Hi, everyonegusto wrote:Every time I try Illustrator, I get sick. I had high hopes when they added the like-Freehand option, something like CS3 or CS4, but it's not Freehand. I need the drag and drop eyedropper, the CMYK slider mixer, all the easy tools like trace click and 3D-lens, and all the glorious tools I take for granted till I'm trying to use Illustrator. There will never be another Freehand.
I'm a newbie here and I found this forum trying to see if there is a way to trick AI CS6 in order to open/import freehand files. I mean, I already read on adobe.com that CS6 doesn't open FH anymore, but I hoped maybe I could copy/paste the CS 5 plugin into CS 6 plugin folder... no way! Well, so I kept searching about Freehand because I miss so much Freehand that I can't tell!Then I saw a line in this post - I quoted above - that went straight to my heart
Anyway, I'm glad to find out (even late!) that are so many Freehand lovers
like me.I still believe that Freehand was the greatest illustration program - simple and powerful, easy to use, neat, clear, clever, smart etc etc etc.
Even I don't know, and I never will, the people who made literally this program, I thought often about them and how smart they must be.
Unfortunately in this world all incline to be about money...
ps. I saw a post that say there is no Freehand like workspace in CS 6 - tip: arrange manually the panels, freehand like, than save the workspace, give it a name, and you'll be able to use it as you like it - at least on Mac