Adobe has now certainly reached the limit of their abuse of market dominance. Yes, in a letter they say they will not use your content. But in their Terms of Use, you grant them the right to ownership of your work. And this makes it legally valid. Point 4.2 of the terms seems specifically written in...

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This would certainly be of very much help. At least for me to not have to keep old machines running.

A user sent us an information for a configuration to run Freehand MX on Apple Silicon Mac M1
(FreeHand MX running on Mac OS Tiger with QEMU)

https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html

We have not tested it ourself yet. Please if you do it, let us know about your experience.

As of now, OSXFH does not run on M1 chips.

Note from OSXFH.com: 4.26.2021 – OSXFH will NOT run on Apple’s new M1 chip. We are working on porting OSXFH to the new machines via Parallels V16.5 .

Had anyone experiences yet about using Parallells and OSXFH on Mac OS X Catalina?

Okay, some advice here for Affinity Designer users: As you certainly experienced, Affinity Designer can open FreeHand files, but the result is only usable for the most simple of files. But if you export your file from FreeHand in Adobe Illustrator format, Af Designer can open that and the result is ...

I tried it extensively. My problem was, I am too much used to Indesign and its´needs a lot of time to adapt if you use many features. For someone with enough time and specially for starters, I thinnk its good. (I was an avid QXpress user before Indesign)

So far I can say, it has a lot to do with the screen size choosen for the virtual OSXFH. Sluggish behaviour and mouse pointer precision are better for me now after I changed screen size to 2048x1536 or 2560x1600 but this depends on your display of course. Generally it seems important, to not change ...

Despite some good experiences, after quiet some working with Affinity I gave it up now. Why? Beause the color swatches in Affinity do not link to the objects. This is a major flaw that makes Affinity designer useless. It means, you set a swatch color then set one or several object fillings using tha...