Freehand vs Illustrator

Listpeople

I have been finding a need for a  professional design vector drawing
software application over and over again in the last few months.  Most of
the time I seem to get around this via using various other products.

But what I need now is an honest, hands on series of options (or mini
reviews) on which of the two leading players I should choose. Macromedia's
Freehand or Adobe Illustrator.

I am very conversant with Photoshop and Flash so its a little hard to
choose.

I will consider other serious professional packages.  However note I find
that Corel Draw now suffers from the Bloatware syndrome.

Thanks for the advice in advance.


Gary Barber
Web Designer.

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