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- winkelried
I don't want to give up Freehand because of it's mulit-page-multi-sites concept.
Month ago, a big guy from Adobe has promised to look into this issue and perhaps build this into Illustrator.
Has anybody news about this? Is there something goin' to happen?
Cheers.
- moamoa0
dont know, but there is in indesign, so why should adobe build it into illustrator... competition to theit own product?
- 7point340
yeah me thinks they just want you to buy illustrator and indesign cs3
- winkelried0
I don't build a broschure in Freehand, but i sure do this for, let's say, some small adds or a complete set of buisness-dingis... letterhead+businesscard+envelope... fits. One document, VERY handy... .-)
- doesnotexist0
you can do multiple pages in illustrator
- neue75_bold0
how big was this guy?
- bigger than 2 brick shithouses7point34
- the dude from adobe abides in his large abode?neue75_bold
- the dude abides in his adobe commode7point34
- moamoa0
you do stationary stuff in illustrator? would never do this, I just make Logos and "graphics" in illu
- design them yes, when i set up the presentation those files are used to build in indesign.doesnotexist
- doesnotexist0
make your document size 100x100 or something big.
go to the print settings, set it as a postscript file. in same dialogue, go to setup, choose "tile full pages", select your page orientation and get to work!
just print the file as a postscript file and distill it.
- and and choose "show page tiling"doesnotexist
- I've had problems with this - garbled lines and shoddy outline text interpretting.detritus
- This is interesting. Thanks for the hint. i hope it's less painfull than tiling an excel sheet into something printable...winkelried
- guaranteed bloated illustrator filemonospaced
- ugh, a tedious workaround. You cant easily duplicate pages, etc. using this method. I suggest using Indesign.
Josev
- HerculesChimp0
FreeHand will always be king.
Illustrator is the tool of the devil.- Yep.winkelried
- Word.pascii
- ok i'll say it again: freehand is for germans! ;)joqui
- freakin' dark agesmonospaced
- invisiblechamber0
i'm just about to finish a complex vector job. client happy, me happy, computer happy. system: classic under osx, tool: freehand 5.5.
- pascii0
Month ago, promised to look into this issue and perhaps build this into illustrator, a big guy from adobe has. Yes, hmmm.
- Dr_Rand0
it's not just multiple pages, it's multiple pages of DIFFERENT SIZES
- emecks0
Adobe fucked Freehand through the mattress, always was infinitely better than Illustrator. Adobe actually owned it for a while when they bought it off of Aldus - then they sold it to Macromedia.
"Illustrator het meh Löcher als de Winkelried gha het."
- organic_grid0
Freehand is like so 1995, Paint Shop Pro is all the rage now!
- How to compare this one with the other? I don't get it!winkelried
- pascii0
ILLUSTRATOR CS3 ruined my day. awful piece of crap....
- blackspade0
u gotta get over freehand, it was wicked in its time but its over, and going back to it you realise how average it is really
- horton0
multipage in Illustrator... ? yeah it's called InDesign.
or if you really must there's a plugin for AI that does the trick.
- You can output multi-page PDFs, but it's an inconsistent hack.detritus
- I agree, InDesign +1section_014
- Get the Page Tool Plugin for InDesign. Allows you to create mutliple size pages and spreads with varying sized panels.Josev
- ...varying sizes of panels.Josev
- detritus0
Freehand has Font and Barcode building features built-in though, right? They'd be kinda handy to have in still.