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Subject:Freehand to Illustrator From:ed_marsh -at- TCPGATE -dot- IBI -dot- COM Date:Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:52:34 EST
Tom writes:
>Sorry if the list has already been over this, but what is the easiest
>best way to convert Freehand illustrations to Illustrator and end up
>with true Adobe Illustrator files, manipulable in all their parts and
>so forth?
Illustrator's native format is AI or EPS. The only difference between
the two is that the AI format does not include a screen preview; the
EPS version does. The preview is helpful when you're trying to place
the graphic into a page layout program.
You should be able to export to either of these two file formats from
Freehand.
