Freeway 7 is the full package - design-focused with useful features and an attractive interface. The selection and creation tools may be a little difficult to understand if you are not used to working with Mac desktop publishing software, but once you have got the hang of it you’ll find it simple to create good looking sites for business. List of sites using Freeway Pro as publishing tool. 74 sites on 63 different domains at the top level domain.FR. File updated 2020-03-09 21:35:29.
| Developer(s) | Softpress Systems |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 7.1.3 / May 5, 2016 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.6.8 or higher, Intel only, Yosemite compatible |
| Type | Internet publishing |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.softpress.com |
Freeway (originally Uniqorn) is a WYSIWYGweb design application for Mac OS X (older versions also run under Mac OS 9), developed by the English company Softpress Systems.[1]
Freeway is based on a pre-Mac OS X print publishing application called Uniqorn, also developed by Softpress, but discontinued when Apple stopped supporting QuickDraw GX in Mac OS 8.
The philosophy behind Freeway is that an average user is able to design websites without having to deal with any code, using an interface very similar to that of Desktop publishing applications like QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Advanced procedures (like connecting to a MySQL database using a scripting language like PHP) are done through plug-ins called 'Actions'. Several Actions can be downloaded for free on several websites, but there are also commercial 3rd Party Actions, like the 'Auction Seller Suite' from FreewayActions.com, which allows the creation of eBay-friendly HTML within the Freeway design interface. Many useful Actions are bundled with Freeway, the latest set from Softpress being a suite of Actions that lets the user create a shopping cart through the popular Mals e-commerce system.
Unlike most other WYSIWYG web design applications, Freeway produces syntactically valid HTML code and Cascading Style Sheets, making it usable in situations where valid HTML code is obligatory. For example, valid code is required by law on the majority of federal and state institutions' web sites in Germany. Versions of Freeway from 4.4 onwards also create HTML and CSS that correct many rendering problems with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows.
On July 4, 2016, Softpress announced the end of development on Freeway and other software products via a post on the homepage stating, 'The end of Softpress Systems Ltd. has come. It has become clear that our prospects, both in terms of current revenue and new product development, are insufficient to sustain the company as a viable entity going forward.'
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At the start of 2017 the author of Freeway announced the resumption of Softpress' business but, due to limited staff, without in-house tech support, referring to a thriving on-line user groups for support. It currently offers five products: Freeway, Freeway Express (a basic version of Freeway), Chroma (for selecting color palettes), Exhibio (photo gallery creation), and Fretspace (for creating chord diagrams). They also offer a range of Freeway templates under the name, Marketplace. As stated by Softpress:
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'We’ve returned from the netherworld to make our award-winning applications available again, and to begin work on great new software for the future.:[2]
References[edit]
- ^https://vintageapple.org/macworld/pdf/Macworld_9704_April_1997.pdf#page=62
- ^https://www.softpress.com
External links[edit]
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Are you on a Catalina beta? (Because as you know, that won’t work, shouldn’t allow you to launch at all.)
Are you using the very latest version of Freeway? (7.1.3, I think)
I am using the latest version of Mojave, and Freeway Pro 7.1.3, and I diid get the alert on first launch, and occasionally thereafter, but have had no stability problems.
The one thing that will reliably crash many Mac OS X applications, even in this day and age, is dodgy fonts or mangled preferences files. One way to debug this easily is to use the System Preferences Users and Groups pane to create a new user, sign in as that user, and try launching Freeway in that account. You won’t have any of the extras that your account has gathered over time, and if you use an external font management system, or the built in one in the OS, you will likely only have the bare system fonts enabled. If that works, you can then start the process of debugging things.
Preferences: open the [your user]/Library/Preferences folder, find the Freeway preferences and move them out of that folder (while Freeway is not running). They will be re-created from defaults the next time you launch Freeway.
Fonts: if you’re using a font manager, try disabling half (any half) of the fonts you have opened. Re-launch Freeway, see if it launches. If it does, quit and re-enable half of the fonts you disabled. If it doesn’t, re-enable the ones you disabled, and disable the other half. Repeat until you find the one or ones that cause the crash, and restore them from the originals (wherever you purchased them).
Walter
On Jul 26, 2019, at 9:08 AM, madcomposter <[email protected]> wrote:
Freeway Pro is now crashing on launch after the “not optimized” message appears …
Freeway user since 1997