What's your preference: Freehand or Illustrator?
Ivan | Tue, 2004-08-10 19:34I started with Illustrator and loved it, than I was forced to use Freehand and hated it. Than slowly I got used to it and now I love it. Now, again I'm forced back to Illustrator and I can't stand it. I really think Freehand is a much better layout app.
I miss the function of selecting the objects below with simple combos and the possibility to widen your selection within a group withing a group. I also miss the paste into and many other functions of Freehand.
I come from a digital printing background and have had this discussion many times. I always been an avid Illustrator user, but I have had to support both. Personally I prefer Illustrators drawing tools, and it can parse an .eps file like no other. I also think that Freehand's color management is for the birds. From a production standpoint, Freehand has some nice advantages including multiple pages. But if you combine Illustrator with Indesign you get a powerful package that can rival most of Freehand's advantages. That's just my two cents.
i really look at the two differently...
illustrator for illustrating and freehand for single page layout... then off to indesign for multi-page layout.
gotta have em all!
I'm with larusson on this one. Freehand for things like single pages ads, etc, and then for multi-page mailouts, etc I use InDesign. For any vector work I do (logos, logotypes, etc) definitely Illustrator. I think the main reason for this is just because I know Illustrator inside and out, all the shortcut keys and the like, so it's just a lot more efficient for me.
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