Taking the Leap of Faith

This appendix is already way over its space budget. It would have to be an entire book to exhaustively compare every feature of FreeHand to Illustrator. But if it functions well as a "leg up" over the initial getting-acquainted curve, it will have served its purpose.

So hop to it FreeHanders. The Illustrator community needs you. Put your noses to the Illustrator grindstone and try to learn its every nuance. Then, when you're up-to-speed (it won't take long), be sure to let Adobe know what you like and don't like about Illustrator; what you've always loved about FreeHand; and that what we're all expecting from them is an absolutely best-ever vector drawing program (Adobe is always happy to hear from its users).