Paul Strydom

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• July 24, 2007, on Illustrator v. Freehand:

  Firstly I would like to state that the comments are very old and allot has changed from then to now so here is some updated news, I have been in the print industry using Freehand 3 - MX 11.02 and using Illustrator 5 - CS3 13.0.1 and I prefer Illustrator for many reasons. Freehand is not Postscript level 3 compliant even though level 3 has been around for about 8 years, what this means is that Freehand can only reproduce 256 levels of grey whereas Illustrator is level 3 and can produce the same gradient with 4096 levels of grey. Freehand is not updated enough and will not ever go past version 11.0.2 and therefor will not take advantage of the new apple Intel chips. Freehand loses information when ungrouping objects, try this example in version 11. Make a new page, draw 2 squares with no stroke and a fill of black, group the 2 items, stroke the group with a 4-pt cyan stroke, now ungroup. oops where did your stroke go. Freehand gives features that do not work try a pattern fill...