freehand sucks?
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- heavyarms0
That's interesting Designers Republic only uses FH and PS. Where did you hear that?
I guess you could export it as PDF if the printer doesn't take FH files.?.?
Also, why when I drag my guides on the document do they disappear as soon as I let go? Show guides is on.
- frankosonik0
"I would have no use for Illustrator if it made multi-page documents."
Sorry, I meant "no use for Freehand if Illustrator made multi-page documents"
- 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.
- reaper0
freehand is for people who just graduated from Corel Draw.
the pros use illustrator
- 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.
- 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.
- johndiggity0
I noticed having trouble with the disappearing shit when the view is Flash anti-alias, but only on my work machine. I've got FH10 at work and MX at home, but I have a newer machine at home. FH10 in OSX doesn't fuck up the views at all, seems to happen only in 9. My biggest peeve in MX is that the guides are completely fucked up at all times even when I set them through the menu. Also the fact that I can no longer change all the contents of a group without ungrouping first sucks. But I still like it better than Illi.
You can use it for page layouts, but it's hard to find a printer who will do it, but I use it for comps before moving stuff into Quark.
BTW, the Designers Republic only uses 2 programs; Freehand and Photoshop. Good enough for them, good enough for me.
- heavyarms0
I think some of my frustrations with it come from not using it enough. Like why does the artwork itself constanly dissapear and I have to change views to something like preview and back just to be able to see the vectors.
I'm having problems printing too. It always says it's too large for the paper and when I preview it not everything shows up. I'm not talking about cropping either. I'm talking about whole vectors being gone from the center of the page. Could be because I pasted some in from Flash. I'll have to go back and try some more. I haven't had much time to mess with it.
It would be nice if you could double click the hand or zoom tool to change view sizes too.
Also, does anyone use Freehand as an alternate to a page layout program like quark odr inDesign? Is that possible?
- rasko40
I've always freehand and I play 9 like a piano, mx i find to be a pain in the butt really.
the most annoying thing is for instance: This week I have had an irate client on the phone twice because there is something missing from their ad that is printed in 2 magazines, the artwork was supplied fine along with a correct pdf for visual, yet the dumbfuck publication cocked up, didn't check the visual, the client fucked up and didn't check the proof and its all down tom the fact that they opened a freehand file in ilustrator and a box pasted in another didn't show because of the conversion.
Who gets shouted at first and professionalism cast into doubt? you guessed it.
- ozhanlion0
for me, you don't need to. freehand (I am talking about the version 9) comes very handy in drawings, very easy to play with it after you get used to it.
illy is another story, you have couple of things that freehand don't have, but I found it very memory intensitive in the first hand. also if you are dealing with flash you should better use freehand, because illyu sucks when you are dealing with complex vectors and try to spit them to flash although freehand can dance with it.
anotherpoingt multiple pages . freehand is ncie about them. you can create storyboards easily on a one thumb, illy has some addons orplugins as if they call that tweak the softy and make it support multiple pages but why give another couple of bucks for this.
at last but not the least, if you are dealing with complex vectorised graphics stick to illy, but if you are dealing more editorial stuff I'd choose freehandy.
my 2 shillling
oh shit have I wirtten all thaT shit.
- -_MU_-0
Thats what I'd like to know. Opinions please?
- raksasa0
been using freehand forever. hmm should i change to illustrator?
- -_MU_-0
Hey build
i tried that - no dice in Win XP. then I hit macromedia support, and they tells me I am boned...
- aesthetics0
no negative feelings towards freehand but still with illustrator.
- Hold0
'Freehand is King'
- nodh0
macromedia screwed up flash and dw with their mx 2004, why would they do better with freehand ?
btw, pen and paper rule !
- build0
Re. Shortcuts:
In MX - Menu: Edit - Keyboard shortcuts... - Keyboard shortcuts setting - Change to FreeHand 9.
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- quik0
word kodap, you got it in one.
you too build.freehand is hotter than woody allen & his incest.
- 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)
- -_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...