The formatting (shadow, glow, etc.) I add to my text shows up fine on the page view, but when I view it in the preview pane or with a browser (Safari), none of the formatting is present. Would someone help me troubleshoot this? Thanks
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Hi Buck
If you can post this online somewhere with your page set to more readable then I am sure that one of us will be able to help.
David
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Could the problem be related to the fact that I am using a Trial Version of Freeway? I plan to purchase the pro version this week. I was unable to publish what I have been working on.
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Only if you get a message saying that your trial has timed out. Otherwise, there is absolutely no difference between the trial and licensed versions.
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Then why will the Publish Site command (in the File menu) not work?
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My bad!! I should have been using the Upload command. Here is the page in question:
http://home.comcast.net/~buck-w/index.html
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There is not anything obviously wrong on the page you have uploaded.
Have you tried using more extreme settings for offset and blur.
Also try holding down the Ctrl key and selecting File>Publish Everything in case a file is not being written to the site folder correctly.
If that doesn’t chamge anything then try creating a new site folder in File>Document setup then click the Document Tab and republish into that.
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Hi Delta Dave,
Thanks for the help. I tried all of your suggestions and it has not resolved the problem. I took a screen shot of a Test.gif I created, intentionally using more extreme settings for offset and blur:
http://home.comcast.net/~buck-w/Test.gif
It does not show up in the Preview tab, or in the browser. I created a new Site Folder and re-published everything. The only thing that shows up is the word Test in black with no red shadowing at all. Is it possible that my (trial) copy of Freeway is corrupted in some way?
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Just a thought, a slightly wordy thought though…
You are laying out your page within FW’s design space, which provides feedback of an ‘ideal’ presentation. Actually one that takes a few liberties for speed of rendering and such. One of those areas is in graphics rendering.
FW really only reads and displays enough information to give you the ‘gist’ of the image. For example: After importing an image file, resizing and moving around in an image box; double-click on said image and in the resulting popup dialog, click ‘resample’ Typically you will notice that the displayed image sharpens as more of the graphic is read into the design space. Now, this sharpened image (or the blurry image before) has no impact on the output of the image. When FW publishes, it does a thorough job of rendering the image, regardless of its appearance in the design space.
This creates a bit of a disconnect between what the design spaces reports and what is actually output. With this in mind, I believe something to this effect is happening with the glow and shadow in your text.
In the design space, FW is able to make some gross estimates on how the text will render (again, to make the application snappy and responsive). The final dictating parameters for the rendered image are the file output options (and to a lesser extent, the position of the image), as typically adjusted in the Inspector. (Some graphical text is not directly adjustable in this manner, but text drawn into a standard graphic box is).
I notice that the output image is a gif floating over another graphic. This format handles transparency, but not SEMI-transparency. So, at some point, the termination of the nice blend from the text to whatever BG FW sees behind the text must be determined. I think this determination is synonymous with the symptom you are describing. The blur and glow are there, just that they are not matching the magnitude shown to you inside the FW design space.
Now, as a remedy to this, or at least a giant leap in the direction of consistency, you can turn on ‘Graphics Preview’ under the View menu. This will force FW to render each graphic in the design space as it will be output to the browser. Think of this as a partial publish. The drawback is that FW tends to respond a bit slower to scrolling, drawing, and things like that as it is re-rendering each image when things are changed even a little bit.
If you are looking for an some faster feedback to design changes, this is likely the first step you will want to take. It will provide instant feedback to changes in file-format, effects, colors, etc… Simpy turn it off when you are done.
As DeltaDave mentioned, you can likely ‘overcompensate’ the glow/blur and fiddle with the anti-alias color to achieve the desired results.
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Hi Weaver,
What you wrote makes sense, but as you can see in my post above yours, this is something different than just the way FW is rendering images on the layout page. I turned on ‘Graphics Preview,’ but it has not changed anything.
I also am having some trouble creating a simple rollover. I followed the directions in the Freeway tutorials - http://www.softpress.com/support/freewaymoments.php?q=HQ&m=14
But when I highlight the item I am working with, and choose: Items>Actions, I only have the following options available:
CSS Menus
E-Buy Form
Navigation Map
Attention FX
Sound FX
Transition FX
Fieldset
Form Item Label
Text Link Style
That is totally different than what is pictured in the video tutorial. I was planning on purchasing a license this week, but I’m going to have to get some answers before I take the plunge and pay for the application.
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I may have discovered the problem. I was using the HTML box and turning the text into a GIF image. When I used the Graphic box and typed something into that, whatever formatting I added showed up fine. Am I to reason that you are unable to use formatting with HTML even though I changed it to a GIF?
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Sometime around 20/9/08 (at 21:19 -0400) Buck said:
Am I to reason that you are unable to use formatting with HTML even
though I changed it to a GIF?
Absolutely right, because ‘it’ (the box) wasn’t a graphic. You are
not able to apply a graphic-related attribute to something that’s not
a graphic. If you use an HTML box, that item won’t be published as a
graphic even if you’ve set some of its contents to be output as a
graphic. You text inside the HTML box will be published as a
graphic, but you can’t selectthe text itself as an object (only as
editable text), and when you select the HTML ‘container’ box you
can’t apply graphic features to it as it is a different kind of
object entirely.
So yep, you found the problem and have started to work out the
reasons! Welcome to Freeway - you’re rolling now, and the logical
consistency of how things work will be starting to fall neatly into
place. 
k
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