Freehand & Windows 7

Does completely work on Windows 7 or are there compatibility issues?
Can't create PDF's via the print dialog and cannot export as PDF or EPS.
Need to know for certain if these features no longer work with Windows 7 or if something went awry on my installation.
Thank you.

Hey, I’ve been using windows 7 for about 3 months now and I´m yet to install something that the OS doesn’t run ( luck maybe...).
I’ve installed FreeHand and so far no problems, although I havent been using it very often.

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I just installed Freehand 11.0.2, the graphic axe I've been
using for at least five years through various upgrades, after
having removed all traces of a previous installation of ALL the
programs in my MX 2004 suite to start over with a pure,
Macromedia-free set up (sigh). While the Macromedia disk used for
the install tested fine on another XP SP2 computer, on mine the
very first run of the program opens with problems: the particularly
ugly shades o' gray Welcome to Freehand" blurb on screen one (on my
two screen system) and a blank Freehand window on screen two (not
under the blurb on screen one where it should be) - and the blank
window has NO new blank file opened inside, and no tool bars or
palettes either.
Opening a new file from the menu doesn't do anything but
present a new file - still no palettes or panels, despite both
being turned on for viewing in the menus (and they all work from
right-click). I've tried ALL of the fixes provided by Adobe in Tech
note 13186 as suggested by Judy Arndt earlier, to no avail. Even
reconfigured my system to one-screen-only as a test. Nope.
Because the program appears to perform correctly on other
systems I thought the problem must be with my system. But I have no
other pallete or tool bar issues with other apps in my "designer's
toolbox" and specifically none with the other programs in the MX
2004 suite and anyway, Freehand isn't even painting it's own
automatic new install/first-run opening screens correctly, a step
so early in the first-run process that it's hard to believe
anything significant already resident on my computer is mucking it
up.
I have to think there's a snippet of code somewhere that
Freehand (and apparently Freehand alone) references first thing
when it starts up, and that snippet's corrupt. Needless to say, I
haven't a clue about how to attack that. Would really appreciate
help from any propeller head out there... and thanks in advance.
I'll even tackle Registry changes without a backup first (gasp!) if
I have to.
Jim

FreeHand has Show/Hide Panels and Show/Hide Toolbars
commands. The keyboard
shortcuts work as an on/off toggle.
I wonder if something on your PC system is sending FH the
Hide commands. To
test this theory, customize your keyboard shortcuts for
View>Panels and
View>Toolbars. Try one of the F-keys with no modifier.
Mac users have had a similar problem for Show/Hide Grids and
Show/Hide
Guides, where new customized shortcuts work around the issue.
Judy Arndt

Why i can't open freehand files in Windows which are created in Mac??

As i use Mac to operate freehand in my company. But when i open those files at home by using Windows freehand, i can't open them? Why?? Please help..thanks!

Most obvious - make sure the Mac file have the correct ".FH10" file extension.
I use FHMX on Windows7 and regularly open Mac files from FH8 without any dramas.
Try back-saving the Mac files to FH8 (with .FH8 file extension) and opening those on the PC.
Failing that, convert individual layers to PDF open those on the PC and re-assemble the drawing.
Good Luck

Will Freehand 5 or any Freehand run on Windows 7, 64 bit OS?

Will Freehand 5 or any Freehand program run on Windows 7, 64 bit OS?

If it works on Windows 8 it should work on Widows 7, read here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1150039?tstart=30

Is freehand 11 mx compatible with windows 8?

Is it compatible? Can I use win8 compatible mode or anything?

Well, according to Microsoft community the answer is yes to FreeHand MX on Win 8:
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Freehand MX and Windows Vista????

New to the forums,
I have been using Freehand since it first came out and this
past week I switched over to Windows Vista.
I'm running Freehand MX and it works really great except for
PRINTING!!!! I've tried everything I can think of, I even
downloaded new print drivers(Vista update) for my HP LaserJet 5200.
I can't get any printer to work.
The error reads: Could not complete your request because read
or write access has been denied, then the printer will print off an
error sheet: Postscript error: syntaxerror Offending Command.
Oh, I'm also trying to print through our network.
If anyone has a simple fix to this problem PLEASE HELP!!!!!
I'm trying to avoid switching to Illustrator CS4 which I also
have and it runs great on Vista, printing works great too!
Thanks,
Indyrebel

Unfortunately, this is Adobe's official response to FHMX on
Vista:
Does Adobe plan to provide an update to FreeHand MX that will
support Microsoft Windows Vista?
Adobe has no plans to deliver a FreeHand MX release that
supports Microsoft® Windows® Vista™.
CS4 Illustrator will open your FH file(s) however. You can
print from there. (Personally, I use FHMX for ALL my illustration
work and switch to CS3 for converting files or for printers needing
native AI files from FH.)
Indyrebel: If you haven't already, be sure to add your voice
to the forum thread asking Adobe To Upgrade Freehand !

