Adobe kills off Freehand, GoLive
During last week's Adobe Live event, Adobe announced that it would halt development of Freehand and GoLive, according to Macsimum News. The programs are the first to be axed since Adobe's acquisition of the company late last year. Their elimination is not unexpected, though, since the products overlapped Adobe's Illustrator and Macromedia's Dreamweaver, respectively. Though the programs' development will cease, Adobe intends to continue to support the products, and back in April the company released a Freehand to Illustrator migration guide (PDF).[Image from Flash Insider]
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superg said 6:34PM on 5-30-2006
Macromedia made Dreamweaver, not Go Live. Kinda interesting, as Adobe is basically saying that Dreamweaver is better than Go Live, but Illustrator is better than Freehand.
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Ivan Lubiano said 6:59PM on 5-30-2006
@superg:
From personal experience with all the programs mentioned, I must say that what you have said is spot on.
Dreamweaver is leaps and bounds ahead of Go Live, and Illustrator is so much better than Freehand that they aren't even in the same league.
Well, at least that's what I think.
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james 42 said 9:09PM on 5-30-2006
I know I am an oddball, I prefer GoLive. I tried Dreamweaver several times and always wound up back with my text editor. I started using GoLive and stuck with it, still occasionally using the text editor though.
I would bet (hope) that the good parts of GoLive find there way into Dreamweaver.
Yeah, Illustrator is better (IMHO) then Freehand, but it still blows. I have better drawing tools in CAD programs, and they don't crash as much. Illustrator always felt like the ugly step child compared to Photoshop. Photoshop seems more intuitive (this is relative) and I can't remember the last time I crashed it, not so with Illustrator.
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symmet said 3:59PM on 5-31-2006
"Illustrator always felt like the ugly step child compared to Photoshop. Photoshop seems more intuitive (this is relative) and I can't remember the last time I crashed it, not so with Illustrator."
Illustrator and Photoshop are for two different things.
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