Smooth rounded lines in Freehand!!!

[NaQuer webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hey

When I open a new ducoment and start drawing, the round edges I draw become very "squared" and it looks a little odd. I want it to be like the lines drawn in the path lesson ( open path_direction in the lesson folder to see what I mean ) When i draw lines while having the path lesson doc open, the lines become smooth like I want them to. But what have they done to smooth them, in that doc? I suppose it's only one settings which should be changed.

-Mikkel

[Judy Arndt]

NaQuer wrote:

> When I open a new ducoment and start drawing, the round edges I draw become
> very "squared" and it looks a little odd.

What version of FH are you using? If it's FHMX go to Preferences: Redraw and
check 'enable anti-aliasing'. Does that help?

Also in FHMX, if you have a Raster Effect applied to the object and you are
zoomed in to a high magnification, you will see the individual pixels of the
rasterized effect.

Judy Arndt

[NaQuer webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm using Freehand 10

[maxman23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Sounds to me like you are missing an antialiased view of your artwork and your default view is not the Flash view... I forget the proper name of this view mode, as I have moved on to FHMX 11.01 and I've already forgotten a lot of the pitfalls and workarounds I used to resort to in FH10. Anyway, if you want to get rid of the jaggies, you have to use the antialiased mode - Flash preview, I think it was, but be aware that it's not very accurate with regard to things like stroke weight and such... it is after all a preview for Flash as opposed to a proper aa view.

Anyway, I usually set up my own document templates with regard to things like view mode, page orientation and resolution, rulers or not, location on the artboard, etc. Saves a lot of time.

Max
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Max MacDonald
Toronto