Gradient fills created in FreeHand appear banded on screen
June 15th, 2006 by Posted in Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Products
Gradient fills created in FreeHand appear banded on screen
Issue
An object containing a gradient fill has distinct bands of color on screen instead of a smooth transition from one color to another.
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Banded
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Reason
Various monitor settings including color bit depth and screen resolution, FreeHand preference settings, and the preview mode in FreeHand 8 will effect the screen display of gradient fills.
Solution
To have gradient fills appear smooth on screen do one or more of the following:
| Monitor Resolution On Multiple Resolution Monitors increase the Screen Resolution of the Monitor. |
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Monitor settings (Windows) |
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Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display. |
| 2 | Select the Settings Tab. |
| Increase the Color Palette to a Higher setting. | |
| Increase the screen resolution in the Desktop area. | |
| Monitor settings (Macintosh) | |
| 1 | Choose Apple Menu > Control Panel > Monitors. |
| 2 | Select Millions of Colors. |
| FreeHand 8 Preferences and FreeHand 7 | |
| 1 | Choose File > Preferences > General and turn on Smoother editing. |
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| FreeHand 8 (Windows) | |
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| FreeHand 8 (Macintosh) | |
| FreeHand 5 Preferences | |
| 1 | Choose File > Preferences > Redraw and turn on Better (but slower) display. |
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| FreeHand 5 (Windows) | |
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FreeHand 5/5.5 (Macintosh) |
| FreeHand 8 View mode | |
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Set the View mode pop-up at the bottom of the FreeHand Window to Preview. |
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| Note: The Fast Preview mode will show the gradients at a lower resolution. | |
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