Adobe Halts Development on FreeHand and GoLive
According to Macsimum News, which translated an article from MacGeneration, Adobe announced that it would cease development of FreeHand and GoLive during last week’s Adobe Live event.
The two applications are the first causalities from the Macromedia acquisition. Fans of the applications have been hoping against hope they would continue on. Although, the news shouldn’t come as much of a shock considering Illustrator and Dreamweaver seemed like the obvious contenders to survive. Illustrator because of its long lineage with Adobe and tight integration within the Creative Suite. Dreamweaver for its popularity in the Web development community and apparent edge over GoLive in terms of development features and performance.
Adobe plans to continue support for FreeHand and GoLive for the immediate future. With FreeHand and GoLive development efforts halted, Adobe intends to focus their efforts on the future versions of Illustrator and Dreamweaver. I just hope that Illustrator inherits the handy Autoshape features of FreeHand and Dreamweaver inherits GoLive’s incredibly helpful Smart Objects and its refined user interface.
(Via Download Squad.)
Adobe Says GoLive and Freehand Are Not Being Discontinued at Creative Toolbox on May 31st, 2006
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