If you’re lamenting the ease-of-use of the now-discontinued FreeHand, look into Lineform, from Freeverse. This $80 application provides everything you need to create professional logos, drawings, floor plans, and illustrations (yes, it’s that good). Among its features are:
- Bézier editing
- Text-to-outline
- Text-on-a-path
- Full OpenType support
- Free transform
- Artistic brushes and filters
- Gradients
- Transparency
- Drop shadows
- Image manipulation
- CMYK preview
- Export to bitmap formats at any resolution: PNG, BMP, JPEG and TIFF
- Export to vector formats: SVG, PDF and EPS
- Import from SVG
Macworld has a useful review of Lineform at www.macworld.com
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