![]() We love DTM's tips and advice and think you will, too. This question was answered by Jay Nelson, Publisher & Editor, Design Tools Monthly. The advantage to this approach is that the text remains editable. PDF2ID costs $250, and it doesn't always convert everything perfectly, but their trial version lets you test it on 30 documents before buying it. The clever folks at point out another approach: export your FreeHand documents in PDF format, then use Recosoft's PDF2ID (a plug-in for InDesign) to convert the PDF to a native InDesign document. Unfortunately, it also converts all the text to outlines - which kills your ability to edit it as text. InDesign will convert all the shapes to native InDesign objects. In other words, you can drag and drop, or copy and paste, items from a FreeHand page directly onto an InDesign page. ![]() Do you have any suggestions?Ī little-known feature of FreeHand, even before it was acquired by Adobe, is that it's as compatible with InDesign as Illustrator is. The obvious solution is for them to learn and use Adobe InDesign, but getting their existing FreeHand content into InDesign seems impossible. When Adobe ended the life of FreeHand, we encouraged them to learn Adobe Illustrator but many of them either don't like Illustrator, or want to make multi-page documents (which Illustrator won't do). Our company works with a lot of designers whose layout and design tool of choice has always been FreeHand. Answered by Jay Nelson, Editor and Publisher, Design Tools Monthly
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