Heartland

James Blast wrote:Beg to differ on the second app there Boss, FreeHand is a far better graphic illustration and page layout package, but Adobe swallowed up Macromedia and killed off FreeHand. We have CS2 at work and I have tried working with Illustrator but it falls short on so many levels that I have to flip back to FreeHand. Similarly, InDesign has a lot of bells and whistles that Quark XPress is lacking but for fast type formatting and body text manipulation, QXP beats ID every time. I do wish Adobe would just clean up its current version of Acrobat and Distiller (indispensable to a designer these days) instead of putting out a release with more extraneous tools. Photoshop I have absolutely nothing but praise for, from v.6 onwards it has been a gem. The major fear the design and print industry has is, Adobe becoming a behemoth like Micro$oft (spit!) and dictating the market. Quark and Apple have shot themselves in the foot far too often in the past, Apple seems to have learned its lesson but Quark will go the way of FreeHand if they don't get their act together pretty sharpish.

James Blast wrote:Beg to differ on the second app there Boss, FreeHand is a far better graphic illustration and page layout package, but Adobe swallowed up Macromedia and killed off FreeHand. We have CS2 at work and I have tried working with Illustrator but it falls short on so many levels that I have to flip back to FreeHand. Similarly, InDesign has a lot of bells and whistles that Quark XPress is lacking but for fast type formatting and body text manipulation, QXP beats ID every time. I do wish Adobe would just clean up its current version of Acrobat and Distiller (indispensable to a designer these days) instead of putting out a release with more extraneous tools. Photoshop I have absolutely nothing but praise for, from v.6 onwards it has been a gem. The major fear the design and print industry has is, Adobe becoming a behemoth like Micro$oft (spit!) and dictating the market. Quark and Apple have shot themselves in the foot far too often in the past, Apple seems to have learned its lesson but Quark will go the way of FreeHand if they don't get their act together pretty sharpish.