Selecting photoshop as an external editor

I am using freehand mx 11.0.2 and have photosop cs3. I am
trying to send a picture in freehand to photoshop. I go to edit
-> preferences -> object and then i want to send the file as
a JPEG but when i click on the button to select the external editor
photoshop is not in the list. The only way i can get it to appear
is if i change the file format from JPEG to psd.
Is there a way i can get photoshop to appear in the list when
the file format is set to JPEG?

Can't help you with the specific problem, but I would suggest
that you
don't use JPEG for a number of reasons. 1) FreeHand doesn't
always play
nice with JPEGs, when there are "weird" unexplained things
happening
with FreeHand files I can almost always track it down to a
JPEG. 2) If
you are editing an image, using JPEG is asking for trouble
because
evrytime you re-save it you are degrading the image more and
more. Use
TIFF where ever you would use JPEG. Use EPS if you are
including a
Photoshop clipping path, even though FreeHand can handle TIFF
clipping
paths it tends to shift the location of it.
Rich
shrubaroo wrote:
> I am using freehand mx 11.0.2 and have photosop cs3. I
am trying to send a
> picture in freehand to photoshop. I go to edit ->
preferences -> object and
> then i want to send the file as a JPEG but when i click
on the button to select
> the external editor photoshop is not in the list. The
only way i can get it to
> appear is if i change the file format from JPEG to psd.
>
> Is there a way i can get photoshop to appear in the list
when the file format
> is set to JPEG?
>

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