Comments on: The Casualties of CS3: FreeHand http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/ all about creative tools for creative people Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mick Murphy http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7862 Mick Murphy Thu, 31 May 2007 20:58:05 +0000 http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/16/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7862 <p>Illustrator is big and clumsy. I downloaded the trial of CS 3 and it takes up 1.6 GB of disc space while Freehand takes about 50 MB. Windows users can switch to COREL DRAW. While us Mac users are left with ...... a big clumsy thing. Maybe you spent a few more bucks to buy Adobe Indesign. So Illustrator + Indesign = Freehand.</p> Illustrator is big and clumsy. I downloaded the trial of CS 3 and it takes up 1.6 GB of disc space while Freehand takes about 50 MB.
Windows users can switch to COREL DRAW. While us Mac users are left with …… a big clumsy thing. Maybe you spent a few more bucks to buy Adobe Indesign. So Illustrator + Indesign = Freehand.

]]> By: Die Freehand Die! « The Jonzeblog http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7177 Die Freehand Die! « The Jonzeblog Thu, 17 May 2007 16:38:37 +0000 http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/16/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7177 <p>[...] Die Freehand Die! Hot on the heels of Scumbag Falwell’s demise, here’s another passing that I am pretty sure I won’t be wearing a black armband for. [...]</p> [...] Die Freehand Die! Hot on the heels of Scumbag Falwell’s demise, here’s another passing that I am pretty sure I won’t be wearing a black armband for. [...]

]]> By: Splashman http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7115 Splashman Wed, 16 May 2007 19:30:43 +0000 http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/16/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7115 <p>No arguments on the UI -- elegant it ain't. The thought of Freehand with an Adobe interface would put a smile on my face.</p> <p>I'd love to see the best of Freehand rolled into Illustrator, but that's about as likely as (insert favorite no-chance-in-hell example), and not worth my time to contemplate. Most obvious "best of": multi-page support. Not in a million kajillion years would Adobe risk cannibalizing sales of InDesign. But don't you DARE posit that Adobe is a marketing-driven company!</p> <p>(No, I'm not bitter! Heh.)</p> No arguments on the UI — elegant it ain’t. The thought of Freehand with an Adobe interface would put a smile on my face.

I’d love to see the best of Freehand rolled into Illustrator, but that’s about as likely as (insert favorite no-chance-in-hell example), and not worth my time to contemplate. Most obvious “best of”: multi-page support. Not in a million kajillion years would Adobe risk cannibalizing sales of InDesign. But don’t you DARE posit that Adobe is a marketing-driven company!

(No, I’m not bitter! Heh.)

]]> By: George http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7112 George Wed, 16 May 2007 19:00:02 +0000 http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/16/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7112 <p>Yeah, although I haven't used FreeHand in quite a while, I did review its last version for creativepro.com. I can appreciate the power and flexibility it offers but never cared for the hodge-podge UI it seemed to take on over the years. </p> <p>It might be worthwhile to collect what features the FreeHand lovers miss most along with what really makes you roll your eyes in Illustrator and perhaps we can send it along to Adobe to consider adding it into the next release of Illustrator.</p> Yeah, although I haven’t used FreeHand in quite a while, I did review its last version for creativepro.com. I can appreciate the power and flexibility it offers but never cared for the hodge-podge UI it seemed to take on over the years.

It might be worthwhile to collect what features the FreeHand lovers miss most along with what really makes you roll your eyes in Illustrator and perhaps we can send it along to Adobe to consider adding it into the next release of Illustrator.

]]> By: Splashman http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7111 Splashman Wed, 16 May 2007 18:52:49 +0000 http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2007/05/16/the-casualties-of-cs3-freehand/#comment-7111 <p>(Sigh.) This isn't news, of course, but it gives me (a Freehand lover) another opportunity to whine. I force myself to use Illustrator more and more these days, because it's been obvious since Macromedia's demise that eventually I'll lose access to Freehand. So far, I seem to do as much eye-rolling in Illustrator as I do actual work.</p> <p>Sooner or later, I'll have to bite the bullet and stop working in Freehand entirely. But for now, it's still well worth my trouble to do my design and comp work in Freehand, then migrate it to Illustrator/InDesign for production/revs/prepress.</p> <p>(Heavy sigh.)</p> (Sigh.) This isn’t news, of course, but it gives me (a Freehand lover) another opportunity to whine. I force myself to use Illustrator more and more these days, because it’s been obvious since Macromedia’s demise that eventually I’ll lose access to Freehand. So far, I seem to do as much eye-rolling in Illustrator as I do actual work.

Sooner or later, I’ll have to bite the bullet and stop working in Freehand entirely. But for now, it’s still well worth my trouble to do my design and comp work in Freehand, then migrate it to Illustrator/InDesign for production/revs/prepress.

(Heavy sigh.)

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