Keyboard Shortcuts

[R-dox webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I had a shock today when I activated the new Freehand MXa. Some of the keyoboard shortcuts are not working - The tools shortuts.

I press "Z" but the magnify doesn't work. Nor the rest of the shortcuts with letters only.

I have tried to assign them at Edit / Keyboard Preferences... but it wouldn't let me assign letters only.

Please advise.

Thank you.

-Radu
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Freehand MXa - winxp pro

[veeall webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

same here, in win 2000.

MXa has just cut off my left arm. this is big disappointment.

Im looking for MXb in near future, hopefully.

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Marek

[veeall webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

same here, in win 2000.

MXa has just cut off my left arm. this is big disappointment.

Im looking for MXb in near future, hopefully.

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Marek


Freehand Team!
is there any simple fix or quick patch for this issue to become available in days?

anyway, thanks for working on Freehand, catch up the others and release FHMX 2004 soon!


Marek

[voxel webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Holly sweet jesus what have they done it's worse than the original - that's right - worse. No sigle key shortcuts? Do macromedia actually use thier own products i supect not CTRL+SHIFT+F9 for the text tool - lick my ball bag give me back T,Z and the rest.

[Stéphane Bergeron]

"R-dox" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> I had a shock today when I activated the new Freehand MXa. Some of
> the keyoboard shortcuts are not working - The tools shortuts.
>
> I press "Z" but the magnify doesn't work. Nor the rest of the
> shortcuts with letters only.
>
> I have tried to assign them at Edit / Keyboard Preferences... but it
> wouldn't let me assign letters only.

I see the same thing on my Win2K machine, will check at home on Win XP
Pro tonight. Most toolbar buttons have no keyboard shortcut assigned and
the Keyboard Shortcut editing dialog won't let me enter single keys (A,
V, Z, etc...)

I sure hope there is a workaround for this one, a pref we can delete or
change or something. This one is a very crippling bug.

Stéphane Bergeron

[Pappy]

Since I am on a mac maybe I am going to sound ridiculous but here goes...Have you tried going under Edit/keyboard shortcuts to set up how you would like for your keyboard commands to work (mine are set to FH8 preferences with a few extra for goo measure).

I am sure that there were people in the beta testing for this new application who use PC's and none of them were expressing a problem with this and I am sure that they would be is they lost all of their keyboard command functionality (thats a bit hard to overlook). I expect/pray that this is a preference issue with your keyboard set up.

Pappy

[John J Nosal]

All,

I am looking into this issue now... So far it looks like a Windows only issue due to it working fin on the Mac OS.

Regards,
John J Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia Tech Support

[R-dox webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Have you tried going under Edit/keyboard shortcuts to set up how you would like for your keyboard commands to work (mine are set to FH8 preferences with a few extra for goo measure).

I have tried changing to Illustrator Shortcuts, Freehand 10, etc. I even tried to set up new Single Letter ones, but it's not working.

I can't wait for a patch or something for this serious bug.

-R

[Stéphane Bergeron]

John J Nosal wrote:

> All,
>
> I am looking into this issue now... So far it looks like a Windows
> only issue due to it working fin on the Mac OS.

Thanks for looking into this John. FWIW, the issues are also present on
my Win XP Pro SP1 machine: single key shortcuts don't work and they
cannot be assigned to anything in the Keyboard Shortcut editing dialog,
only two keys or more shortcuts can (Shift-P for ex.).

Stéphane Bergeron

[John J Nosal]

Stéphane,

I have added this issue to the Emerging Issues TechNote.

<http://www.macromedia.com/support/freehand/ts/documents/fhmx_emerging__issues.htm>

Regards,
John J Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia Technical Support

[Stéphane Bergeron]

John J Nosal wrote:

> Stéphane,
>
> I have added this issue to the Emerging Issues TechNote.
>
> <http://www.macromedia.com/support/freehand/ts/documents/fhmx_emerging__issues.htm>

Hi John,

Thanks very much for being on top of things. The technote does not
mention the fact that the reason the normal tools shortcuts do not work
(A, V, P, etc) is that they are no longer present in the shortcut
definitions and that it is impossible to add them. If it was just that
they were missing it would be a minor annoyance but the Keyboard
Shortcuts dialog will not accept single key shortcuts so it's
imposssible to get them back.

