Freehand users sue Adobe
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- vaxorcist0
I loved freehand and hated illustrator..... I can see why....
- pressplay0
I‘m with fyoucher1 here. Maybe the reason - to begin with - adobe got so big was not they were making the best software but the necessity of an industry to settle to a certain standard. Imagine being a freelancer and getting to work at an agency for some time, exchanging files constantly between co-workers... you use "adobe InDesign", they prefer "Anomee OnDesign" which renders, let it be only drop shadows (or some other minor detail) differently... you‘d be fucked!
- zoozoo0
So Adobe ended up taking the intellectual property rights and engine to freehand and doing nothing with it? Someone could back-engineer an older version of freehand at anytime then.
[then again freehand tech could be adding to illustrator features]
- ill ustrator's already bloated, we don't need more features, we need it faster and cleaner.. like Freehand(!)
vaxorcist
- ill ustrator's already bloated, we don't need more features, we need it faster and cleaner.. like Freehand(!)
- mekk0
Blizzard needs competition too..
no, srsly i´m good with adobe software, very good. just like most of you its my daily driver and their products are the industry standard. when industry changes, standards change! so dont just do your job like a remote-controlled workzombie - watch your industry and keep up to the latest products.
for example: keep an eye on "mobile" - by now not ruled by anyone!
- vaxorcist0
LOVED freehand.... I used to teach as an adjunct in 3 different art colleges... students could learn freehand fast, but illustrator had a really annoying learning curve and very strange error messages...
The last version of freehand was actually freely distributed by adobe, but won't run on newest mac OS....Rosetta mess....
FUCK ADOBE, I'd like to see this lawsuit mess them up
- they don't even have to respond to the lawsuit!monospaced
- and good luck with that anyway, they have less than $10,000 to take Adobe on at this pointmonospaced
- yes... largely symbolic... the fuck you factor is pretty much it... but maybe a smart lawyer can freak out adobe....vaxorcist
- yeah, good luck, the approach feels childish and ungrounded in actual lawmonospaced
- are you a lawyer now monospaced?Amicus
- no, but i did go to law schoolmonospaced
- animatedgif0
^ Good point, when Flash CS5 can't even open a Flash CS5.5 file then it's already a fucking shambles.
UI Designers should definitely be checking out Sketch
http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sk…- wow...maybe that's the real reason flash is dying....vaxorcist
- _me_0
I still use freehand every day [ even use fh8 keyboard commands ]