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Macromedia FreeHand MX - 11.0

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All Time: (2.4)
Version 11.0: (2.2)
Selected Version: 11.0
Release Date: 2003-02-10
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 11.0): 7,914
Downloads (all versions): 94,985
Price: $399.00 New
$99.00+ upgrade

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FreeHand is the tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. FreeHand's uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper infographics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.

What's new in this version:

  • Multiple Attributes - Add more visual punch to your designs and illustrations—apply unlimited stroke, fill, and effect attributes to a single vector or text object. Multiple attributes eliminate the need to stack duplicates of an object to create a particular appearance, making updates easier, faster, and leaving fewer objects to manage.
  • Object Panel - Now you can quickly inspect and change object and text properties—such as stroke, fill, font, or effect—in one centralized location. In addition, the new Object panel provides localized stacking control of multiple attributes for unlimited and unique visual appearances. You can also drag and drop between the Object and Styles panels to create, edit, and redefine graphic and text styles.
  • Live Effects - Maximize creative expression with live effects, which apply complex distortions and effects without altering the original object. FreeHand MX includes vector effects (such as bend, sketch, and transform) and raster effects (like bevel, drop shadow, and gradient transparency). The complete control of ordering provided in the Object panel allows you to apply effects in any order, to all or selected attributes of the object.
  • Live-Edit Graphic Primitives - Quickly and easily reshape rectangles, ellipses, and polygons while maintaining the control and editability of FreeHand MX graphic primitives. Easily round rectangle corners and mix concave or convex, convert ellipses to arcs, or change polygons to stars with editable numbers of points.
  • Macromedia MX Workspace - Cut learning time and speed development with the new easy-to-use Macromedia MX user interface. Design in a flexible, integrated workspace that's shared across all the Macromedia Studio MX products. Dockable panels can be grouped together, collapsed, or expanded as needed, providing a smooth, highly configurable workflow.
  • Macromedia Flash MX Integration - Increase productivity and streamline development of Macromedia Flash MX projects. Plan, layout and design entire projects in single document. Now you can even import more complex Macromedia Flash movies (SWFs) into your FreeHand MX document and integrate them into your designs before exporting back out to SWF with improved efficiency. Placed SWFs can be edited using the new launch and edit in Macromedia Flash MX functionality. Macromedia Flash MX can also open and import FreeHand MX files.
  • Action Tool - Drag and drop complex Macromedia Flash MX actions between objects, symbols, and pages. Assign simple actions like Go To and Play, or Go To and Stop, as well as more complex behaviors such as Get URL or Load External Movie.
  • Connector Lines Tool - Quickly map information architecture, data flows, and site maps with the Connector Lines tool. Just drag the tool to assign persistent relationships between objects. Connector Line styles let you completely customize the appearance of connectors and quickly apply them.
  • New Creative Capabilities - Realize your creative vision in new ways with a collection of new and enhanced tools and functionality. Create exciting 3D appearances with the Extrude tool, which gives complete live control over extrude attributes, including 3D rotations, lighting, and shared vanishing points. Drag and drop the Blend tool to create and modify live blends, or use the Eraser tool to modify paths in a new, organic way. Additionally, FreeHand MX now provides alpha channel support for imported bitmaps.
  • Fireworks MX Integration - Streamline your graphics development workflow with enhanced Fireworks MX integration. Launch and edit imported bitmap images with a single click in the FreeHand MX Object panel, make your changes in Fireworks MX, then click back in FreeHand MX— your image is now updated, without losing any effects or transformations applied to the original FreeHand MX image. You can also open or import FreeHand MX files directly in Fireworks MX, with improved vector and text reliability and editability.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • PPC
  • 32 MB RAM
  • Mac OS 9.1 or higher
    or
  • Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

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Version 11.0:
Overall Rating: (2.2) Features: (3.5) Support: (2.7)
Ease of Use: (3.0) Quality / Stability: (2.8) Price: (2.6)
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Macromedia FreeHand MX ReviewFreeHand is quite possibly the best vector drawing application ever made. - Version: 11.0.2, 9/17/2009 10:21PM PST

bezbiz--2008
Check out this question on Free FreeHand Q&A: How can I get FreeHand 11.02 to work under Snow Leopard? http://freefreehand.yousaidit.com/questions/5234-how-can-i-get-freehand-11-02-to-work-under-snow-leopard
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Macromedia FreeHand MX CommentarySnow Leopard info - Version: 11.0.2, 8/30/2009 08:06PM PST

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troydnlsn
It seems if you have a single user serial Snow Leo wont run Freehand. Those with volume serials are in luck. Check out the Adobe forums for more info.

Please Adobe - do right by Freehand users and fix this problem!
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Macromedia FreeHand MX CommentaryFreehand DOES work in Leopard - Version: 11.0.2, 7/22/2008 07:37AM PST

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afterhours
I don't know what the previous poster is relating to... but Freehand MX certainly does work in Leopard. There are some warts. The biggest is some kind of font irregularity where things may need to be proofed as a PDF, or working around Apple's silly commandeering of Helvetica Neue as an OS font. But Freehand DOES work in 10.5.

Why does Adobe cripple one's ability to apply updates by not posting the 11.0.1 updater. They are really a pain in the as$ about maintenance updates and that horrid thing they call a website. Three monkeys using PageMill could have done better.
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