Well, it’s pretty much official. As John Nack has posted on his blog, FreeHand will no longer be updated, if you haven’t already it’s now time to move over to Illustrator:
Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or to deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware. Adobe will, however, continue to sell FreeHand MX, and will offer technical and customer support according to our support policies.
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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.
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about Adobe’s recent release of FreeHand to Illustrator migration guides. Although I posed the question if the writing was on the wall for FreeHand, my intent was never to cast out harmful speculations to the creative community, but rather to get the community to start considering what the “new Adobe” means to our beloved applications on both sides of the equation. Well, it turns out there was a bit more to the story.
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Adobe has just posted a rather comprehensive FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide (11MB PDF) as well as a brief technical resource paper (392KB PDF) to their Design Center. Although it’s thoughtful of Adobe to put together such helpful guides for longtime FreeHand users, one can’t help but think the writing is on the wall for FreeHand and its users. Nevertheless, the guides appear to be helpful and worth a look if you happen to be considering the switch.
It’s interesting to speculate what Adobe is planning on doing with all the competing products they now have in their product lineup. I think many of us felt FreeHand would be the first or obvious casualty of the acquisition but the other redundant products are a bit more cloudy as to which should win out or if one should win out at all. Instead have the two, like products come together; bringing the best that each has to offer to the mix.
Continue reading ‘Is the Writing on the Wall? Adobe Offers Migration Help to FreeHand Users’
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