Adobe FreeHand
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Two-dimensional vector graphics editing application
Key facts
- Other names
- Masterpiece (working title) Virtuoso (NeXTSTEP)
- Original author
- Altsys Corporation
- Developers
- Adobe Systems , formerly Macromedia
- Initial release
- 1988 ; 38 years ago ( 1988 )
- Final release
- MX (11.0.2) / 2003 ; 23 years ago ( 2003 )
- Operating system
- Mac OS X , Windows
- Type
- vector graphics editor
- Website
- www .adobe .com /mena_en /products /freehand /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- vector graphics editor
- Developer
- Aldus
- Official website
- www.adobe.com/mena_en/products/freehand
- Has use
- computer graphics
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- discontinuation date
- 2003-00-00
- Commons category
- FreeHand
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Encyclopedic overview
Macromedia FreeHand (formerly Aldus FreeHand) is a discontinued computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web. FreeHand was similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Designer Pro. Because of FreeHand's dedicated page layout and text control features, it also compares to Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. Professions using FreeHand include graphic design, illustration, cartography, fashion and textile design, product design, architects, scientific research, and multimedia production.
FreeHand was created by Altsys Corporation in 1988 and licensed to Aldus Corporation, which released versions 1 through 4. In 1994, Aldus merged with Adobe Systems and because of the overlapping market with Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand was returned to Altsys by order of the Federal Trade Commission. Altsys was later bought by Macromedia, which released FreeHand versions 5 through 11 (FreeHand MX). In 2005, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia and its product line which included FreeHand MX, under whose ownership it presently resides.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adobe FreeHand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.