Freehand 9 Windows install problem

I have received from a client a couple of Freehand files (.FH9) that don't seem to be translating into Illustrator (I tried Illy 8 and Illy CS2) properly. I still have my Freehand 9 CD, so I thought I would try to re-install Freehand and save out the files in EPS format. I haven't used Freehand for a number of years.
But, when I try to install on any of my XP systems, nothing happens. I get the unpacking dialogs, but that's about it. 2 machines are running XP Pro 32 bit, and one XP Pro 64 bit. Same result on all of them. One one system, I got some more unpacking dialogs after about 5 minutres of no activity, but then, no more.
Anyone have any ideas?
TIA!

Usually the Next button does not highlight until the install
program
recognizes the serial number as a valid formated number. It's
most
likely they are missing a number, used lowercase letters
instead of
uppercase, did not use dashes when required (or vice versa),
or
something else small but wrong.
MX does require product activation but if they are not online
it should
give them the option to call a toll-free number.
Rich
Digital Daydreams wrote:
> Hi
> Here's the problem, I'm trying to help a person install
freehand mx 11 over
> the phone and they are not real computer knowledgeable.
>
> Here's what they said
> They are running xp, when getting to the part of install
freehand that
> requires the serial number, they put in the number but
there is a "NEXT" button
> that won't highlight to let them click to proceed. No
messages show up, they
> just can't go any further because the button is dead.
>
> Do they they have to be online for the "NEXT" button to
highlight and let them
> proceed?
> What else could be happening?
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
>

FreeHand MX don't see Monitor Profiles in Windows 7

It was working fine in XP. In Prefs-Color-Kodak Digital Science-Color Management System- under Monitor, only Default is available. In XP I have all instaled profiles available, also in Mac.
How can I get FreeHand to see the monitor profiles? I need to use the SMTPE-C profile.
Thanks in advance.
Willy.

Good catch: The Win7 firewall for the "Home or work (private) network" +was turned on.+ It's turned off now (and re-booted), but still the MacMini doesn't see it!
I don't know what the "time server" is. (I don't think that was an issue before between XP and SL 10.6.) Can you provide a link? Does that mean that the two pcs need to be in the same time & zone?

Inking for Windows Phone 8.1 (Not Silverlight)

Is there any way to use Inking for Windows phone 8.1 application. I am able to use it in Silverlight application for freehand drawing.
But is there anything available to use for this purpose in WinRT?

Hi Morichi,
As far as I known in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime there is no such a Inking api or control as in Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app. If you want to implement the inking function in Windows phone 8.1 Runtime application, please try to refer to
the @Rob Caplan - MSFT's reply in this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28862500/inking-for-windows-phone-8-1-not-silverlight .
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Is there a way to use PM4.0 with Windows XPH?

Is there a way to use PM4.0 with Windows XPH without purchasing the latest suite or upgrades? I origionally purchased a suite with Pagemaker, Photostyler and Freehand just before Aldus went Adobe, and Win3.1 went Win95, then WinME and WinXP. I miss PM and have several manyscripts saved on PM4.0 and can not export or import them to any current wordprocessing programs. I was very far into one manuscript and am now in a position to finish it up but don't want to have to purchase a whole suite in order to do so. Any suggestions for this old tightwad? [email protected]

Jay Chevako wrote:
Find an old computer and run win3.1.
Jay
Shouldn't that be Win3.0 c.1991? And with a very early of version ATM (Ver 2?) if you want to do anything with fonts?
I think I have a WinME PC in the garage, which if you can re-format with DOS 5 and install Win3 instead (I may have the disks in the garage too), PM4 will positively scream along.
I reckon it's non starter on a modern WinXP PC, as the OS is so different, but if you're willing to experiment, you never know!
But if you want to open some old files to extract the text, you can open the PM4 files and save them with a d/l'ed trial copy of PM7, which will be OK on WinXP
Iechyd da! John
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I'm editing a wedding that I shot for a family member but when I play it in the viewing window the top of it is cropped off but I can see the whole image in the project strip. will the whole image transfer when I make a dvd or will it crop the top ?

I'm editing a wedding that I shot for a family member, But when I play it the top of the image is cropped off in the veiwing window but it shows the whole image in the project strip. When I make a DVD with it transfer the whole image or will it be the chopped off image and how do I make sure it is the whole image ?

