Comments on: Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 http://peep.org/words/2007/03/adobe-creative-suite-30/ published whenever there is something to say Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: John Nack http://peep.org/words/2007/03/adobe-creative-suite-30/comment-page-1/#comment-6 John Nack Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:19:46 +0000 http://peep.org/words/?p=26#comment-6 FreeHand is indeed a casualty of Adobe, but not in the way you think: The market's clear adoption of Illustrator* lead Macromedia to move efforts away from FreeHand onto other, more promising efforts. The reality is that FH development had withered years before the Adobe-Macromedia deal was even announced, much less consummated. J. *Incidentally, I'm not saying that market adoption is some surefire measure of product quality. Both FH and AI have their strengths & their passionate fans. I'm simply pointing out that a lot more people use Illustrator than FreeHand, a situation that's persisted for several years now. FreeHand is indeed a casualty of Adobe, but not in the way you think: The market’s clear adoption of Illustrator* lead Macromedia to move efforts away from FreeHand onto other, more promising efforts. The reality is that FH development had withered years before the Adobe-Macromedia deal was even announced, much less consummated.

J.

*Incidentally, I’m not saying that market adoption is some surefire measure of product quality. Both FH and AI have their strengths & their passionate fans. I’m simply pointing out that a lot more people use Illustrator than FreeHand, a situation that’s persisted for several years now.

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