I say Micromedia Freehand is one stupid-ass programme! :nxs:

3 or 4 years ago I had to adjust the layout of a catalogue made on Freehand - believe me - it was hell. The PC was not the best it could be but it was fast enough to support Illustrator 7, Photoshop 5 and Pagemaker 6.52 all at the same time and a lot of additional stuff too... but this Freehand monster was so hungry for resources that I had to terminate every other application and it still didn't work well. And the file was nothing heavy - just some vector graphics with some small TIFFs

And making the postscripts took forever... and during the process there was no refreshing of the screen and whenever you pressed ctrl+alt+del you could see:

Micromedia FreeHand (Not Responding) :Oo:

although the software was running and making a postscript file :rant:

I don't know what version I had back there and what version is up now, but I hope I never have to see this crappy piece of software again in my life! I should sue Micromedia for the irreversible psychiatrical damage their software delivered to me...

The only think that I liked about it was that all the actions you could perform with an object were accessible through the right-click menu... and they slhould have been, cause the menus themselves were totally incomprehensible :bucky!:

My advise - while being a noob stick to software by one manufacturer (best choice - Adobe) The interface is very similar in all their products except for Adobe Framemaker (Which I think they bought off from another developer)

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