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Freeway Reference: Styling Text

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To create graphic text within an HTML item

If you need text in a distinctive font or style within a block of HTML text,

you can convert a selection into graphic text. When you publish the site,

Freeway will convert the section of text into an in-line GIF image.

• Select the text you want to create as a graphic.

• Click on the text icon at the top of the Inspector palette to display the

character and paragraph settings.

• In the Character section, choose GIF from the Type popup menu to

convert the selected characters into graphic text.

The formatting options will then change to the options for graphic text and

you can specify the settings as required.

To convert a paragraph into graphic text

You can also convert a complete paragraph into graphic text.

• Position the insertion point in the paragraph and select triple-click to select

it.

• Click on the text icon at the top of the Inspector palette.

• In the Paragraph section choose GIF from the Type popup menu to

convert the entire paragraph into graphic text.

The formatting options will then change to the options for graphic text, and

you can specify the settings as required.

For more information about editing text, checking your spelling and finding

and replacing words in your Freeway document, see Working with text on page

80.

What are styles?

FW Pro only

In traditional DTP and word processor applications, styles are used to control how the lettering on the page looks.

Sea of probabilities

Throughout this chapter, we will be making references to probabilities. When designing a web site, all we can do is hope that the end

user will see what we have designed. This is down to a good number of factors:

• The client machine is set to override your settings

• The fonts you specified are not on the client machine

• The client machine can only “display” text

• Different browser

• Different operating system

• … etc.

Because of this, we cannot be 100 per cent sure that the end display will represent your design as you intend it. However, as you will

learn, using Freeway’s styles can help improve the chances of conveying your message, despite the above limitations.

It is also very likely that the client machine will display your text differently, even if it has the same fonts that you specify. This is due

to the way in which different Operating Systems (OS) display text. You may find in some cases that different browsers will display text

differently on the same OS. Because of this, you should test your layouts on more than one browser in at least Mac OS X and Windows

to ensure that there are no nasty layout surprises in store.

Important Note: Most of the content of this chapter is concerned with Freeway Pro. Freeway Express does

not support creation of styles, so whilst Express users can style and color text using the

Inspector palette, the

creation of permanent reusable styles is not possible. See Styling text on page 152.

This chapter contains examples of HTML created by Freeway. This is included to give you a better understanding

of what is going on when Freeway generates the HTML. While you do not have to learn HTML to use Freeway, it is

helpful to have an idea of what is going on so you can get the most out of the software.

This chapter will also discuss some of the deeper issues in web design. Again, this is unavoidable as using styles

effectively in any web design application requires knowing more than just colors and typeface names.

Note: “Display” does not always mean “show on a screen”. It can also

mean “read in a synthetic voice” or “translate into Braille”.

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