Editing FreeMind (section)

== Features ==

FreeMind's documentation is itself available as a FreeMind mindmap, demonstrating many of the features of the application. This is accessed from the application menu: <code>Help > Documentation</code>.<ref name="Documentation">{{cite web
  | title      = FreeMind - Documentation
  | publisher  = FreeMind Project
  | url        = http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Documentation
  | access-date = 2017-01-30
}}</ref> A flash based export of this documentation is available online and can be viewed from flash-enabled [[web browser]]s.<ref name="Documentation"/> The link can be found in the [[FreeMind#External links|external links]] section.

FreeMind's most significant features are as follows:<ref name="InnovationTools"/><ref>{{cite web
  | title      = FreeMind - Features
  | publisher  = FreeMind Project
  | url        = http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Features
  | access-date = 2009-02-01
}}</ref>
* Folding branches
* Save files as [[XML]] with an {{code|mm}} suffix
* Export hypertext to [[HTML]] and [[XHTML]]
* Export document to [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] and [[OpenDocument]]
* Exports image to [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]], [[JPEG]] and [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]]
* Icons on nodes
* Clouds around branches
* Graphical links connecting nodes
* Search restricted to single branches
* Web and file hyperlinks from nodes
* FreeMind browser/player for web in Java or [[Adobe Shockwave|Flash]]
* Transform maps using [[XSLT]]

FreeMind uses the [[Swing (Java)|Swing]] [[Widget toolkit|GUI toolkit]] for Java.

FreeMind developers or developers of other projects have made [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]] for various [[wiki]] and [[content management system]] software so that Freemind files can be viewed and in some cases created via the web interface.