Adobe is trying to encourage upgrades to the CS3 version of Illustrator; registered users can pay $199, about a third of its regular $599 price tag. Freehand has a long history, at least in ...

Adobe will continue to sell FreeHand MX and will offer technical and customer support. The company is also offering a $199 discount upgrade deal to FreeHand users choosing to migrate to Illustrator.

FreeHand then passed back to Altsys (which allowed Adobe to avoid any antitrust issues involving owning the two dominant illustration programs on the market), which was sold to Macromedia. Ultimately, ...

Free FreeHand, a group of users of the elderly-but-still-available vector drawing application FreeHand, have followed through on their threat to sue Adobe, accusing the design giant of ...

After this story broke, Adobe denied that Freehand and GoLive were on the chopping block, telling Macworld that "Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products ...

Adobe’s senior product manager of Photoshop, John Nack, says that Adobe will retire the long stagnant FreeHand application in favor of the company’s flagship drawing program, Adobe Illustrator ...

Adobe Illustrator CS3 (single user upgrade from FreeHand, Windows) By ABC News May 18, 2007, 2:49 PM ...

FreeHand was made by Macromedia, which Adobe purchased in 2003. In time Adobe phased out FreeHand as well as Macromedia’s GoLive web site creation tool in favor of its own (and competing) Illustrator ...

FreeHand, which was acquired when Adobe and Macromedia merged in 2005, was a vector illustration application that used to compete with the much more powerful Illustrator.

Adobe is working to make the switch easier for FreeHand users. According to the FAQ, "Illustrator CS3 includes the new ability to import FreeHand 10 and MX files directly and with higher fidelity ...

After this story broke, Adobe denied that Freehand and GoLive were on the chopping block, telling Macworld that “Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based ...

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