anybody heard of handsfree for indesign?

[Getho]

There was a post earlier with this comment:
"What you need is the HandsFree Plugin which enables InDesign to achieve
everything freehand is capable of plus the extra's your already aware of. In
the earlier versions i myself possessed a copy of both InDesign and
Freehand, but in the new version the facility is there for this plugin which
then nullified my need for Freehand."

Almost unbelievable.
(Try searching for it on google and all you get is mobile phone sites, of
course)

Geth

[G.Force]

Getho wrote:

> There was a post earlier with this comment:
> "What you need is the HandsFree Plugin which enables InDesign to achieve
> everything freehand is capable of plus the extra's your already aware of. In
> the earlier versions i myself possessed a copy of both InDesign and
> Freehand, but in the new version the facility is there for this plugin which
> then nullified my need for Freehand."
>
> Almost unbelievable.

I think you've accidentally installed the Gullible(tm) plugin.

[Karl]

> There was a post earlier with this comment:

> "What you need is the HandsFree Plugin which enables InDesign to achieve
> everything freehand is capable of plus the extra's your already aware of.

In

> the earlier versions i myself possessed a copy of both InDesign and
> Freehand, but in the new version the facility is there for this plugin

which

> then nullified my need for Freehand."
>
> Almost unbelievable.
> (Try searching for it on google and all you get is mobile phone sites, of
> course)
>
> Geth

Yeah, i've heard of it. Had a copy once but my mac crashed and all was lost.
I'd totally forgot about it. Can't remember where i got it - think it was on
a cd i got of someone full of plugin's + extra's.
It does enable much more but i was never a big fan of InDesign anyway so
don't think i'll bother trying to get hold of it again.

TC Karl

[Bill]

So who would you rather believe? Google, or PerciKarl?

I doubt we'll see a post from him again after your excellent e-sleuthing.
I just wonder what his motivation was for trying to BS the forum like
that. Must not have enough clients to keep him busy.

--
Bill
FHMX/Win98/Athlon2500+/512M

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:20:34 +0000 (UTC), Tom G. <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Getho" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:ccksqj$sl6$[email protected]:
>
> OK, that was weird. I replied to "anybody heard of" and it got threaded
> under Test. I'll try again!
>

>> Almost unbelievable.
>> (Try searching for it on google and all you get is mobile phone sites,
>> of course)

>
> I think this is a big giant troll job.
>
> Note that Percival Pim is posting from:
>
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> And note that "Karl" who replied to you saying he'd heard of it is
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> I smell a rat!
>

[Stéphane Bergeron]

Tom G. wrote:

>
> I think this is a big giant troll job.

A troll it is for sure. It was not even subtle, I mean... FreeHand /
HandsFree ? Geez, who does this guy think he's fooling?

Let's also not forget that FreeHand's competition in the Adobe lineup is
not InDesign but Illustrator. ID and FH are different kinds of
applications with different purposes and InDesign cannot replace
FreeHand (or Illustrator for that matter), imaginary plugin or not...
;-) FreeHand may have multiple pages but it's not a DTP application.
InDesign may have vector drawing tools but it's not a dedicated
illustration application either.

Stéphane Bergeron.

[Getho]

Actualy a relief in a way - otherwise a year spent learning fh/illustrator
would've been a waste of time.

I thought the HandsFree might have been a marketing idea play on freehand,
and it didn't occur to me that someone would be making it up:
"making it up, making it up? Why would I want to make it up? Lifes bad
enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it"
- Marvin the paranoid android.

Geth


"Stéphane Bergeron" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ccmuh8$h87$[email protected]..

> Tom G. wrote:

> >
> > I think this is a big giant troll job.

>
> A troll it is for sure. It was not even subtle, I mean... FreeHand /
> HandsFree ? Geez, who does this guy think he's fooling?
>
> Let's also not forget that FreeHand's competition in the Adobe lineup is
> not InDesign but Illustrator. ID and FH are different kinds of
> applications with different purposes and InDesign cannot replace
> FreeHand (or Illustrator for that matter), imaginary plugin or not...
> ;-) FreeHand may have multiple pages but it's not a DTP application.
> InDesign may have vector drawing tools but it's not a dedicated
> illustration application either.
>
> Stéphane Bergeron.