 4 Pro has been completely redesigned to make it easier to use, yet even more powerful:
• CSS layout and CSS styling
• Standards-compliant XHTML output
• Graphic box and text effects
• Transparency/Opacity
• Unicode support
• More features...
THE FUTURE
There has been a tremendous amount of effort made “under the hood”, and while of course you can’t see it, Freeway 4 is now the solid foundation for the next generation of Softpress products.
Freeway is based on the desktop publishing (DTP) model, which is now universal in print design and production. Working in Freeway, you design an entire site in one document, just as you might lay out a magazine or book in a single DTP document. This makes it impossible to make a bad link between pages in your site, or to name two things identically, or to make any of the hundreds of other possible mistakes when hand-editing pages one at a time.
When you design in Freeway, you aren’t writing code, and you aren’t focused on the code which will represent your design on the Web. You are designing. Period.
Whatever HTML, CSS, or optimized graphics needed to represent your design in a Web browser will be generated from your design automatically when you publish your site. And in most cases, the layout you design in your mind and in Freeway will survive the many browser/platform pitfalls that await any content on the web—without any special effort on your part.
BUILDING ON SUCCESS
Previous versions of Freeway have thrilled designers around the world with a combination of print-quality typography, precision page layout and superb image control. Freeway 4 raises the stakes even higher.
REAL CSS CONTROL
While Freeway Pro 3 could be used to create CSS (table-less) page layouts using absolute positioning, Freeway 4 exposes the real power of CSS through relative positioning, percentage scaling of all elements, partial styles, and more, and all with the legendary Freeway WYSIWYG design view.
STANDARDS-COMPLIANT
Designing with standards means that you can trust that a modern browser will always render your pages consistently. It also means that you can create designs that work well for visually disabled visitors using “speaking” browsers, or cell-phone/PDA users risking life and limb looking at your site while driving. And it means you get to put those ugly little buttons on the bottom of the page. Create cutting edge XHTML Strict without a trip to MIT for a Master’s degree.
GRAPHIC BOX AND TEXT EFFECTS
Create exciting edge effects, shadows and glows—even rough edges—on graphic text and images. 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 3 introduced a fully transparent graphic compositing engine, but Freeway 4 takes that idea 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.
Freeway 4 Pro supports transparent images from Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand, Fireworks, and many other applications.
UNICODE—BECAUSE IT’S NOT SUCH A SMALL, SMALL, WORLD
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
The Freeway 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 MAP
Provides a complete overview of the hyperlinks that connect each page in a site. Hyperlinks made within the site are automatically tracked and are impossible to break accidentally.
Although not reflected in the Link Map, Freeway also allows you to edit the hyperlinks and change backgrounds in Flash movies directly in the layout.
OTHER NOTABLE FREEWAY 4 FEATURES:
• Hierarchical (nested) layout
• Built-in preview within Freeway (Safari/Webkit)
• Integrated .Mac upload
• Navigation Pack supplied separately as free open source software
• Spotlight compatibility in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
IMPROVED GRAPHICS HANDLING
• Full EPS (Panther & later), Illustrator, Photoshop layered file import
• Graphic box effects, Text effects - shadow, glow, emboss, blur, scatter
• Vector effects (wobble and crack), Border types (dashing, dotted)
• Improved transparency (opacity) options
• Graphics and Graphics Extra FAST packs are built into Freeway 4:
—Sharpen, Blur, Watermark, ChromaKey, Duotone, Fade, FillMaster, PhotoFrame, PhotoMagic, Posterize, Scan Lines, Solarize, Sharpen, Saturate, Linear Blur, Impress, Hue Rotate, ChromaKey, Advanced Fade
CODE OUTPUT
• Unicode for truly multilingual sites; mix languages on the same page, even on the same line. Unicode keyboards, Unicode filenames
• Encodings/import encodings/Auto/UTF8
• Generate standards-compliant XHTML (Strict and Transitional), HTML 3.2, HTML 4
• Output options on “By Page” basis
CSS
• CSS Layout - CSS layout items - control over CSS/table layout
• Child items, relative and absolute items, percentage positions and sizes
• CSS borders, padding and margins
• CSS styling with partial styles and tag styles
• Create and use external style sheets
• Full style management
System Requirements
Mac OS 10.2.8, 10.3
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