Adobe FreeHand Development bites the Dust but FreeHand MX lives on

According to John Nack, Adobe's Senior Product Manager, Adobe has decided to pull the plug on further development of Freehand, Adobe's vector drawing application inherited in Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia. Adobe is still going to sell Freehand MX and support it but Adobe recommends that users migrate to Illustrator CS3.

The migration to Illustrator CS3 is aided by special upgrade pricing for registered Freehand owners of $199. In addition, Adobe has produced a series of documents to assist in the migration: FreeHand to Illustrator Migration Guide; Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: A technical resource; and Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator with Mordy Golding. All are available as PDFs from this Adobe Web page. [Bill Fox]