Hi DeacInCola,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am doing the same as you for a while,
more than 2 months now. I am a little luckier, I had someone in my office who
uses Illustrator, I could always ask him when ever I got into problem. It was
very confusing in the beginning, lots of questions about the control of the
fill and the stroke. They are together and yet they are not. When you want to
do changes to the stroke, you have click onto the stroke, not on the fill, even
those the fill and the stroke are together. Freehand user will find this
incredibly difficult to accept. To comments on whether illustrator is a good
software or better than FreeHand and without being bias, I must be a true
Illustrator user. I have done a project with it now, I missed Freehand "collect
for output", have to resort to using third party software like "Scoop" to do
the collecting. No doubt the Illustrator raster handling is much better. The
ability to use .psd file with transparency is great. I am still learning a very
difficult software. There are so many "Transform" function all over the place,
in fact there are many repeated functions everywhere. I only using those in
from the Effect function as they are editable. WHY make it so confusing.
Freehand is still much simpler, almost everything are editable. I am still
hoping. Thanks for being part of this.
Jack Png