FreeHand vs. Quark

[Kay Poe]

I am applying for a job which requires Quark. Can anyone tell me how similar FreeHand and Quark are?

Thanks.

[Wes Rand]

Kay Poe wrote:

> I am applying for a job which requires Quark. Can anyone tell me how
> similar FreeHand and Quark are?
>
> Thanks.

Some of the concepts are similar but you won't know how to do things in
Quark without a little banging around. Keyboard shortcuts (at least when
I was using Quark. We now use InDesign) are different, some of the tools
are different and some of the ways things are handled are different.

[Armadillo]

> I am applying for a job which requires Quark. Can anyone tell me how

similar FreeHand and Quark are?

Both have extremely arrogant tech support.

Jukka

[Kay Poe]

thanks for the info!

[Danny Whitehead]

Armadillo wrote:

> Both have extremely arrogant tech support.

Neither will last another say, 3 versions. :-)


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Danny

[Kay Poe]

what will replace it?

[Martin Gamache]

FH may be replaced by Illustrator and perhaps to a lesser extent by Canvas
Quark by Indesign




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> what will replace it?

[Todd]

Freehand is dead!

[davecc]

Todd,

What makes you think that Freehand is dead?

David

[MurrayRL]

Freehand may have some problems at the moment (mainly caused by Macromedia
wrongly assuming that we all use it for web work, when it always has had strong
support in the print area) but it still is a mainstay in the industry.

In New Zealand and Australia it is THE industry standard, although Illustrator
is certainly a strong contender.

[den-chan]

Someone keeps posting around here that freehand is dead. Hmm until macromedia
has the funeral for freehand then its still alive..haha. Yes the program
hasn''t been perfect but just like the adobe side a lot of people didn't like
ver 9-10 and the latest ver made people happy I guess. We will see what happens
with FH ver 12 whenever that comes out.

[fontainemaury]

They are fairly different and used for different things in the print world.
Freehand is more of a vector based program (bezier curves, points) than Quark.
Quark is mostly used as a layout program to intergrate art, text and photos.

Some would argue, but I will say that it is the print industry standard layout
program. This is mostly because it is good at creating seperations (CMYK) for
plate making on an offset press. You rarely layout a print piece in Freehand.
Instead you would save your Freehand art as an .eps and place it in Quark.

Your FH experience will appy, but don't count on being proficient in Quark at
first.

[Mark]

As a brand new Freehand user I have to say that I am quite happy with the
program and have found a lot of very cool features in the program. I
switched over to Macromedia StudioMX from CorelDraw simply because I needed
Flash and it was much more cost-effective to buy Studio rather than Flash
and CorelDraw 12. I love Corel and believe they've mastered alignment,
object positioning, and node handling. However I have found that Freehand
does an excellent job with these things as well...it just handles them
differently and you have to change how you design slightly (which is a good
thing in my opinion).

Comparing Freehand to Quark or Indesign is placing it completely in the
wrong category since the direct competitors are Illustrator and CorelDraw.

That's just my two cents to say that Freehand is very much alive and is an
excellent piece of software.

Mark