Yes, yes!!!

ADOBE!!
PLEASE UPGRADE FREEHAND MX
I WILL PAY FOR IT

ALEX

YES!!!! I want future versions of FreeHand. Adobe, should continue its support
and dump Illustrator. The only people I have met who like Illustrator better
are those that have not used FreeHand.

I have used FreeHand for nearly 20 years. During that time I have had to use
Illustrator with some of my jobs and I hated every minute. I never understood
why a simple thing like multiple pages couldn't be done in Illustrator.
Furthermore, selecting complex objects is a nightmare in Illustrator and yet so
easy in FreeHand. I also use rounded cornered squares and rectangles a lot in
my work flow and it is so easy in FreeHand to make and edit and yet in
Illustrator it is buried in menus and submenus. Why can't that command be found
and easily changed in the info bar? There are numerous little things like those
that make Illustrator CS3 so cumbersome to use even with its many powerful
functions. I have also found that FreeHand works shares files better with
Photoshop and Id. When I copy and paste a file from FreeHand to Photoshop, it
does what I want it to do. When I do the same from Illustrator, all I get is
frustration!

When I heard Adobe was not going to develop FreeHand anymore, I was sad but
willing to give Illustrator another shot. After extensive training, and hours
of frustration, I am back using FreeHand so I can get some work done. Why
doesn't Adobe take the few good features of Illustrator CS3 and add them to
FreeHand and then just rename the program Illustrator CS4. All the Illustrator
users will praise the wonderful upgrade and the FreeHand users will have a
future.

Yep, I'd definitely pay. Having also been a long time user since Freehand 1.0.
In that time I've jumped into Illustrator to have a crack but always felt
frustration on doing the simplest things.

Now I have Freehand 11.0.2 to most things, then have Illustrator there just so
I can provide printers with modern PDF output which is relatively straight
forward now that Illustrator CS3 opens the FH11 files natively.

I know this is falling on deaf ears, but it would be fantastic to at least get
an update that wouldn't fail on a machine rebuild because the stupid
reactivation crap that's built in.

Cheers
Brendan

Let's see what Adobe announces with CS4. Hopefully Illustrator will borrow (steal) some of Freehand's features.

David

http://blogs.adobe.com/rufus/2008/09..._4_cs4_to.html

Of course I would pay. As long as Freehand makes me money. Which it still does -- daily.

Yes, absolutely!
Would pay for an upgrade.
Came from old school graphic design background, technical pens, french curves
and such. Been using Freehand continuously since 1998.
I find that that the interface makes it easy to achieve a level of fluency
with the various editing tools, object styles, layering etc compared with
working in Illustrator. Drawing experience especially great working with 12"
square Wacom Tablet, with custom set of 20 programmable buttons/macros at head.
The process of drawing sometimes difficult vector art projects, logos,
illustrations, maps, I find develops a flow which I don't get in Illustrator.
I appreciate this may be personal, ideosyncratic, perhaps for some of us
Freehand is the just the right instrument for my approach to drawing/design.
Definitely a case of horses for courses though, InDesign superior for DTP of
any multipage document. But when it comes to creating vector art, Freehand is
top in my experience.

YES YES YESSSSSS
El freehand fue es y sera el mejor de los programas de vectores que existe
desde el freehand 1 hasta el XI es lo mejor
El freehand nunca morira mientras lo tenga en mi Mac Plus.
FREEHAND FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EN ARGENTINA SOMOS POCOS PERO VALEMOS COMO MILLONES

Pablo

Yes, I would pay for a Freehand upgrade. We still use Freehand everyday for the
bulk of our production work as one of the largest plastic bag and film
companies in the US.

I use Illustrator for some projects and have tried to make the "switch"
several times, but for the bulk of our production work Freehand continues to be
the favorite and the speed champion.

Working with Illustrator here are SOME of the features I really miss:
1. One selection tool
2. Easily select objects behind other objects
3. Select locked objects
4. Easily edit embedded images
5. No white overprinting
6. Better handle controls and adjustments
7. Clone
8. Step & Repeat
9. Visual feedback when ungrouping or unclipping.
10. Smaller file sizes

SLS

11. Paste Inside
12. Multiple Pages and page sizes