Dear forum,
I just bought Freehand 11, surprisingly I cannot install it on my Imac intel based.
After searching , Freehand is a dead application which Adobe didn't care at all.
Is there anyway I can use Freehand?
Is there a legal statement that mention Adobe support on Freehand product?
Is it true that Rosetta can't work on mac os 10.8.2?
Ooh my head is start to crack...
Please give me some info.
Regards
Indra
Hi, photoshop 7 and photoshop cs2 doesn't appear in the list of external editor in my freehand mxa, how can i solve the problem? I have also photoshop cc, how can i use it as external editor?
I would like to know how can I ensure good results exporting from FH to PDF through the virtual PDF printer
Does anyone know why some of my old FH7 files cannot open in either of versions 7, 9 or 11?
The error message tells me that they are not valid Freehand documents.
I already have at least a dozen of these, with potentially dozens more.
As i have no idea whats contained in these, I can't even re-create if necessary.
Hello,
I've been using freehand for some time now, but not until yesterday needed I to weld two points of a curve. Is there a way to do this in freehand?
Thanks a lot!
I selected the text I wanted to apply the URL to. Pulled down the Navigation menu, typed in the URL address, hit tab and the selected type appeared in the Substring text box. I then chose Get URL under Action; _self under Parameters; on (press) under Event and then closed the box. Wrote a ps file and then from that a pdf and the URL link doesn't show up in the pdf.
I've got OS 10.6.2, Freehand mx, distiller & acrobat CS4.
Any suggestions, oh wise Freehand gurus out there???
Hi,
I have been trying to export a freehand presentation to a PDF file, i have tried to do a simple export aswell as printing to PDF, in both cases the resulting PDF file becomes disconfigured with Text comming out of the background boxes. however if i print to a normal printer all seems to be ok. Does anybody know if I need to do anything special in the configuration so that this does not happen?
Thanks
For those who are interested, [edited by host], here's a re-post of some links to outside news sources regarding Free Freehand's antitrust lawsuit against Adobe:
http://freefreehand.org/ffh_newsletter13.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/159949/2011/05/freehand_lawsuit.html
http://www.macnews.com/2011/05/18/free-freehand-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-adobe
Hi,
I would like to ask a question on text alignment.
How to make text arranged in vertical direction? I tried various settings in the object (text) panel without success. Is it possible with Freehand?
Bob
I have been using Freehand for awhile to make maps, but am certainly still a novice. I have solved most problems, but there is a pressing one that I can't seem to figure out. After "converting to text" and exporting as a tiff file, the map looks fine on the screen. When I print it, there is a white space around the map that I cannot get rid of. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much!
I know Adobe removed all support of FreeHand from CS6 Ai. Fine. But Adobe now needs to have a programmer design a simple droplet app they can offer as a FREE download on their site or as a FREE download to those who upgrade to Creative Cloud that allows former FreeHand users to still have access to their design archive moving forward.
The droplet would ignore any placed images or fonts and just strip out the vector content and spit out an .ai file the user could than open in Adobe Illustrator.
Seriously, how long would it take one of their programmers in India to do this? Maybe a week max? How much good will would that foster in the creative community? A lot!
I have one friend whose G5 mac is dying, he needs to buy a new iMac but discovered his FreeHand will no longer run on the new iMac. He knows he needs to switch to Ai and start using CS6 but he has 20+ years of vector art he can't simply abandon. He needs to be able to access it and for Adobe to give users the finger and not at least provide a means to convert art is a total BS move on their part. Adobe you need to work with these people. They're going to switch but you can't ask them to lay aside two decades of work because you won't create a simple droplet app to convert a file and give them access to their artwork.
I know another design firm in town whose whole system works with FreeHand, they have plugins to do specific forms of typography distortions (KPT Vector Effects) that even CS6 Ai sucks at and simply cannot even come close to doing well and yet Adobe expects these firms to just forget thousands of creative assets and abandon them because Adobe is too lazy to provide an easy means to convert files so they can at least transition with less pain when the move from FreeHand to CS6 Ai?
It's hard enough changing from FreeHand to Illustrator, add to that the fact Adobe now wants to prevent some users from being able to even access old FreeHand art and it's just adding needless insult to creative injury.
I made the switch back with CS2, but I still have 15 years worth of vector art I'd like to have access too. I don't want to have to keep CS5 on machine forever just to be able to use my old vector art because Adobe is too short sighted to provide a simple solution via a droplet app to convert them when needed.
I've attached a diagram that explains it as easy as I can. Come on Adobe, assign one programmer to this and get it done already this is a no-brainer. You bought FreeHand, you killed it, at least make it easier for those switching to access their old art in the new app they are using from you. (View larger image here)
In Windows 7 64 bit Freehand MX (11.0.2) installation by default does not display thumbnail in windows explorer thumbnail view. Is there a way to fix it?
I have a copy of the product and want to activate it again on my new computer (windows 7) and the activating procedure doesn't let me do this via the internet and the phone support can not help me and asked me to get help from the website support center. Now I ask you: how can I acivate my copy of Freehand MX 11?
I am looking at switching from a powerbook to an iMac that is running OSX Mountain Lion, my version of Freehand is 11.0. What do I need to do to insure that when I receive my iMac that I can install Freehand and it will run?
Hi,
I'm using Freehand 8. I believe there was a patch software to take it to 8.0.1b but the Adobe site link page is no longer available, although Adobe support does mention how to install it.
Can anyone help supply or point me to a location where I can download it.
Many thanks.
Richard