Your feedback for the Adobe presentation

[FFH Mark]

[alexgab]

Well, by reading this presentation I've found even features that I was not aware back in time while I was using FH fulltime.

Over time, I getting used to work with AI, but my still BIG complains are: paste inside feature and the really poor-poor-poor text management, specially with soft breaks.

Regards
Alex

[Vitaminado]

A great presentation indeed...people keeps on forgeting one of the most professional features in Freehand...THE HALFTONE PANEL...a tool you only see now in programs like Esko Artpro...

This tool gives you the power of multiple screens, dot shapes and angles in a single page.

[stoltenhoff]

the presentation is great and i found some points i just did'nt know, although i'm using freehand since 20 years also it's a surprise how bad illustrator is in 2013. adobe should distribute it as shareware.

thank you,
jan

[garethglynn]

Information-wise, this is brilliant work.

I think it could be enhanced with a short snappy summary up-front to get the initial attention from managers who respond to 'elevator pitch' messaging.

I don't think 'Illustrator must be combined with
InDesign in order to replace FreeHand entirely' sends the right message, since Adobe clearly wants to sell CS (ID, AI, PS) rather than individual programmes.

[krollian]

Well. And what about select all the points of a square to convert them in curves at the same time? You must select 3, and then the last one (the fourth)...

Congrats for the document

[gusto]

I can't warm up to the MS-Paint-like paint-bucket dumper multi-cliking in Illustrator, I like to drag&drop the color from the mixer panel or drag&drop (one click, not two) with the FH eyedropper tool from bitmaps and vectors.

[frederick]

[FFH Mark]

[yellowpaws]

After being lucky enough to attend a meeting with the Adobe team in which this presentation was shared (thanks Mark!), I have to say that I am more interested in see additional vector tools added to InDesign, than I am having them fix Illustrator.

I currently keep two iMacs on my desk, one with Freehand and an old operating system, and one with CS5 and the newer OS. I have been getting rather good at doing the bulk of my work in ID, using Illustrator to just open up EPS' for cut and paste into ID. I explained all of this to the Adobe team and expressed my desire for ID to be a more complete designer piece of software as I have no intention of spending any more time or money trying to fit Illustrator into my life. They seemed interested in that concept. So many of the "issues" I have with Illustrator have already been "fixed" in InDesign. Maybe it's the transition from PageMaker, but ID is just easier to use.

It's a thought anyway.