Working With Blends - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual

You can also use blends or power duplicating to evenly space identical objects
across a page. For more information, see "Working with blends" on page 207 and
"Power-duplicating" on page 224.
Choose Window > Panels > Align to display the Align panel.
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The three rectangles in the preview illustrate the current alignment settings;
when you select a distribute option, a fourth rectangle appears.
Do one of the following:
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In the preview window, click to set alignment options. For example, click the
left edge to align objects by their left edges.
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Choose alignment or distribution options using the pop-up menus.
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Select Align to Page to align or distribute objects relative to the current page
dimensions.
Click Align.
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You can copy objects between FreeHand documents or between FreeHand and
other applications—such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Microsoft Word—
by copying and pasting with the Clipboard or by dragging.
Pasted graphics appear in the center of the screen in the FreeHand document.
FreeHand can copy objects to or paste objects from the Clipboard in a number of
formats. When copying to the Clipboard, FreeHand copies the selection using all
the formats specified in Export preferences. When pasting from the Clipboard,
FreeHand uses the format that retains the most information about the object.