RE: FLASH: The Benefits of Freehand?

[John Dowdell]

At 2:30 PM 4/5/0, Jeremy Pinkham wrote:

> Of course, it would also be great if FreeHand would "catch up"

> to Illustrator's Gradient Mesh tool...


Hmm. In prioritizing that development it didn't seem like many people were

actually using it in ILL8, mostly because of its interface difficulties,

but also because of its output problems.


If those printer-specific effects are important to your daily work, though,

then the FreeHand wishlist could tab up that vote, thanks.




At 5:51 PM 4/5/0, Michael Dunn wrote:

> Coming from a print background (and working with print for 99%

> of my job) I have to say that some of Freehand's complex

> filters fail to transfer to film (transparency, etc).


Hmm, that's odd. FreeHand deliberately implemented lenses in a way that

would be printable by existing printers out there. You shouldn't have to

buy a new printer to have transparency!


(What's going on under the hood is that FreeHand implements the cloning and

paste-inside actions, so that you get the effect of a realtime lens while

actually producing normal PostScript.)


One way to get problems is if the amount of art and nested lenses exceeds

the printer's capability to rip as normal PostScript. How do you do on the

one-or-all-files test there...?




At 4:41 AM 4/6/0, Bryan Rieger wrote:

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

> illustrator files


Cool... FreeHand has always imported and exported the range of .AI formats

common at that time. Even effects like perspective and envelopes and lenses

will translate into a format that Illustrator can understand.


You haven't had any problems exporting to .AI format for a particular

service bureau, true...?



jd











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