
And FreeHand 9 lets you name and store custom page sizes. For starters, with FreeHand 9 you can create page sizes that are geared specifically for Flash output. Meanwhile, FreeHand 9 has already leapfrogged ahead. FreeHand 7 exported scalable graphics that were readable with a Shockwave player FreeHand 8 could convert blended paths to frames in a Flash animation.īy the time you read this, Illustrator 9 will have caught up with FreeHandversion 8, that is. Fortunately for FreeHand loyalists, their software of choice backed a winner early on. Yet four years after that format’s introduction, most illustration programs are just now jumping on board.

Just as Photoshop is a natural for creating Web imagery, drawing programs are ideally suited to vector-based SWF (Shockwave Format) content.
