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Freeway Reference: Working with Items

Freeway Pro

Freeway Express

Note: To constrain the movement of the item to horizontal,

vertical or diagonal, hold the

Shift key after beginning to move the

mouse.

Power Tip: If you have set the Arrows Nudge increment to a value

greater than or equal to 10 pixels, holding down the

Alt key as you

use the arrows will move the item 1/10th the speciﬁed distance.

Note: Copying items in this way may cause non-layer HTML items on the

destination page to become overﬂowed. Items affected will be displayed with

a diagonal cross in the box.

Freeway Pro

Freeway Express

Moving items

There are several ways to move an item, provided it is not locked.

Using the Selection tool

1. Choose the Selection tool.

2. Click on the box and while holding the mouse button down drag the mouse to the location you desire.

Dragging items close to guides or grids will cause the item to snap to the guide or grid line if Snap to Guides on the View menu is

turned on.

You can cancel a drag by pressing the Escape key.

Child items are normally constrained to the bounds of their parent, but you can drag items out of their current parent (into a new

parent) by pressing the space bar while dragging. Repeatedly pressing the space bar will allow you to cycle through all possible parents,

highlighting each one in turn.

In contrast to table-positioned items, which cannot be outside the

bounds of their parent, layer items can be dragged outside or partially

outside the bounds of their parent by holding

the

Command

key

while

dragging (Freeway Pro only).

Using the Inspector palette

1. Select the box.

2. Enter new values in the Left Inset and Top Inset text fields of the

Inspector palette. (These normally correspond to the upper left

corner of the item’s constraining rectangle.)

3. Press Enter or Return.

Using the keyboard arrow keys

To move an item on the page by using the keyboard arrow keys:

1. Select the item.

2. Use the four keyboard arrow keys to nudge it up, down, right, or

left in 1-pixel increments.

You can change the increment in Preferences, General panel,

Arrows Nudge setting.

Moving an item to another page using the Site panel

You can move an item to another page within the Site panel. Simply drag the item’s icon, in the Site

panel, to the space just below the desired page’s icon. If items aren’t visible in the Site panel, choose

Show Items from the Site panel menu.

You can also drag items from the Site panel to the currently

visible page. This will create a copy of the dragged item. See

Showing items in the Site Panel on page 52.

Locking and unlocking an item

You can lock an item into position to prevent inadvertently moving it. To do this, select the box and choose Lock from the Item menu or

select the Lock checkbox in the Item General panel of the Inspector palette.

When an item is locked, its selection handles are drawn in red. Some boxes that have not been locked in this way may also have locked

selection handles:

• The top and bottom selection handles of a box are locked if the box’s height is undefined or if “Height can shrink” is selected—in

this case, the height is determined by the box contents, and cannot be set separately.

• In Freeway Pro, the left and right selection handles of an inflow box are locked if the box’s width is undefined—in this case, the

width is determined by the width of the parent (or by the box contents in the case of floated boxes).

Changing box shape

You can change the shape of a graphic box or map area. For example,

you can draw an oval and then later convert it to a rectangle:

1. Select the box and display the Item Appearance panel of the

Inspector palette and open the Shape section of the panel.

2. Choose a different shape from the Shape popup menu in the Other

panel.

Note: HTML items can only be rectangular.

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