Preferences

The options in the Preferences dialog box affect the working environment for all subsequent documents.

To display the Preferences dialog box

General

Provides general preference options.

The options are summarised in the following table:

Option Description
Arrows nudge Specifies the nudge distance for moving objects with the arrow keys.
Make backups Specifies whether Freeway makes a backup version of your document, with a .fwbackup extension, when you open the document.
Old selection behavior Enables the behavior of selecting objects used in earlier versions of Freeway.
Enable AppleScript in Actions Enables the ability to run AppleScripts in Freeway Actions.
Palettes snap Makes the Freeway palettes snap together automatically, to help maintain a tidy screen appearance.
Adjust box dimensions when adding padding Changes the size of graphic and HTML items to keep the content the same size when adding padding.
Show help tags Shows a pop-up tag with help on toolbar icons and controls when you point to them with the mouse pointer.

Text

Provides options that affect the appearance of text in the Freeway window:

Option Description
Minimum anti-alias Size Specifies a minimum size for applying smoothing to graphic text.
Invisibles color Specifies the color used to display invisible characters, such as spaces and carriage returns.

Appearance

Allows you to change the color used to identify each of the different item boxes:

Option Description
Graphic boxes Specifies the color used for the border of graphic items.
Table-positioned boxes Specifies the color used for the border of HTML non-layer items.
CSS-positioned boxes Specifies the color used for the border of HTML layer items.
Map area boxes Specifies the color used for the border of map area items.
Revert to default colors Restores the colors to their default values.

Grids & Guides

Provides options relating to the guides and grid lines:

Option Description
Grid color Specifies the color used to display the grid lines.
Grid magnetic range Specifies the snap-to distance for grids, in pixels.
Horizontal/Vertical guide color Specifies the colors used to display the horizontal and vertical ruler guides. Select Link to make the horizontal and vertical lines the same color.
Margin guide color Specifies the color used to display margins.
Guide magnetic range Specifies the snap-to distance for guides, in pixels.

To specify grids and margins for a master page or document page use the Grids... command on the Page menu.


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