And you know what. That sucks. Because Macromedia Freehand (Well now Adobe Freehand? -- so weird) is a do everything you pretty much need it do do but maybe not perfect but still very good overall and superior in many different ways than Adobe Illustrator (Phoey) -- although I must say that Illustrator is a great program — if I can ever figure out how to select the item I actually want after "Ungrouping" endlessly with "Command U", Illustrator is just a cumbersome f**king program... for me anyway. Now I know Adobe aquired FreehandMX from Macromedia when they aquired well... Macromedia. Look I'm not an expert on the subject of mergers and aquisitions, but I can tell you though is that event signaled the end of a great program in Freehand. Sure it's a couple years now, but its starting to come to a head. I'm gonna have to bite the pillow and learn Illustrator. Even though Freehand I always felt was more comfortable to manipulate — I know some of the pen tools were a little clunky and unprecise, Freehand allowed a lot of...freedom. You could set stylesheets to text attributes — fuck you could design and print a book! With pages that had different sizes. Never understood how Illustartor could now never have multiple pages, so weird! Blah-eh!

But I gotta realize that as a designer, the tools need to be updated, the trend has to evole... as I. F**k!