Re: FLASH: Freehand or Illustrator?

[John Dowdell]

At 9:37 AM 7/5/99, Tim wrote:

> Is that because it's... been around longer...?


Trivia note: The first PostScript drawing tool was actually... Fontographer!

    Although explicitly a font-creation tool, the Altsys folks found that

people were using Fontographer to create single-color vector art that would

print crisply at large font sizes on a printer.

    They then focused on making a real drawing tool... although Illustrator

was released a few months before FreeHand, the latter was named after its

then-revolutionary "freehand" drawing tool. This was copied into later

versions of Illustrator, and only recently was its name changed from

"freehand tool" to "pencil tool".... ;-)



As far as Illustrator vs FreeHand, the two tools share one area of

functionality -- creating single vector illustrations for use elsewhere --

but FreeHand also works in the larger multipublishing sphere too. The

ability to design multiple pages, to use graphic styles & search/replace,

the copyfitting, the HTML/SWF export, the faster display speed, the

worfklow shortcuts... it might be more sensible to compare FreeHand to the

Illustrator/InDesign bundle than to either of those tools alone.




> I want to get a package specifically for doing vector art which I

> can bring into Flash.


Have you seen Jim Hatlo's Thursday post here? He details some of the actual

practical differences that affect this set of goals:

Re: FLASH: Creating in Flash vs creating in Illustrator (long msg)



jd






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