There was lots of changes and transformation last season beginning with bigger ones like Apple move to Intel-based Macs and Windows got upgrade to its current Vista version. Besides the biggest ever released Adobe package has been announced where GoLive users migrate to Dreamweaver, ImageReady users need more Fireworks experience and Freehand users finally can take a timorous look at Illustrator. I said finally because Illustrator is better than Freehand since forever, although there are companies that still using Freehand ( I absolutely don’t have an idea why ) and I hope it will be turning point for them to convince themselves how advanced is Illustrator compared with every single tool that the average Freehand ( and Corel ) users used to play with.
So after all this words you probably got the point of this article - Freehand is dying and you have 2 possibilities to choose from - Corel and Illustrator. Im sure you know what is my advice about that choice so here is a quick overview of Freehand to Illustrator CS3 migration