FreeHand vs Illustrator
In the left corner, an oldie that hasn’t been updated since 2004. In the right, Illustrator CS4, the modern, up-to-date, heavy weight champ. It’s interesting to see real world examples and how well FreeHand accomplishes them while Illustrator CS4 still doesn’t seem to have a clue. It’s as if the developers of Illustrator don’t actually [...]
The Casualties of CS3: FreeHand
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 [...]
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 [...]
More on the Adobe FreeHand Migration Guides
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 [...]
Is the Writing on the Wall? Adobe Offers Migration Help to FreeHand Users
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 [...]