What version of iMovie are you using?
For 9.09..
If the image is not 720p, you might have to crop it to have freehand control over which bit gets cut off.
How to crop it...
In the project window hover your cursor over a section of the clip in the bottom right corner as seen below:
Click on the cog and open up Cropping,Ken Burns and Rotation.
Click on Crop and drag and set to where you want it to be cropped, then click Done. (Because mine isn't 720p, iMovie automatically makes it so I cannot include the black border. If you do not mind this click Allow Black.)
Glad if this helped! Please rate up.

File is not a valid freehand document

Hi
I need help! I am a Freehand 9 user using Window 200, 256MB
Ram. At times i have a problem of not being able to open the
freehand file that i save. The error code is "Could not convert the
document because the file is not a valid freehand document ".
I have tried using Freehand MX to open but the same error
code appear too.
Was the file corrupted ? How can i prevent this thing again?
Cheers
Bwlim

In Windows I believe you have to have the 3 letter extension
on the end for it to be recognized?
For Freehand 9 that would be .fh9
Other than that, the document may be corrupt.

ICloud available for Windows Vista, but not Snow Leopard???

I have Multipal Macs with the Core Duo chipset that can not run LION and no $$$$ to upgrade hardware right now.
WHY does Windows VISTA get iCloud suport but I who can't upgrade to LION do not?
I understand leaving out Leaopard, but SNOW too?

With the removal of Rosetta in Lion and the requirement for Lion in order to use iCloud Macs are no longer an option for poeple that need to be able to run older applications.
Many places bought Macs because they could run just about anything, Windows, Linux, PPC software, even Classic applications via Sheepshaver.
The big issue is the loss of being able to run PPC applications. Freehand, Pagemaker, Framemaker, Quicken to name just a few applications that will never be ported. People and businesses have huge amounts of documents in these formats. It's not stuff that is used regularly but it is files that need to be accessed and sometimes modified.
All these applications can run on a modern Windows machine as can iCloud but not on a Mac running Lion.
While I'm complaining... I setup a bunch of Macs, iOS devices and some PCs all on iCloud today. The loss of email account syncing meant I had to spend hours setting up email on each machine ( each device had just under a dozen accounts on it) instead of just one machine and having it propagate to all the other devices. Going to be real fun trying to keep email rules in sync on all the Macs.

Will Adobe Flash 8 work with Windows Vista?

I was just wondering whether anyone knew whether the new
WIndows Vista will work fine with Adobe Flash 8?
Thanks

nervous is not how i would describe it - more like confused
and innacurate. We have no choice for
creative content solutions? I use at least 2 other animation
programs for starters. There's also
Corel and Painter and well, I could go on when it comes to
graphics editors.
There's also Camtasia as oppsed to Contribute.
True Adobe now dominates the market, but often times the word
"monopoly" comes with negative
connotations - Photoshop, AFter Effects, Flash and other
products have become so universaly standard
mostly because they deserve to be based on their features,
stability and because we chose to use
them over other products.
But I also agree with you, Adobe is now the one-stop-shopping
for almost anything a creative person
would need. I just wouldn't say there are no other choices. I
combine other animation software
almost everyday for things that flash falls short on.
-regards
-c
migo33 wrote:
> Hey guys;
>
> don't get so nervous about using the word "monopoly". I
use Adobe products for
> years and do not have much complaints but the referral
as a monopoly was quite
> true as a professionals designer does not have much
choice when it comes to
> content creation software. You can not really use free
or open source software
> when you have to share files between other agencies
clients and printers. so
> now that Macromedia is out of the competition (and use
Freehand) you basically
> have one company that dominates the market.
>

Can't Print from Freehand via Adobe Driver

For no obvious reason I can no longer print from Freehand to pdf using the Adobe driver.
I'm using Freehand 11.0.1 on Windows 7 (64-bit). Our team has the same problem on Windows XP with Freehand 11.0.1, and Windows 7 (32-bit) with Freehand 11.0.2. All of the above stopped working this week. We still can print to pdf using Cute PDF. But we really would like to get back to using Adobe which gives us more control over the output generated.
Here is the content of Adobe log file:
---------- start of log file ----------------
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%
Stack:
{AVec 256 array copy /f1 /|______Gen_Arial dup RF findfont def f1
DoPatch}
false
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
----------- end of log file ----------------
The problem does not occur using the same Adobe print driver with MS Word, PowerPoint, or Adobe Illustrator CS6.
Has anyone else seen this or have a clue how to resolve it?
Any help is very much appreciated!!!!!
Thanks!
John

Did you update your Acrobat/Distiller application before it stopped working? My first thought was that something was changed last week to have this happen and to go back and recreate what that might have been. Sounds like an Adobe update.

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