Keeping up with the learning curve and what to learn is an ongoing challenge for anyone who gets into using these creative tools. Factoring in all the other software and web platform services out there and has at one’s finger tips can appear to be a mind boggling task. Not to mention the rate software develops, improves and expands. Been traditionally trained (per the studio Mac with scalpel in hand) and reflecting on the blood, sweat and tears along with the delight invested over the years into using Freehand I certainly missed it’s multi-page layout and typography features when it went by the way side – Adobe buying over Macromedia and absorbing the product suite into their own. I particularly missed the multi-page feature when it came doing design roughs with many vector and different type elements – held altogether in one editable doc – which then through a process of copy file and elimination you ended up with the final design and artwork file. Having wrestled with both Illustrator and InDesign CS3 to achieve a similar work flow it appears that Illustrator CS4 has adopted the ability to work in such a manner into this new release. I look forward to seeing how the return of this feature is greeted by those in the design community who so dearly missed it.
Original Design Gangsta