> If you have bought/registered FH online the information sould be still be
> available at Adobe's site. If you remember your login information that is.

Nope. I'm guessing they maybe didn't get all the old Macromedia information
moved over to Adobe. And they don't care. But why should they? So it goes...

> Anyway, download demo(s) first.

Oh! Duh. Didn't even occur to me. Good idea!

-Darrel

> If you have bought/registered FH online the information sould be still be
> available at Adobe's site. If you remember your login information that is.

Nope. I'm guessing they maybe didn't get all the old Macromedia information
moved over to Adobe. And they don't care. But why should they? So it goes...

> Anyway, download demo(s) first.

Oh! Duh. Didn't even occur to me. Good idea!

-Darrel

> Of course there will be issues. Any object native to FreeHand that does
> not
> have an AI equivalent will present an issue. (Same would be true going the
> other direction.) Multi-page FH files will be cumbersome; Illustrator
> still
> only allows one page (Artboard) per file.

What happens in that case? I think 90% of my FH files are multi-page. Crap.
Seems like I should still have a copy of Freehand too just for legacy files.

-Darrel

> Of course there will be issues. Any object native to FreeHand that does
> not
> have an AI equivalent will present an issue. (Same would be true going the
> other direction.) Multi-page FH files will be cumbersome; Illustrator
> still
> only allows one page (Artboard) per file.

What happens in that case? I think 90% of my FH files are multi-page. Crap.
Seems like I should still have a copy of Freehand too just for legacy files.

-Darrel

> If you registered, call tech support. If they have your serial number on
> file, they may ask you to send proof of who you are and give you your
> serial
> number.

Official and repeated reply from Adobe: We do not support MX Studio, and
therefore will not give you a serial number. You must buy a new copy.

> Opening FH11 files in AICS3 is splitting-headache territory for me.

Ah crap. Oh well.

At this point, I'm thinking of buying a copy of FH11, and then just ditching
Adobe. Move on to something else, as painful as it may be...

-Darrel

> If you registered, call tech support. If they have your serial number on
> file, they may ask you to send proof of who you are and give you your
> serial
> number.

Official and repeated reply from Adobe: We do not support MX Studio, and
therefore will not give you a serial number. You must buy a new copy.

> Opening FH11 files in AICS3 is splitting-headache territory for me.

Ah crap. Oh well.

At this point, I'm thinking of buying a copy of FH11, and then just ditching
Adobe. Move on to something else, as painful as it may be...

-Darrel

>> If you have bought/registered FH online the information sould be still be
>> available at Adobe's site. If you remember your login information that is.
>
> Nope. I'm guessing they maybe didn't get all the old Macromedia information
> moved over to Adobe. And they don't care. But why should they? So it goes...

That's strange. I can still download Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (with reg #) purchased Dec 2, 2003. My oldest online order available is Flash 5, purchased Sep 21, 2000.

This will not help now but I have a long text document with all the reg numbers of all the programs I've ever bought. I update it whenever I buy new software and copy it with install files to a backup CD. I also have copies in a few computers, memory stick etc. Also when I need to reinstall it is easy to copy & paste reg numbers from that file.

Jukka

>> If you have bought/registered FH online the information sould be still be
>> available at Adobe's site. If you remember your login information that is.
>
> Nope. I'm guessing they maybe didn't get all the old Macromedia information
> moved over to Adobe. And they don't care. But why should they? So it goes...

That's strange. I can still download Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (with reg #) purchased Dec 2, 2003. My oldest online order available is Flash 5, purchased Sep 21, 2000.

This will not help now but I have a long text document with all the reg numbers of all the programs I've ever bought. I update it whenever I buy new software and copy it with install files to a backup CD. I also have copies in a few computers, memory stick etc. Also when I need to reinstall it is easy to copy & paste reg numbers from that file.

Jukka

> Well, this is a corporate purchase. So *I* didn't purchase it. Alas, Adobe
> can't seem to search their own DB by any field other than email address for
> some inane reason.

It is clearly BS not DB.

Maybe they could donate one Illustrator arrow tool to search another database field.

Jukka