Re: FLASH: Freehand or Illustrator?

[G. Jefferson]

They're both good, but avoid Illustrator 7. There are lots of pros and cons.

Freehand is better for text handling and multi-page doocuments -- about as

good as PageMaker. Illustrator 8 has a prettier user interface, does mesh

gradients and handles 2-byte character sets such as Chinese, Japanese and

Korean -- Macromedia, please address this *stupid* limitation.


If your vector work will be mainly done in conjunction with Flash, HTML and

lots of typography, and you don't need Kanji etc,  Freehand whould be your

choice, IMHO. If your vector work would be mainly for illustrations for

print media, go for Illustrator 8.


Gareth.


> I'm trying to decide which to purchase:  Freehand or Illustrator.  I want

> to get a package specifically for doing vector art which I can bring into

> Flash.  From my understanding, Freehand is better integrated with Flash but

> Illustrator is more polished and has more features.  It seems that there

> are more Illustrator users.  Is that because it's better or has been around

> longer and is part of the Photoshop family?  Any comments?

>



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