freehand sucks?
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- 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"
- aesthetics0
no negative feelings towards freehand but still with 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...
- raksasa0
been using freehand forever. hmm should i change to illustrator?
- -_MU_-0
Thats what I'd like to know. Opinions please?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- build0
No.
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- propa0
Actually you know what, I have always used freehand, bought studio Mx and think after what is probably 6 years of freehand I’m going to switch to illustrator. If you look at what Brooke does with AI and the clips of 123klan at toca me. Time to switch. I think freehand does suck and I’m finally am ready to admit it.
- zack270
I don't really think it's a pain, but I'm switching to Illustrator, cause it just seems better.
- SUPREMENIGGA0
I would defend freehand in any debate till death but I switched to illu
macromedia fucked it up too much
I still keep it around but only because I'm too lazy to convert my old freehand files into illustrator
- solmo0
freehand is for loosers
- ozhanlion0
ya losers my ass. freehand 9 rocks and the more they release new versions the more they suck.
illu 10 rocks, but cs sux big time either.
I don't believe how they could do such a memory leakers.
- build0
The software is just a tool, it doesn't make you a better designer.
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- godbcdy0
illustrator is too bloated imho, even though it has gradient mesh (i wouldn't use that shit anyways).
- godbcdy0
though freehand mx is quite shit. 8+10 were my favorites.
- anon25730
I've used it for 10+ years and I still like it. It has some advantages over Illustrator .. and some disadvantages.
But I prefer the typographic controls and page handling.
Simply saying "freehand is for losers" is one the dumbest posts I have ever seen. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
- 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.