Freehand vs Illustrator
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- Amicus
I'm sorry if this is a timeline, but I do miss my Freehand.
I'm sick of large illustrator files slowing down my workflow, and there are so many little things I miss from Freehand.
If you are like minded, please check out this site and help us win back our Freehand.
- BaskerviIle0
Jeez, honestly give it up. It's 2009 and your work shouldn't be about what app you use but the content of it. All the major design companies I have worked for have used Illustrator (and yes I grew up with freehand first). I really don't care either way, it doesn't hinder my workflow to use Illy. Same with Quark, I used quark for ages for big book layouts etc, now I have to use InDesign which I didn't like at first (where the heck can I alter kerning tables etc) but I've adjusted and it doesn't bother me at all now, in fact there are many positives. most of all the fact that all the adobe CS app integrate nicely now.
Maybe get a faster machine?The one thing I know about computers is: Always update and move with the times or you'll be left behind. No point pining for OS 9 or VHS or whatever, just move on and embrace new tech.
If they stopped making my favourite brand of pens (edding) I'd just buy another kind, not lobby for edding to keep producing the old pens, just get on with your life!
- speed_d0
I suppose you use Lotus on your budgeting spreadsheets also?
- calculator0
Bring back betamax
- ********0
What was so unutterably wrong with steam locomotion?
- ********0
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anti-aliasing was always dogshit in freehand, you could barely tell what work was actually gonna look like without saving it as a pdf every so often.The difference between Illustrator and Freehand is minimal, theres only a few bits missing really. Whats more worrying is how buggy Fireworks is becoming when its SO MUCH BETTER than photoshop at doing UI layouts, I mean just resizing and moving buttons around in photoshop is a fucking ballache.
- Adobe needs competition or it'll continue to create updates a la CS4, which barely move the bar at all.Amicus
- what the f are you talking about Amicus?monospaced
- Amicus0
I use Illustrator every day, but it just doesn't seem to work as seamlessly for me as Freehand did.
and goddamnit. if every product you liked was bought out by one company and shelved you would probably want to something about that.
Imagine how good Illustrator would be if it still had a viable competitor.
- mydo0
I was working with a large design/print company the other day, said they couldn't open my files. (PSD)
ME: oh? what version of photoshop do you have?
THEM: we don't use photoshop, can you save it a coreldraw?
ME: ......
- ********0
Another big fuck with Freehand was that it wasn't precise. You would be convince the cursor had just locked over a point to put another point right on the spot, and then when you magnified in to the full capacity it would be about 3" away on screen.
I do miss Illustrator 8.0 though, that was the zenith, eh? Kai's Vector effects n that? What what!
- typist0
still using freehand 9 and photoshop 7
- shitehawke0
dodo vs penguin
- Penguin. Every time.********
- well they are a tastier chocolate based biscuit, I will admit.shitehawke
- Penguin. Every time.
- ********0
Lawd of mercy do you remember when Freehand got that "multipage at any size" feature? and you could move them around on the baseboard anywhere you liked? What the fuck was the point of that? Jesus H Corbett that drove me nuts.
- typist0
no matter how i like freehand
freehand is losing it to illustrator
gradient mesh
gradient to transparency- Losing it? I'm sorry to break it to you, but they lost many years ago.monospaced
- MrMackem0
;(
- hallelujah0
I like to cut and paste from freehand directly into InD... creates native InD shapes
- editable in InDhallelujah
- for coloring logos etc in docshallelujah
- What? Illustrator does that. Was that a joke?Josev
- Amicus0
I just feel that without strong and robust competition we will end up with an Adobe that becomes like Quark was – less innovative and less responsive to the needs and wishes of its customers.
One update to Freehand could have those features typist, and still have UI that while looking outdated now was pretty good in it's time. (and those looks could also be updated).
- stem0
Anyone on here tried this?
http://xara.com/us/products/xtre…- only ever known of one guy using that software and that was about 13 years ago.Amicus
- ismith0
The only thing I miss about Freehand is the live path preview– I loved seeing my curve before dropping the anchor...
- Raniator0
Baskerville smashed the nail on the head, but his post was more than 2 lines so you probably didn't read it.
- hallelujah0
if you want to alter imported artwork in InDesign, for instance, to change a logo from black to white, FH still has a valuable function
- btw... if you set up your clipboard preferences correctly in ID and Ai you can do this.Amicus
- thanks, good to know. Unfortunately my illy CS3 stopped functioning over a year agohallelujah
- I'm back on CShallelujah
- thanks, works in CS toohallelujah
- pascii0
i use it every day. love it. faster than any app i use, and it does the job