RAL colours in Macromedia Freehand

Freehand is one of the earlier drawing programs, which is especially popular on the Mac and with graphic designers. Due to diverse owner changes (Aldus, Adobe, Macromedia) Freehand can edit the AdobeColorFile-file format for colour palettes. Therefore it is very easy to work with RAL-colours in Freehand!

 

Versions 4.0 and up
File format acf
Colours RAL CLASSIC: 210
RAL DESIGN System: 1625
RAL EFFECT: 490
Optimizations

Standard RGB
Trinitron RGB
Offset printing uncoated paper
Offset printing coated paper
Newsprint
Application for vector diagrams of all kinds
Ergonomics ***

 

Destination Directory

Aldus FreeHand 4.x FH4\FH4LIB
Macromedia FreeHand 5.x FH5\DEUTSCH\FARBE
Macromedia FreeHand 7.x FH7\DEUTSCH\FARBE
Macromedia FreeHand 8.x-10.x Macromedia\FreeHand xx\Deutsch\Farben
Freehand MX Macromedia\ Freehand MX\German\Assistenten\Farben

The adherence to this destination path is necessary for the availability of the palettes in the program.


Using RAL colours in Macromedia Freehand

  1. Draw any object (e.g. a rectangle) in Freehand.
  2. Go to "view/ colours" (4.0) or, as the case may be "window/ colour palette" (5.0) or "window/control panel/colour palette"
  3. In the colour window go to "options" and select the desired RAL-colour component.
  4. Select the desired RAL-colours from the new selection field, and copy them in this manner into the floating colour window of the active file.
  5. You can now design with RAL-colours!

 

Selection optimised for the artprint (Europaskala, 54th grid) of the RAL CLASSIC-colours.

Colours are transferred into the current project out of the inventory "RAL EFFECT art print". The RAL-colours are not correctly displayed on the monitor, this is due to the fact that behind the artprint-variation there are CMYK-values that are optimised for the offset print and those are distorted when displayed on the monitor in RGB. You can now switch into other output variations (e.g. monitor-optimised) at any time.

After the palette selection and the selection of the RAL colours that are to be integrated they will appear in a window.

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