Here's a note on the Graphics Forum on About.com
"Hi - I've been doing a little looking at what the new software is offering...
If you've used Freehand and have or are making the switch to AICS3 then I'd strongly recommend you do cos they've managed to listen to people and have included quite a few of freehands features including colour management ie finding and replacing colours, they've fixed the masking (paste inside to fh users) alignment etc now goes by the mask outline not the content Yaaayyyy!!! plus a really awesome colour selection tool.... it would really be worth at least an upgrade.
The other apps play really nice too - drag and drop - place PSD images into Flash and dreamweaver Flash now uses the same vector engine as AI so you can open native AI files in Flash and all attributes stay true... there's a lot that will make life so much easier and no I haven't been paid to say these things just what I have observed from articles and the adobe website feature tours!
Just to rub a little salt in to the wounds.. we just got the CS2.3 suite and can upgrade VERY cheaply to CS3 as soon as it's available... I'll let you know what it's like if you like!"
Soooo - some of the features will be on IllCS3
"Hi - I've been doing a little looking at what the new software is offering...
If you've used Freehand and have or are making the switch to AICS3 then I'd strongly recommend you do cos they've managed to listen to people and have included quite a few of freehands features including colour management ie finding and replacing colours, they've fixed the masking (paste inside to fh users) alignment etc now goes by the mask outline not the content Yaaayyyy!!! plus a really awesome colour selection tool.... it would really be worth at least an upgrade.
The other apps play really nice too - drag and drop - place PSD images into Flash and dreamweaver Flash now uses the same vector engine as AI so you can open native AI files in Flash and all attributes stay true... there's a lot that will make life so much easier and no I haven't been paid to say these things just what I have observed from articles and the adobe website feature tours!
Just to rub a little salt in to the wounds.. we just got the CS2.3 suite and can upgrade VERY cheaply to CS3 as soon as it's available... I'll let you know what it's like if you like!"
Soooo - some of the features will be on IllCS3