

Aldus FreeHand for Macintosh at The Vintage Mac Museum (archived ).

Macromedia FreeHand to Adobe Illustrator CS3 Migration FAQ (PDF, 2007).How do I open FreeHand with Illustrator CS6? ().↑ FreeHand no longer updated moving to Illustrator by John Nack, Adobe Blogs.FreeHand by Andy Finnell, Safe from the Losing Fight. ↑ ALTSYS FREEHAND - Trademark Details, Justia Trademarks.↑ Aldus and Adobe Systems Finalize Merger, Computer History Museum.↑ Aldus and Adobe Lay Claim to Digital Publishing by Laurie Flynn, The New York Times.↑ 5.0 5.1 Aldus to Add Products, Enhance Pagemaker, InfoWorld p.125.↑ The key role of Fontographer in the font revolution by David Bergsland, Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers.↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems.↑ 2.0 2.1 Macromedia completes acquisition of Altsys by Bloomberg News, The New York Times.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Aldus Licenses Altsys' Mac Graphics Program, InfoWorld p.65.The engineers also created Macromedia Fireworks and the two software projects often shared resources. The original development team in Richardson, Texas was renamed the Digital Arts Group and continued development of the program as Macromedia FreeHand. Acquisition by Macromedia Īltsys was acquired by Macromedia in January 1995. Altsys also filed for the trademark to Altsys FreeHand in July 1994 in event they needed to self-publish the product. Altsys sued to regain marketing rights to FreeHand, citing a non-compete clause because of Adobe's development of Adobe Illustrator. Aldus (not Altsys) was absorbed by Adobe Systems in a merger that was completed on August 31, 1994. The program was released as Aldus FreeHand 1.0, with Altsys retaining development rights. 1.2 Acquisition by Adobe and discontinuationįreeHand was originally developed by Altsys from Fontographer's graphics engine as Masterpiece, which was licensed to Aldus in the fall of 1987.
