Freehand importing

[Turan]

I've been asked to take some Freehand pics and work with them, build a web site around them.

Can Xara import them - are there any limitations - problems?

Turan

[Turan]

I've been asked to take some Freehand pics and work with them, build a web site around them.

Can Xara import them - are there any limitations - problems?

Turan

[gwpriester]

Xara would have to read a FreeHand EPS file, which I don't have a lot of confidence it can do. It is worth a try.

CorelDRAW can probably import the images as Interpreted EPS and then once in DRAW the image could be exported as 32-bit CMX which Xara can import.

Just my guess.

Gary

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[Turan]

Thanks Gary for the response.

Do you - anyone reading - have Freehand and can try this out for me?

I don't want to look to 'un-cool' to the customer by have to have a 5 hour discussion with the other designer (who I have not met) on how to get their stuff (on a MAC) into my PC!.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Turan

[Sheff]

I have no problems with Cutting and Pasting between Xara and Freehand other than the fact that it pastes at a large size.

I rarely use Freehand, but when I've had to, I've gotten Xara and Freehand to play with each other better than Xara and Illustrator.

Good Luck

Sheffield Abella
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www.sheff.com

[Turan]

Thanks Sheffield for the info.

There maybe a slight problem for me in that the FreeHand designer is on the MAC and I'm on a PC.

But if I get the freehand file and hopefully get a 30day download of freehand (we check in two mins) then I'll hopefully be able to cut and paste.

Turan