MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual page 220

Do one of the following:
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Double-click the Skew tool in the Tools panel.
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Choose Modify > Transform > Skew.
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Choose Window > Panels > Transform and click the Skew button in the
Transform panel.
Choose one or more of the following options:
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Select Contents to skew the contents of a clipping path with the rest of the path.
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Select Fills to skew a Tiled fill with the rest of the object.
Enter a positive value in the Y text box to skew the selection to the right, and a
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negative value to skew it to the left.
Enter a positive value in the V text box to skew the selection up, and a negative
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value to skew it down.
Enter a value in the Copies text box. A value of 0 skews only the selected
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object. Higher values create the specified number of copies, each of which is
progressively skewed.
Set the object's center manually or by entering values in the X and Y text boxes
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in the Transform panel.
Click the Skew button.
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