Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia also cast doubt on the future of FreeHand, primarily because of Adobe's competing Illustrator product. Adobe initially announced in May 2006 that it planned to continue to support FreeHand and develop it "based on [their] customers' needs".[1] However, one year later on May 15, 2007, Adobe declared that it would in fact discontinue development and support of the program.[2]
Its sad to learn that Adobe soon after acquiring Macromedia has started shunning there simple, beautiful, user-friendly and light weighted products as a friend of mine bought Adobe CS3 Collection and didn't find FreeHand in there nor is mentioned on adobe.com
So I think FreeHand has died before reaching CS2 or CS3 Upgrades, instead we are provided with a hard to learn tutorial on How to switch from Freehand to Illustrator! Amazing
Also I learned that Macromedia's nice, easy to use/ understand/ search, comprehensive, user-friendly and Highly Detailed Help Documents are also replaced by Not so easy ... Help that opens in a separate window and gives us an option to search all adobe softwares at once, while we just want to search a keyword in Photoshop for instance! Amazing 2 :(
Please any Free / Open Source Software developers do something like FreeHand. or Anyone please buy back Macromedia from Adobe.
I love Macromedia. They were like Google; open, user-friendly, wanted there softwares to be easy and easily learned through there comprehensive help system. I like this kind of a company. I use to hate Photoshop Help System and NOW it has become a standard help system at Adobe. Amazing3 :(
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