FH10 + OSX = Pure Crap?

[darrel]

I have the MX studio at work (Win2K) and at home (OSX - Jaguar). I haven't
used FH much at home...only at work lately.

On Win2K it certainly has it's fair share of incredibly annoying bugs and
quirks that were never fixed. However, last night I actually tried to use
FH10 for a period of time on my Mac and it was pure hell! Cursors wouldn't
change (Had to do everything with the text cursor) I couldn't select text. I
couldn't enter new leading values and have them 'stick'. Redrawing was utter
crap. Performance painful.

Ugh.

Good-bye Freehand. I am no longer recommending it to anyone on either
platform.

-Darrel

[darrel]

> Try FHMX on your Mac with OSX, in spite of its many continuing problems,

> it runs considerably better than FH10 did on any platform or OS.

MM lost me when they asked for me to pay for their bug fixes. Sorry, I just
can't. I think I'm going to look more seriously at StoneDesign's offerings
this time.

I did use MX on the PC in trial mode. It certainly fixed some of the major
problems I had. FH10 should never have been released and MM should never
have expected customers to pay for their bug fixes. I got my new company to
buy me the entire MX studio and then I had to ask them to buy FHMX because
the software they bough the first time wasn't any good. Make me look like a
genius.

But we've been through all this before. ;o)

-Darrel

[Bill]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:25:57 +0000 (UTC), Pappy <rlambert@carsondellosa.com>
wrote:

> I have heard of Stone before, but never went to look at their stuff.
> Wow, the feature list and the pricing are pretty impressive.

Especially that 'Free Upgrades for Lifes' feature. Almost makes me wish I
was a Mac user.

--
Bill

[Paul Harris]

In article <bgeat0$li4$1@forums.macromedia.com>, Pappy
<rlambert@carsondellosa.com> wrote:

> Overall, FHMX is better than FH10 but not quite as good as FH9 in
> performance, stability, and all around useability. Download the trial
> version and give it a go.

Pappy:

How well does exporting in PDF format work in MMX? I could never get
this working right in FH10, and that was one of my major frustrations
with the program.

Regards,

Paul Harris