| # | Name | Comments |
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| 151 | Harley J. | Adobe might believe this a good decision for them, but this has to be the most appalling way to treat the many thousands of longstanding FreeHand users, and it's my guess they'll lose more goodwill than they'll gain over this decision, certainly in the short term. Just where is Adobe's courtesy? And why are they hanging on to the rights to software they refuse to develop? The least they can do is release it into the public domain for open source development. Illustrator is no contest in my opinion. |
| 152 | Michael Hajek | |
| 153 | Wolfgang Oldigs | If you've gotta earn money as a serious graphic designer, you've gotta use Freehand. If you wanna design the invitation cards for your grannies 80ies birthday, use Illustrator and Corel. Every software will find its customers. |
| 154 | Anonymous | If you plan to drop Freehand, please sell or make it Open Source. Thanks. |
| 155 | lara | Freehan è stato il più maneggevole e versatile programma di design... non si può IMPORRE un altro software solo per un idea commerciale ed vanificare anni di esperienza e lavoro di tanti grafici |
| 156 | Anonymous | I love it and I use it since years. |
| 157 | Gavin Le Burn | I have used Freehand for years so this will be a sad blow to me. |
| 158 | Nelson Pereira | Let Freehand alive! Set the power of Illustrator to a new Freehand, and you'll have the best vector program EVER! |
| 159 | Thomas Müller | |
| 160 | Rolando M. | I learned how to use computers with FreeHand. I learned the graphic design business with FreeHand. I learned using FreeHand since version 3. I learned that many people, including this petition designers, still don't capitalize FreeHand's middle "H". How are we supposed to keep Illustrator instead? |
| 161 | Anonymous | much better than illustrator |
| 162 | Jake Teton-Landis | I used this for eons before I even looked at illustrator, and after 3 years in Illustrator, I still long for Freehand. Bring it back! |
| 163 | Jacques Kloppers | Freehand is dead. Long live Freehand!
Seriously, this app is without peer. When the migration guide (from Adobe) lists multiple references to things Illustrator can't do that Freehand can, then you know the world is a sadder and less efficient place.
Adobe, let us know that you'll be incorporating Freehand's functionality into the next version of Illustrator ASAP. |
| 164 | Bronwynne Havenga | Software giants only think of there own coffers and forget about the avergae joe! |
| 165 | Peter Hudson | |
| 166 | Klaus Hagemann | Ich arbeite mit FreeHand seit Version 3 und mit Illustrator erst seit Version CS2. Deshalb ziehe ich FreeHand natürlich schon aus Gewohnheit vor. Doch obwohl Illustrator einige coole Funktionen wie das Verlaufsraster und das interaktive Malen bietet und in CS3 endlich erstmalig eine ordentliche Punktbearbeitung erhalten hat, halte ich FreeHand nach wie vor für das bessere, schnellere und intuitivere Programm. In Illustrator vermisse ich vor allem die ausgefeilte Suchen/Ersetzen-Funktion für Schriftart und Grafik, das mehrseitige Layout mit Master-Seiten, das Benutzen von RGB- und CMYK-Farben in einem Dokument, das schnelle Auswählen von hintereinander liegenden Objekten, die Möglichkeit, eingebettete Bilder zu extrahieren, eine schnelle Pfeilspitzen-Erstellung, die praktische "innen einsetzten"-Funktion, die umschaltbaren Textboxen (feste und variable Größe) und kleinere nützliche Funktionen wie z.B. "Alle Farben definieren". Schade, dass Adobe aus rein marktwirschaftlichen Gründen und ohne "künstlerischen" Respekt vor einem grossartigen Produkt FreeHand aussortieren will - und das, obwohl Adobe noch bis vor kurzem zu FreeHand schrieb: Adobe plant weiterhin neue Produkte und Programmversionen...
Liebe Adobe-Leute: FreeHand ist das ausgereiftere Programm. Wenn man als Firma ein Produkt kauft, das viele Grafiker benutzten, übernimmt man auch eine Verantwortung für dieses Produkt und die Nutzer. Bitte entwickeln Sie FreeHand weiter oder verkaufen Sie FreeHand bzw. geben den Code frei - oder bauen sie wirklich alle Features sehr bald auch in Illustrator ein und sorgen Sie dafür, das auch ältere FreeHand-Dateien sauber in diesem neuen Illustrator geöffnet werden können. |
| 167 | Pascal Nerk | |
| 168 | Jarmo Haapasalmi | No new Freehand no new Mac, hope the G5 2x2 runs long... |
| 169 | Anonymous | Freehand good, Illustrator not. Better, faster, more intuitive working with FreeHand. Let Illustrator die instead of Freehand!!! |
| 170 | Florian Sebald | to stop freehand is not innovative and user-friendly. you as a conzern have a accountibility! you could earn respect by thinking about solutions, you could lost users by stopping freehand. |
| 171 | Anonymous | Please keep FreeHand alive |
| 172 | Martin J. H. | __Please__ Adobe __integrate__ all great and unique Freehand features into AI, then all people where happy!! |
| 173 | gianluigi | Adobe ha deciso che milioni di utenti debbano cambiare software...
