From Adobe Systems:
FreeHand is the tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. FreeHand's uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper infographics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Freehand will not work with 10.4 - 10.4.2 Tiger. To many problems saving files, printing, writing PDFs. Many input boxes are randomly jumping over the desktop. It is real expensive, unprofessional crap.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Freehand 10 & 11 insist on saving files in the application folder instead of going to whatever system default I have selected. With a control panel like DefaultFolder Freehand just takes longer to readjust to a new location to save files. The program offers no contextual menus even though this feature has been available on the Mac since OS 8.0, and the floating tool windows clutter up the screen with no easy keystroke to temporarily hide them to see one's entire work area.
Versions 10 and 11 offer little improvement over version 7 which was the previous version I used. It is markedly slower and places more demands on the CPU and the memory. Unfortunately Illustrator is still more awkward and less intuitive to learn when it comes to using basic tools and doing simple manipulations of vectors.
I only wish Freehand 7 were OS X native. I would gladly give up all the fancy features for a cleaner vector drawing application that Freehand used to be.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Long time user of Macromedia Freehand I am very disappointed with result of latest version MX! This Windows like interface and over all confusing style of desktop not mentioning this new policies of licensing leading me to stay with ADOBE. Flash MX I have is virtually same but because there is nothing better at mean time I have to stuck with that. Anyway good news is, that Illustrator CS is great software not only in partnership with Photoshop but on it's own as well as great companion for GoLive!m Anyway to make it short not spending my money for Macromedia product comes down to ADOBE CS package which is efficient and absolutely great!
