Poor PDF results from FreeHand MX v.11

Question

When I export to PDF using Shift-Command-R, the resulting
effects (glows, drop shadows, etc.) don't render as they do within
FreeHand - they appear in the PDF as un-graduated transluscent
color blocks (everything else in the export, including placed
images and type, look great). When I try an alternative - printing
to Adobe PDF - the effects look okay, but wherever they overlap
something else in the drawing it creates a shift in the edge of the
overlap, fills offset from the edges of their shapes, and type
that's been converted to paths looks terrible...
Anyone have ideas about how to get a better result?

Answer 1

> When I export to PDF using Shift-Command-R, the
resulting effects (glows, drop
> shadows, etc.) don't render as they do within FreeHand -
they appear in the PDF
> as un-graduated transluscent color blocks (everything
else in the export,
> including placed images and type, look great). When I
try an alternative -
> printing to Adobe PDF - the effects look okay, but
wherever they overlap
> something else in the drawing it creates a shift in the
edge of the overlap,
> fills offset from the edges of their shapes, and type
that's been converted to
> paths looks terrible...
Raster effecs work only in low resoltion rgb output and they
do not work with cmyk colors. Raster effect resolution can be
changed but there are no other options. Raster effects have
connection tp color management settings while outline objects do
not. This of course makes about impossible to make the colors
match.
Also PDF export is unreliable and should not be used in print
production.
> Anyone have ideas about how to get a better result?
Create the effects with another program like Photoshop or
Illustrator.
Jukka
PS Hopefully Future version of FreeHand have the same effect
engine as Illustrator. Pdf export in Illustrator, however, do not
work properly either and Distiller must be used as well.