I recently went on an 2 day Illustrator training course, paid for by my work as
the reality of "no more FreeHand" has set in, and while the chap taking course
knew his stuff and explained everything really well, I found the actual
software falling well short. I asked some pretty awkward questions too, usually
to be met with a reply of "yes you can do that in Illustrator" followed by at
least 5 clicks, a few menu scrolls and an arcane set of names to achieve a 2
clicks solution in FH. I'm still using Freehand for 60% of my work with Quark
XPress taking up 30% and Photoshop accounting for the remainder. Even the
mighty InDesign can't do some things Quark can, this all conquering Adobe
stranglehold is not a good thing.