I've been using FreeHand for many years and have five copies I would pay twice
the cost of Illustrator to upgrade.

I get lots of young designers coming as interns to my studio. They are all
trained on Illustrator. I was never trained on FreeHand, nor any other
software, I'm a Mac user and just learn as I go. I effectively draw circles
around these young, sharp design students when they use Illustrator to do
projects and I do the same things in FreeHand.

By the end of their internships, most of them have chosen to work in FreeHand
and can produce great technical quality art in half the time they used to do it
in Illustrator.

Some of the people commenting on this forum have said "Adobe would never let
go of FreeHand because they are in business to make money". This is a rough
paraphrase.

It's just not so. There have been a number of companies over the years that
have sold products to competitors or back to the original programmer teams, who
have then continued development of their original product. (I don't know if
Adobe has ever done so.) Perhaps we should be looking for some of the original
Aldus design team to get the code back from Adobe for further development.

I've been using FreeHand for many years and have five copies I would pay twice
the cost of Illustrator to upgrade.

I get lots of young designers coming as interns to my studio. They are all
trained on Illustrator. I was never trained on FreeHand, nor any other
software, I'm a Mac user and just learn as I go. I effectively draw circles
around these young, sharp design students when they use Illustrator to do
projects and I do the same things in FreeHand.

By the end of their internships, most of them have chosen to work in FreeHand
and can produce great technical quality art in half the time they used to do it
in Illustrator.

Some of the people commenting on this forum have said "Adobe would never let
go of FreeHand because they are in business to make money". This is a rough
paraphrase.

It's just not so. There have been a number of companies over the years that
have sold products to competitors or back to the original programmer teams, who
have then continued development of their original product. (I don't know if
Adobe has ever done so.) Perhaps we should be looking for some of the original
Aldus design team to get the code back from Adobe for further development.

Yes, yes!!!

Yes, yes!!!

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

ALEX

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.

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.

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

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