Stéphane

[summersea webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Spent half the day and activated half the studio to figure out what was wrong. We were all stumpped hoping there would be some help on this issue only to find out that it's a bug in the new MXa version. How can this be??? Man to think these shortcuts are the like the most basic of the shortcuts which must work.

By the way, am running Freehand on WinXP Pro - if hope this info will help somehow in coming up with a fix. so fro all you designers out there running on XP Pro, you are not alone. It's not you rsystem its just MXa ('a' might actually stand for 'annoyance')

No matter what MXa has fixed, we rather live with the bugs of MX than with the this one on MXa. It's almost as good as MXa not supporting the mouse! Cannot wait for the fix.

[Tree Hugger webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Any fix for this yet? This is a bug of epic proportions and is dramatically increasing development time. About ready to abandon FH.

[Pappy]

I would suggest that anyone interested in getting this fixed go an make their wishes known at the Macromedia bug site. Reporting this bug in the users forum is only going to get you bupkiss. Of course, it might garner you some sympathy perhaps, but in the real world thats still just bupkiss.

good luck

Pappy

[Robaire]

Anyone know the keyboard shortcut for bullet points in Freehand 10 on a Mac?

[Bill Schuhle]

Most Mac fonts produce a bullet when you type Option-8. If the font in use
has a bullet in its character set, this is the keystroke that accesses it.
It's not specific to FreeHand and should work in any program. To find
keystrokes for all the characters in a particular font: In OS9 or below, go
Apple Menu > Key Caps and push various modifier keys to see what each key
produces. In OSX, go Applications > Utilities > Key Caps and do the same
(choose the font you wish from the Font menu while in Key Caps). You can
click the green "maximize" button to make the keyboard larger for better
readability.

Bill Schuhle


"Robaire" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c7jm2j$o9q$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Anyone know the keyboard shortcut for bullet points in Freehand 10 on a

Mac?

[Judy Arndt]

Character shortcuts change with keyboard layouts. Option-8 is the bullet
character shortcut for most fonts when using one of the English language
keyboard layouts.

In Mac OS X Panther, 'Key Caps' is replaced by 'Keyboard Viewer'. Full
instructions for finding and using it here:
[url]http://www.maccritic.com/tips/article/294_0_12_0_M/[/url]

Judy Arndt


Bill Schuhle wrote:

> Most Mac fonts produce a bullet when you type Option-8. If the font in use
> has a bullet in its character set, this is the keystroke that accesses it.
> It's not specific to FreeHand and should work in any program. To find
> keystrokes for all the characters in a particular font: In OS9 or below, go
> Apple Menu > Key Caps and push various modifier keys to see what each key
> produces. In OSX, go Applications > Utilities > Key Caps and do the same
> (choose the font you wish from the Font menu while in Key Caps). You can
> click the green "maximize" button to make the keyboard larger for better
> readability.
>
> Bill Schuhle
>
>
> "Robaire" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:c7jm2j$o9q$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>> Anyone know the keyboard shortcut for bullet points in Freehand 10 on a

> Mac?
>
>

[Bill Schuhle]

Thanks for the update, Judy. I just recently got Jaguar running and thought
I was hot sh*t :-)

Bill Schuhle


"Judy Arndt" <jarndt@shawbiz.ca> wrote in message
news:BCC3CFE9.1789F%jarndt@shawbiz.ca...

> Character shortcuts change with keyboard layouts. Option-8 is the bullet
> character shortcut for most fonts when using one of the English language
> keyboard layouts.
>
> In Mac OS X Panther, 'Key Caps' is replaced by 'Keyboard Viewer'. Full
> instructions for finding and using it here:
> [url]http://www.maccritic.com/tips/article/294_0_12_0_M/[/url]
>
> Judy Arndt

[t_kern]

Does anyone know if there is a PC keyboard shortcut for creating bullets using freehand?

[Bill Schuhle]

You can try the standard Windows keystrokes: hold down the Alt key and type
0149 on the numeric keypad. If you're in a font that has a standardly-mapped
bullet character, that should produce it. After that, you can highlight the
bullet and Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard then insert your cursor and
Ctrl-V to paste it wherever else you need one.

Bill Schuhle

"t_kern" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c8gl0l$9d0$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Does anyone know if there is a PC keyboard shortcut for creating bullets

using freehand?