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My main beef with it is that the pen tool STILL doesn’t have all of the options of Freehand. (I’m talking about the option-drag when you’re laying down beziers.)

Other than that, I can live with the wonkiness and better integration of AI.

There’s been a couple of other alternatives suggested there.

I’m also making this as a test post cause someone was saying it wasnt working earlier today..

If you are implying that we just bow down in front of Adobe with our $500 upgrade check and suck it up and use whatever they tell us to use, then yea, I implied the same in my post. ;o)

But I’m sincere in finding quality alternatives. I’m tired of having to fork over money to one vendor for all my design software. I think some alternatives are only a good thing for all of us. That and Illustrator just *isn’t* Freehand.

And yea, I like finding obscure software too.

If you are seriously a designer of some sort that knows and uses a vector drawing tool, then I think you know the answer to this question.

daniel…I imagine that is going to be the major disadvantage to all of the above applications outside of AI. Importing FH documents is obviously a necessity for anyone with a legacy library of FH documents.

I wonder if exporting your FH file as an AI file first might help?

Interesting that some of the apps are aiming for AI import, when perhaps they really should be focusing on FH import first to win over some folks discouraged by Adobe.

tried all the (mac) ones, neither one of them could import freehand files with layers, or styles etc. and that’s one of the first needs for me, otherwise i have to create all my from scratch. (city maps with lots of text and elements)