RE: Corel/Adobe

Freehand is the tool I use for vector work (Version 8).
It is nice to use and has pretty much the same abilities
as CD has had for a long time. It has transparency and
lens fills, etc that have been CD's strongpoint.

I have never used CD and only looked briefly at Illustrator 7.

As long as the program has an adequate feature set I think
that your own familiarity and understanding of it is more
important than which program you use.

A wizard with CD would beat me using Freehand because I'm
only a mediocre user, but I would achieve more/better using
Freehand than I would CD :-)

Freehand is available as a demo version from
http://www.macromedia.com/

Why not have a look and play.


Peter Williams
LAN Support/Webmaster
williams(at)hendersons.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Martin Krzywinski
> Subject: Corel/Adobe
>
> It's good to hear someone speak no-ill of CorelDRAW. I've been using
> nothing but this package for vector work and apart from the too-frequent
> crashes, it's great :)
>
> On the other hand, I've never really tried either Illustrator or Freehand.
> I'd be really interested in a *functional* comparison between these three
> packages. I'm not really interested in learning curve or interface issues,
> because given enough time the only thing that's holding you back is the
> actual capability of the software. I can't imagine *more* things that
> CorelDRAW could put in, as far as vector graphics go. It'd be nice to see
> a little more support for the bitmap/vector interface, like improving the
> transparent fills, but those things can be pretty well done somewhere
> else.
>

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