I certainly admire your perseverance in this matter. However I still can't imagine Adobe ever making any "useful" changes to Illustrator to compensate for your well documented lack of user-friendliness. As someone pointed out above, it's already been 13+ years. At this point, I seriously d...

- open submenus with right mouse clicks Illustrator does this already. What other sub-menus would you like? - the pathfinder should not make groups automatically It doesn't now. You need to also try "Alt-Clicking" in the Pathfinder control panel for "live path bezier functions". ...

There were some serious problems with the further development of Freehand even when Macromedia still owned it and before the sale to Adobe. I was reminded of that rumor by a close friend, and did a Google search: This from 2005: http://judisohn.com/2005/08/08/macromedia_studio_8_rip_freeha/ Edited t...

As an addendum to what I wrote above: if you only plan on using your graphic software i.e. Freehand, Photoshop, etc., clean up your drive first... or best, consider truthfully a new installation, and only copy the preference and setting files to the new installation. Best practice is to keep you dat...

Clone your drive using any number of utilities, but I like Carbon Copy Cloner best: http://www.bombich.com/

However don't forget: this will work with machines from Apple that were originally sold with Snow Leopard or before. You "may" run into problems in the future trying to do this with machines sold with Lion, or in the near future with Mountain Lion. Different hardware with different drivers...

@vaa -- I understand your frustration, however, Adobe has done nothing illegal. However, as I have mentioned in other posts here and around the web, it definitely was a HUGE oversight on the part of the DOJ to allow Adobe to take over their main, and many would say only, competitor to Illustrator an...

I agree 100% with ThePixelDoc: I absolutely don´t understand why our email adresses were given to Adobe. What else do they know now? Did they get our serial numbers too? This is absolutely not acceptable! I missed a lot of transparency during the whole thing. Unfortunately, due to the legal action ...

Due to my above posts sticking up for the FFH Team, I think I do have to make public ONE BIG complaint I have in the way this was handled. That is, that our email addresses we use here, were handed over to Adobe so that they could send us the (admittedly!) sorry-ass "Discount Documents". W...

Amazing. What a hideous outcome. I trusted Free FreeHand. Stupid me. I thought maybe Free FreeHand could save FreeHand from Adobe's evil corporate money-grubbing clutches. Apparently not. F*CK ADOBE. F*CK FREE FREEHAND. @Art101 - maybe you should learn some "Reasonable Cognitive Thinking 101&q...