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Freeway Reference: Working with Items

When you want a plain filled box

You can create an empty box and give it a fill color. A filled box can be output either as HTML or as a graphic. HTML items add less to

the overall page file size and are therefore marginally quicker to download. HTML items can also be made flexible.

When you want a box to reference existing web content

Items intended to hold external content referenced from the web (when the page is viewed in a browser) are called URL items. URL items

can be given one of two URL output types: Image or HTML. Any empty HTML or graphic item can be made into a URL item by setting its

type in the Item Output panel of the Inspector palette. URL items are useful for embedding a reference on your page to counters, Server

Side Includes, and other types of content.

Drawing items

Drawing a rectangular box

1. Select the HTML or graphic box-drawing tool.

2. Position the pointer where you want one corner of the box to begin.

3. Click and drag diagonally. You can drag left or right to draw the box.

4. Release the mouse button when the box is the right size.

The newly drawn box will be selected, with visible “handles” for resizing, and will display a non-publishing blue, green, or gray outline.

If you want to hide the box outline at any point for a more realistic preview of how the page will look, deselect Outlines from the View

menu.

Drawing an oval graphic box

1. Select the Oval box-drawing tool.

2. Position the pointer over the page where you want one corner of the box to begin.

3. Click and drag diagonally. You can drag left or right to draw the box.

4. Release the mouse button when the box is the right size.

Drawing a polygonal graphic box

To create a straight-sided or polygonal box by positioning corner points with the Path tool:

1. Click and hold the mouse button on the Rectangle tool to show the menu, and choose the Path tool.

2. Position the cursor where you want to start drawing the box and click once.

3. Place the cursor where you want to create the second corner point and click again. Repeat until you have

drawn the desired shape.

4. To complete the box, place the cursor over the initial point and click—the cursor displays a closed circle

when you are over the starting point to show that you are closing the shape. You may also double-click at any point to finish

drawing the object and leave it open.

Note: If you want to draw a regular polygon shape or a star with a speciﬁed

number of points, you can do so by using the

Fill Master Action (see the

KnowledgeBase article at http://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/355/

Drawing a curved graphic box

To create a box using curve points, drag the Path tool as you click to position the next point:

1. Select the Path tool as described in the previous section.

2. Position the cursor where you want to start drawing the box.

3. Click on the page and hold down the mouse button.

4. Drag the pointer to make direction handles that will determine the

curvature of the line segment through the point you’re drawing.

Release the mouse button to create a curved path.

5. Continue clicking and dragging to complete the shape.

6. Click on the first point in the path to complete the box.

Note: You can draw an item with both curves and straight lines.

Modifying the operation of box-drawing tools

You can change the way Freeway’s box-drawing tools work by using different keyboard modifiers.

Keeping a drawing tool selected to create additional items

Usually, when you’ve finished drawing an item, the currently active tool in the Toolbar or Tools palette reverts automatically to

the Selection tool. If you want to draw more than one box of the same type without having to reselect the box-drawing tool each

time, hold down the Alt key as you select the tool. When you do this, the tool is shown selected in a panel that matches your system

highlight color and remains selected until you choose another tool.

Drawing a box from its center point

line segment

control point

direction handles

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