Ha deciso per noi?
io ho frequentato un corso di grafica pubblicitaria conclusosi alla fine del 2005 in cui mi e' stato insegnato Freehand per ovvie ragioni di impaginazione e gestioni varie che illustrator non supporta...
ho speso circa 5.000 euro e ora adobe decide che devo buttare tutto al vento perche' loro con un atteggiamento camorristico acquistano freehand, software che ha sempre messo in ombra illustrator impedendone il decollo, e lo cancellano dal mercato forzando tutti gli utenti ad una perdita di tempo e di denaro per soddisfare l'ego di illustrator???
tutto questo non vi sembra dittatoriale?
Adobe si comporta come chi fa mafia e nessuno puo' per questo intervenire?
Personalmente non ho voglia di imparare un software che non mi consente di fare cose che attualmente faccio con freehand, non mi va di imparare un software che non mi serve, e non voglio spendere soldi in corsi o in libri quando io il software che voglio lo conosco e lo uso gia.
Per altro tutti i miei progetti dal web alla stampa sono in freehand e quanti giorni dovrei spendere per migrare a illustrator?
ma perche' poi devo farlo?
cosa sono queste imposizioni?
siamo nati liberi di decidere?
Adobe di costringe con atteggiamento dittatoriale camorristico e mafioso ad usare un software anziche' un'altro e questo e' contro la legge che regola la democrazia.
Io sono gia stato dal mio avvocato e improntero' una causa contro adobe.
invito chiunque si senta come me a fare lo stesso.
grazie |
| 174 | Adele | SAVE FREEHAND! |
| 175 | Anonymous | Here a comment from this petition's initiator - me: ;-)
I sent this petition's address to Adobe.com and asked them to kindly react to this. 2 times.
No reply at all.
Maybe some of you who signed this would like to tell them about this petition as well? That would be nice. |
| 176 | Anonymous | Yay! Long live Freehand!! |
| 177 | Mikael Gormsen | It's a scandal! May Adobe burn in hell! |
| 178 | Yukari Tsuko | Why waste time with Illustrator and InDesign when Freehand does both jobs in one package. if Adobe will not support it they must pass it on to some one who will |
| 179 | Anja Martin | |
| 180 | Lorenzo Calonaci | Save freehand!!! No FreeHand? STOP to buy ADOBE products!!!!!!!!! And new mac's to. |
| 181 | Caspar Mathias | please keep freehand alive! |
| 182 | Edgar Brandau | DO NOT KILL FREEHAND !!!
It's the best vector drawing application ever built and ADOBE must show the due respect to all the Freehand fans all over the world. DO NOT MONOPOLIZE! DO NOT OVERRULE OUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE !!! |
| 183 | Laura Napoli | Freehand must live! |
| 184 | David Gold | Please let freehand live, and develop Freehand 12
it is way better than AI, and I've been earning a living with it for 16 years. |
| 185 | Dean Roksandic | I cannot work without Freehand. For the years I tried to switch to Illustrator but with no success, I always returned to FH. Adobe, I won't buy Illustrator because I have Freehand. I'll rather switch to alternative like Xara. It should be in Adobe's interest to keep so many customers satisfied. |
| 186 | Leslie | Keep Freehand Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 187 | Zac Paulic | Illustrator an Freehand is not the same.
Freehand is still the most intuitive and faster vector program.
Please continue developing or sell it (or make it Open Source).
Freehand must not die!!! |
| 188 | John Gallagher | It will always be my preferred drawing tool, Illustraitor doesn't come close. |
| 189 | Jules Vickerman | PLEASE don't let Freehand die, I work with it 35 hours a week at work and in my spare time too at home. It will be like losing part of me! I also teach it to my students as it really can't be beaten. Develop it or sell it but don't just let it sit there. |
| 190 | Armadillo | Kill the bugs instead! |
| 191 | fsdfsd | dasdad |
| 192 | davecc | KEEP FREEHAND ALIVE. |
| 193 | Anna K. | |
| 194 | George Vlamakis Designs | i switched from illustrator to freehand about 8 years ago because it let me draw faster and with less constraints of over technical bells and whistles that i rarely ever used.
right now i'm running fh mx on and intel imac and its never run faster.
i have no intention to switch back to illustrator because its too slow but would consider purchasing a copy if it could at least open fh files in their true form which is unfortunately not the case with cs3.
long live freehand!!! |
| 195 | Chris Hall | Sell FreeHand to some other company please. |
| 196 | Anonymous | Please, support freehand. I will buy another upgrade!!! |
| 197 | Anonymous | I have been a primary user of FH for
10+ years... and will continue to design
with it! I've got thousands of FH
documents and I intend to make 1000's
more! It's sad that corporate America is
so bottom line driven, it can't see the
real folks in driving seat... We designers, artist,
photographers, architects...etc... have helped
make ADOBE what it is today. And FH deserves a
rebirth... Stand-Up People! They Must Listen!
There is a market for this Incredible Software! |
| 198 | Anonymous | I own my copy of Freehand. Upgrade it and I'll purchase it. |
| 199 | Michael Maier | Illustrator CS 3 is a joke compared to Freehand.
It needs 1 GB of space on your HD. What is it for? |
| 200 | PHD | Illustrator is not an alternative... it just cannot replace FH as it stands |