Indesign CS3, a FreeHand flavour?

With this new version of Indesign, we, FreeHand lovers, won't
be upset by the new indesign interface.
Take
a look

Now I am the biggest Freehand fan and used it for all of my
vector creations and full layout for the last 10 years.
I switched to InDesign for all of my layout work several
months ago and honestly I wouldn't go back, even if we got a brand
new freehand I would only use it for the vector part.
you guys have to know one thing, InDesign is NOT another
Quark Express!
its truly outstanding, to me it feels like freehand with a
whole bunch of extra features thrown in, and what features!
imagine having access to all of your photoshop layers
including transparency, right within layout,
live shadows, feathering, glows, etc for any objects
including vectors,
high resolution native pdf output, fully postscript complient
including all of the transparency effects.
the most incredible text control, too many features to list
here, but the best text features on the planet bar none.
best of all, the realtime onscreen postscript rendering
engine is very fast, I can work on a 50 page document with vectors
and images in full resolution all day long without slowing down at
all, try doing that in freehand!
using InDesign has not slowed me down one bit, it took a
couple of days to get used to where everything is, but I pretty
much hit the ground running,
I still use freehand for all of the vector parts and I guess
I always will, if I have to run Freehand in emulator mode for the
next 10 years then thats ok for with me.
seriously folks, take a look at InDesign, its a true
designers tool, and I for one am having a lot of fun discovering
the capabilties of this amazing app.
check out the other podcasts for "The InDesigner" and you'll
see what I mean.

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