Illustrator no longer opens FH files!

Just a 'heads up' to anyone who may still be lurking this board. With the release of Illustrator CS6 Adobe has apparently dropped support for opening FreeHand files i.e. Ai CS6 no longer opens FH files! Whether this is a short term glitch will probably largely depend on how vociferous the FH user base are in their desire to see this functionality restored. It seems to me now more than ever (esp. on Mac's going forward) that we do need to know there will be a program capable of running on contemporary architectures that can open FH files.
Les

To run PPC programs you need Rosetta, which is discontinued with Lion.
To keep it possible for people to run Rosetta software, Apple greatly reduced the price of the server version of Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard Server. Although you won't need the server stuff, it is a version that has a EULA that allows you to run virtual installations of 10.6 on your Mac too. So you can legally install a Snow Leopard version in Virtual Box for example. You can make a lean OSX install with Freehand and other apps you like to continue running, and put them in a virtual environment.
So to run Freehand
- Start Virtual Box, you can set it up to automatically boot into the virtual Snow install. It will work on any mac from 10.6-10.9 and further into the future.
- Start Freehand (Virtual box also has a mode to start virtualised apps directly from the doc, but I think that feature only works for Windows programs now). Share the project file folder of the Mac to the virtual system to be able to access and write to all relevat file directories.
- After use, save state. The virtual mac will be stored in its last state, in maybe 10 seconds. This way it will boot straight into Freehand very fast next time.

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