Using Styles in Freehand 11

A style is a named set of appearance attributes. By applying different styles, you can quickly change the look of an object; for example, you can change its fill and stroke color, transparency, and Effect menu settings in one step. All the changes you apply with styles are completely reversible.
Using the Styles palette
The Styles palette lets you create, name, save, and apply sets of appearance attributes.
Displaying the Styles palette Choose Window > Styles.
Changing the order of styles Drag the style to a different position in the palette. When the outline of the style appears in the desired position, release the mouse button.
Using the Styles palette menu Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the palette to access commands for working with styles.
Renaming styles Double-click a style, or select a style and choose Style Options command from the palette menu. Enter a style name, and click OK.
Changing the palette display Choose a view option from the Styles palette menu: Thumbnail View to display a scrollable list of thumbnails; Small List View to display a scrollable list of named styles with a small thumbnail; or Large List View to display a scrollable named list of styles along with a large thumbnail.
Applying styles
You can apply styles to objects, groups, and layers. When you apply a style, the new style overrides any style that the item had before.
When you apply a style to a group or layer, every object on the group or layer takes on the attributes of the style. For example, assume you have a style that consists of 50% opacity. If you apply the style to a layer, all objects in or added to that layer will appear 50% opaque. However, if you move an object out of the layer, the object’s appearance reverts to its previous opacity.
Note: You can’t apply styles to type objects that use outline-protected fonts or bitmap fonts.
To apply a style:

1 Select artwork on the art board, or target an item in the Layers palette.
Note: If you selected a type object, select Override Character Color from the Styles palette menu to apply the style’s fill, stroke, and transparency attributes to the characters; or deselect Override Character Color from the Styles palette menu to preserve the current color of the characters.
2 Apply the style from the Styles palette:
• Click a style in the list.
• Drag the style onto an object on the art board. The object does not have to be selected
First.
• Copy and apply a style using the eyedropper and paint bucket tools. Depending on
What you specify in the Paint Bucket/Eyedropper Options dialog box, you can copy and paste the entire style or selected attributes.
Creating and modifying styles
A style can contain any combination of color, fill, stroke, pattern, effect (that is, any command listed under the Effect menu), transparency, blend mode, gradient, transformation, and the like. Each style can contain multiple attributes. For example, you can have three fills in a style, each with a different opacity and blend mode that defines how the various colors interact. Similarly, you can have multiple strokes.
To create or modify a style:

1 Do one of the following:
• Select an object.
• Select a style in the Styles palette to use as a starting set of attributes.
• Start with no object or style selected.
2 Specify the appearance attributes you want, such as the fill or the stroke. You can use the Appearance palette to help specify and order the appearance attributes.
3 Do one of the following:
• Click the New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette.
• Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette into the Styles palette or onto the
New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette.
Dragging a thumbnail from the Appearance palette to the Styles palette.
• Drag the object with the appearance attributes you want into the Styles palette or onto
the New Style button at the bottom of the Styles palette.
• Choose New Style from the Styles palette menu, enter a name for the style, and click OK.
The new style appears at the bottom of the list in the Styles palette.
• Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the New Style button, enter the name of
the style, and click OK.
To create a new style by merging existing styles:

1 In the Styles palette, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select all the styles you want to merge.
2 Choose Merge Styles from the palette menu. The new style contains all the attributes of the selected styles and is added to the end of the list of styles in the palette.
To replace style attributes:
Do one of the following:
• Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the style you want to use onto the style you want to replace.
• Select artwork (or target an item in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use. Then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the thumbnail from the Appearance palette onto the style you want to replace in the Styles palette.
• Select the style you want to replace. Then select artwork (or target an item in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use, and choose Redefine Style _ Style name_ from the Appearance palette menu.
The replaced style keeps its name but takes on new appearance attributes. All occurrences of the style in the Illustrator document are updated to use the new attributes.
To duplicate a style:

1 In the Styles palette, select the style you want to duplicate.
2 Choose Duplicate Style from the Styles palette menu. The new style appears at the bottom of the list in the Styles palette.
Unlinking styles
You can remove a style from an object, group, or layer by breaking the link to the style. The object, group, or layer retains the same appearance attributes; however, these attributes are no longer associated with a style.
To break the link between a style and a selection:

1 Select the object, group, or layer that has the style applied to it.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Break Link to Style from the Styles palette menu, or click the Break Link to Style button in the palette.
• Change any appearance attribute of the selection (such as a fill, stroke, transparency, or effect).
Deleting styles
Deleting a style removes it from the Styles palette. Any objects, groups, or layers that used the style retain the same appearance attributes; however, these attributes are no longer associated with a style.
To delete a style:

1 In the Styles palette, select a style you want to delete.
2 Delete the style:
• Choose Delete Style from the Styles palette menu.
• Click the Trash button in the palette.
• Drag the style onto the Trash button in the palette.
Using style libraries:
You can import styles from other files into a palette associated with the current file using the Style Libraries command. These libraries are stored in the Presets/Styles folder inside the Adobe Illustrator application folder. You cannot add, delete, or edit styles in a library; however, once you import a style, you can change its attributes using the Appearance palette.
To import a style from a Style Library to the current Styles palette:

1 Make sure the Styles palette into which you want to import a style is open.
2 Choose Window > Style Libraries > Style Library name. To locate a Style Library not stored in the default location, choose Window > Style Libraries > Other Library.
3 Select a style you want, and then do one of the following:
• Use the selected style in the current artwork (recommended for one or two styles at a time). Once you use it in the artwork, the style is copied from the Styles Library to the Styles palette.
• Drag the selected style to the current Styles palette (recommended for multiple styles at a time).
To create a Styles Library:

1 Create a file containing the styles you want in the Styles Library.
Delete all unused Swatches, Brushes, Symbols, and Styles to reduce the library’s file size.
2 Save the file.
3 Choose Window > Style Libraries > Other Library, and navigate to the location where you saved the file.
To have a Styles Library appear in the Styles Libraries menu:

1 Do one of the following:
• When you save your Library file, save it into the Presets/Styles folder inside the Illustrator application folder.
• Drag the Styles Library file into the Presets/Styles folder inside the Illustrator application folder.
2 Restart the program.

see also ....... Using Effects in Freehand 11

see also ....... Using Appearance in Freehand 11