It should come as no surprise, but Adobe Systems has officially declared an end to development of FreeHand illustration software and is trying to coax users to its rival Illustrator package. "After a ...

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After four years without significant revision, Adobe has confirmed plans to abandon FreeHand, though it will continue selling the MX version of the application for a while longer. The company is ...

When Adobe swallowed up Macromedia last year, one of the biggest topics of conversation was which applications would survive. Most people figured that where the product lines overlapped, the more ...

I knew this day would come, but I honestly didn’t think it would take this long. Earlier this week, Adobe’s John Nack, senior product manager of Adobe Photoshop, confirmed on his blog that my favorite ...

Free FreeHand alleges that Adobe has engaged in a series of exclusionary and anticompetitive acts and strategies designed to kill FreeHand, the dominant competitor to Adobe’s Illustrator software ...

Adobe's John Nack made an announcement today on the Adobe Blog that we all knew was coming: FreeHand has reached the end of its lifecycle. FreeHand, which was acquired when Adobe and Macromedia merged ...

The following article is excerpted from Digital Arts. Free FreeHand, a group of users of the elderly-but-still-available vector drawing application FreeHand, have followed through on their threat to ...

FreeHand, Macromedia's popular illustration tool, has been omitted from the company's upcoming developer suite, dubbed Studio 8. Macromedia executives cited "extensive research with our customers" as ...

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