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May 02, 2006
FreeHand vs Illustrator
FreeHand vs Illustrator: Classic A-vs-B debate at MacDailyNews, prompted by a long-delayed Illustrator-for-FreeHand-users article which was scanned for occult meaning. The argument has spelling critiques, debates over morality of multiple pages in a PostScript tool, "Bush uses Illustrator!" harangues, more. Classic. (Adam Pratt has the background that I could not get on that Illustrator article... it was apparently intended for publication before the acquisition, but after its delay was not reframed to correctly set expectations... sloppiness on our part, tabloid journalism on bloggers' part. The product teams tell me *verbally* that all pre-merger products are under additional development now -- even the near-commodified JRun is coming up for an additional round of new engineering -- but I think more people would believe this if they opened up a little on detail, made public commitments themselves.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 2, 2006 03:32 PM
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Please, please don't kill Freehand !!!!!!!!!
Or bring multiple page support to Illustrator !!!!!!!
Posted by: Jason McMinn at May 4, 2006 04:20 PM
freehand is the most user friendly program ever created. i was addicted to coreldraw but after i got a mac computer freehand is my best friend. and although coreldraw had some better functions, freehand's environment is to fall in love with.
about illustration as long as does not support multiple pages for me is a disfunctional application.
Posted by: kaascat at October 5, 2007 08:29 PM