Above is a sample document that has complex areas. Sometimes when working on something like this, you may find yourself constantly zooming in, switching to Keyline mode, editing and zooming out.

Well there is a great feature in FreeHand that lets you save custom views of the document so you can easily get to the places you want with a simple keystroke.

These can be setup several ways, but I'll show you the "Power User" method first.

If you want to save a custom view that is zoomed in on a certain area, hold the Space bar + Command(Control) + Shift keys and drag around the area you wish to zoom in to.

Then you'll see a dialog box that will let you name your new custom view. Give it a name and hit OK.

These custom views are only available to the document you saved them in. They can be accessed under the View menu -> Custom. Here you can switch between views using the keyboard command and Edit or Delete them.

You can also save in these custom views, what the last view mode you used in it. So if you want to not only have the view be of a certain area, but you can also save the view mode as shown above.

If you want to edit a custom view, make sure you have everything set like you want it, like the magnification and the view mode. Then under the View menu -> Custom -> Edit you can redefine the view.

If you are one of those lucky people out there with a huge monitor or a two monitor setup, you can take these custom views even further.

Just go under the Window menu and choose New window. You will see a new "child" window show up with the same art as the original window. These child windows are just another easy way to navigate complex art such as maps or technical illustrations.

You can move these windows around, and even use those custom views in them like shown above. This way you can keep a 100% view on the main screen and work zoomed in on another. You'll instantly see updates made to all the windows as you work.