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From: MXC117@psuvm.psu.edu (mary carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Freehand vs Illustrator
Message-ID: <91022.180546MXC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 23:05:46 GMT
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In article <42890@ut-emx.uucp>, clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) says:
>Which just goes to show that features lists don't prove a whole lot. By
>the way, the text handling in the current version of Illustrator (3.0) is
>VASTLY improved. I rate it "usable" now.  :-)

Well......Illustrator 3.0 hasn't solved all of its problems with text yet. I
work in a graphics lab here at Penn State where we use both FreeHand and
Illustrator.  Just got the new version of Illustrator in.  We're working on
a project that is a pamphlet for ACSM containing about 85 map projections
generated by an IBM program and passed into Illustrator.  Getting the new
version, we decided to test it out by doing the 85 illustrations in it.  Time
to send it to the printer. (We're using a Linotronic typesetting machine at
printing services on campus -- don't ask me what model, only a few people are
allowed to go near the thing!)  Not a _single_ illustration will print in
Illustrator 3.0.  Everything had to be saved as Illustrator 88 and resent.
This was a bit of an inconvenience, since we, the printers, and Adobe tech
support couldn't figure out what was wrong.  They print in 88, but won't do
a damn thing other than crash the setup when run in 3.0.  So...Illustrator 3.0
does still have some bugs.

By the way, I'm biased toward FreeHand, but I'll use Illustrator if I have to.
Out of the employees in our lab, the general opinion is that you prefer the
program you learned first.

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Mary Carpenter
PSUCAC student consultant
PSUDOG cartographic production assistant, graphicist, and gopher