I'm using Freehand 9 and it works pretty well under Windows 7 (oddly enough, and not even in Windows XP mode).
The trouble I'm having is that it likes to add strange characters before downloaded fonts in EPS and postscript files (also when printing to the Acrobat PDF driver). Freehand appends characters to the front of the font name like so:
ADCFAA+Fontnamehere
or
Gen_Fontnamehere
This causes distiller to not be able to find the system font, therefore the font isn't used and substituted with Courier. Freehand also inexplicably downloads some fonts to the postscript file while not others. Yes, the embed bit within the fonts are all set to "Installable", or full embedding allowed. If I manually edit the postscript file before distilling (removing the "ADCFAA+" or the "Gen_" strings), distiller will find the system font and embed it per the distiller setting. The fonts are postscript opentype format.
Any ideas how to fix this? Is there a userprep file which might help or some other setting?
Thanks,
Doug