Re: FLASH: The Benefits of Freehand?

[Bryan Rieger]

Tom,


If you're working with Firework and Flash within your workflow - Freehand is

great for doing your layouts in. It works with Photoshop and AFterEffects

without any hitches at all. It allows us to manage large graphic projects -

colours, fonts, etc. that would have seen us going back to dozens of

illustrator files to make changes that could be done in one Freehand file in

minutes.


The only thing I have found is that most service bureaus prefer illustrator

files (they don't seem Freehand ones) or at least this was true in the

Toronto area. BTW - Freehand has a sweet print interface compared to

Illustrator - I've used it to run film, where I'd never even think of doing

that with Illustrator.


We switched when version 8 of both packages were released, and haven't

looked back.


Bryan


on 4/5/00 10:53 PM, Tom Green at

tgreen17home [dot] com

 wrote:

> John Dowdell wrote:

>> FreeHand complements Flash in many ways. I'm not sure what you're looking

>> for in particular, but here are quick notes:

>> 

>> --  FreeHand is a general design tool for multiple output formats. The more

>> design work you do in FreeHand, the greater the flexibility you have in

>> eventual destination.

> 

> <snip>

> 

> Just what I needed to hear, JD. After listening to Todd and others at

> FlashForward talk about FH9 and your post, I am now seriously considering

> moving Freehand into our curriculum next year and ratcheting down the focus on

> Illustrator.  Are there any compelling reasons from the group as to why I

> shouldn't?

> 



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