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Better with Age

By Clayton Crooks

Since its introduction in 1988, FreeHand has been at the forefront of graphics innovations. Now, with its tenth release of FreeHand, Macromedia continues to expand the image editor's ever-increasing set of features, including additions to the illustration tools, several productivity enhancements, and publishing improvements.

Productivity Enhancements

Macromedia has modified FreeHand's already effective and unique multipage workspace. You can use master pages as templates to create objects and page attributes, which can be edited at any time. When you edit them, the child pages that use this information are updated automatically. In a single FreeHand document, you can now manage up to 32,000 master pages, a number that most projects never reach.

FreeHand 10 Macromedia www.macromedia.com cost: $399.
Pros: The Macromedia Common User Interface makes the program easy to use.	Cons: New features may not be enough to convince users of other applications to switch.<>