Saving MX version files to older FH version

[Tim Hines]

Unfortunately you haven't. Macromedia has. This is my second most
annoying gripe with MM, the first being the ridiculous and unprecedented
upgrade policy where you can only upgrade from 2 versions back.

Try exporting as Illustrator 5. I think FH7 will open that.

Let us know. If it's a one time thing, I'll convert the file for you.

Tim Hines
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Shane Kelley wrote:

> I recently went from FreeHand 7 to MXa. One of my clients is still running
> version 7. She would like to be able to make minor text changes without having
> to send the file back to me.
>
> Unfortunately, although you can export FreeHand MX files all the way back to
> Illustrator 88, there seems to be no options for saving to FreeHand 7, only 8.
> 9. and 10. Have I missed something?
>

[Shane Kelley]

Yes, the upgrade policy of MM is annoying and costly.
I have tried exporting to Illustrator and PDF formats, but in the illustrator
files the type has moved, usually down a few points, and been broken into
individual lines. The type in the PDF files hasn't moved, but I lost the text
blocks as in Illustrator, so each line of text is a separate object.
I was hoping I had missed something. But thanks anyway.