Comments on: Adobe Illustrator feature request video series

By: fabrica de desene

fabrica de desene — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:39:35 +0000

I use Freehand for 9 years now, and I don’t use it only for layouts, I also do drawings with this program. I would have no problem to switch to Illustrator if they would make Illustrator as easy to work with as Freehand.
What I strongly feel about Adobe’s decision to kill Freehand is that they don’t judge with their brains but they judge with their hearts. Imagine that Adobe would have in their portfolio a competitor software for Macromedia Flash. They would probably kill Flash as well.

By: fabrica de desene

fabrica de desene — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:39:00 +0000

By: illustrationISM

illustrationISM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:22:42 +0000

thanx garth for charging adobe's citidel! Freehand rocks illustrator off the merry-go-round! It was sooo much easier to use, and at our agency we had the 'illys' and the 'handers', we were always taunting each other when we found something under the hood that was better! to me 'ai' is like the 'pc' of programs when 'fh' was the 'mac'. IT WOULD BE GREAT if the proGRAMMAS would modify Ai with the better features of FH, like you demonstrated in the vid, but corpoRATIONS that we're 'stuck with to draw with' can't figure what the fuss's about... or what these little complaining squeeks are! mark @ ISM & BAMm

By: illustrationISM

illustrationISM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:22:00 +0000

By: illustrationISM

illustrationISM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:21:54 +0000

thanx garth for charging adobe's citidel! Freehand rocks illustrator off the merry-go-round! It was sooo much easier to use, and at our agency we had the 'illys' and the 'handers', we were always taunting each other when we found something under the hood that was better! to me 'ai' is like the 'pc' of programs when 'fh' was the 'mac'. IT WOULD BE GREAT if the proGRAMMAS would modify Ai with the better features of FH, like you demonstrated in the vid, but corpoRATIONS that were 'stuck with to draw with' can't figure what the fuss's about... or what these little complaining squeeks are! mark @ ISM & BAMm

By: illustrationISM

illustrationISM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:21:00 +0000

thanx garth for charging adobe's citidel! Freehand rocks illustrator off the merry-go-round! It was sooo much easier to use, and at our agency we had the 'illys' and the 'handers', we were always taunting each other when we found something under the hood that was better! to me 'ai' is like the 'pc' of programs when 'fh' was the 'mac'. IT WOULD BE GREAT if the proGRAMMAS would modify Ai with the better features of FH, like you demonstrated in the vid, but corpoRATIONS that were 'stuck with to draw with' can't figure what the fuss's about... or what these little complaining squeeks are! mark @ ISM & BAMm

By: yann

yann — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:00:42 +0000

It could have been great, but the guy seems to be a beginner with AI, a lot of his complains are just because he’s used to the FH way and doesn’t know the AI way to do the same thing. He’s got some valid points, but they tend to be buried under his inexperience…

It’s interesting to see how FH works(ed), for an AI user like me though… The polygon tool in FH seems indeed much better.

Another thing is the idea that because Adobe bought Macromedia, they can just put whatever FH feature they want in AI… As a developer, I can tell you that it would be GREAT if it was that easy… ;)

By: yann

yann — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting to see how FH works(ed), for an AI user like me though… The polygon tool in FH seems indeed much better.

By: walnut_tree

walnut_tree — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:20:22 +0000

I also dislike the Adobe Illustrator interface although I’ve not used Freehand.

What I can’t stand about Illustrator is how heavily dialog and panel-based it is. Everytime you want to do something, you have to open a dialog or floating palette. I’m sick of their floating-panel-for-everything approach to interface design.

I’m on a PC and personally think Xara (a PC-only vector illustration program) beats Illustrator hands-down in the usability stakes. Watching how Freehand creates stars/polygons in the video above, I think Xara still beats it.

There are some demo movies of the Xara interface here
http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/demos/

By: walnut_tree

walnut_tree — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:20:00 +0000

I also dislike the Adobe Illustrator interface although I’ve not used Freehand.

There are some demo movies of the Xara interface here
http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/demos/