On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:12 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
I like FreeHand. I used Illustrator on and off since Illustrator 88. I hate it. It appears to be written by coders who know nothing about illustration or drawing. FreeHand [Altsys, Aldus] used so many of the metaphors that those of us who actually draw for a living can relate to and use without a steep learning process. I used it for regular drawing and for basic mechanical drawing--very intuitive.
Completely right. Illustrator was coded by John Warnock by wrapping a GUI around PostScript (a programming language which he had previously created). In the early days, if f you knew how to code in PostScript you could clearly see this in Illustrator. The developers of Freehand were very much interested in how artists thought about drawing. I ran into the developers at MacWorld as they were demoong the first version of Freehand. When they found out what I did they dragged me off to pick my brain. They kept showing me alternative examples of how the program's tools might work. They kept asking me "Which of these alternatives is closer to how a graphic artist would think about drawing."
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