freehand sucks?
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- kodap0
has its pros and cons, as every software has
- -_MU_-0
I tired to use Freehand MX, having cut my teeth on v9. MX sux, they forgot to make half the shortcuts work (like even though the manual sez press 'z' for zoom tool, it doesnt work ... and the macromedia help site basically sez just deal with it =(
I use FH10 atm, but I wanna learn illustrator, just got myself a copy of CS. What are the issues with illustrator CS? Gradient maps sound sweet!
Also, FreeHand MX 2004 MUST ;-)
be due at some point. maybey things will get better then...
- gsd0
i reckon anythng you want to achieve in illustrator could be achieved in freehand or them and photoshop combined - it just depends what result you're after (saying that I've used illustrator since leaving college so I wouldn't have a clue about freehand)
- quik0
word kodap, you got it in one.
you too build.freehand is hotter than woody allen & his incest.
- newstoblag0
Freehand is more of a designers tool with an illustration tools if you need it. I have designed a whole magazine using Freehand.
I cannot do that in Illustrator.
- build0
Re. Shortcuts:
In MX - Menu: Edit - Keyboard shortcuts... - Keyboard shortcuts setting - Change to FreeHand 9.
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- nodh0
macromedia screwed up flash and dw with their mx 2004, why would they do better with freehand ?
btw, pen and paper rule !
- xcissor0
not a pain, i just like illustrator better. but, if your using flash, importing stuff from freehand is a boat load easier than from illustrator.
- Hold0
'Freehand is King'
- reaper0
freehand is for people who just graduated from Corel Draw.
the pros use illustrator
- frankosonik0
I would have no use for Illustrator if it made multi-page documents.
Freehand's 3d tool is a bit clumsy, but for simple stuff it's OK.
Freehand's transparency capabilities stink. Sometimes having to figure out which pointer tool to use in Illustrator is confusing. But anything you can draw in one you can do in the other. All that "graphic hose," "beveled edge" filter crap is not worth the time spent developing it.