Comments on: Free Freehand group files antitrust lawsuit against Adobe

By: tenli

tenli — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:43:32 +0000

Freehand is more like old school chevy, and illustrator is japanese fancy sport car…
but right now I can’t deal with freehand, I have to leave behind the glory old days, and freehand run pain in a snowleopard…

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:25:35 +0000

Oh man, I remember Xres. That app was the bomb when it first came out. Layering and compositing long before Photoshop.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:55:54 +0000

Freehand is much easier for learners to pick up and start producing while Illustrator (especially these days) is comparatively daunting. I personally prefer Freehand over Illustrator but then Adobe gulped Macromedia, so …

BTW, this reminds me of my first illustration program at school Canvas (from Deneba).

Cheers.

By: Walter Muller

Walter Muller — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:34:10 +0000

Originally an Illustrator user, I switched to FreeHand when I came to know it during the 90s, later I was forced to go back to Illustrator which I use now every day. But not with joy. Illustrator was and still is old software, just that now they patch features over features on top of it, but the basics is still the same old thing. Nothing so elegant like FreeHand was. FreeHand was ahead of its time, and probably still does a better job then Illustrator. You don’t see that when doing easy vector or simple prepress work. But for extremely complex illustration artwork like I do, FreeHand still beats Illustrator by miles.

By: ninjaturkey

ninjaturkey — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:37:51 +0000

Haha – “peace” of software. “piece” of course.