I tried two links in this thread to get to that script file, but the file has been removed -- the first click takes me to a nearly identical page, and clicking (again) on a Download button, I get an error:
Can anyone please send me the script? I don't need to do this often but like many of you I have an enormous archive of FH files. Too many and too widely archived to collect to have Tensai do it -- plus, the only time I asked them for help, the FH file was too old for even them to tackle. (And I still have AI CS5 around, and it'll still open on my OS10.13 iMac, but it's not happy. I can fire up my Mac Pro if need be.)
The computer thing is forward looking, but there really oughta be a way to preserve work done in obsolete apps.
Too many and too widely archived to collect to have Tensai do it -- plus, the only time I asked them for help, the FH file was too old for even them to tackle.
You can still buy the Tensai plugin. You need that plugin, because the script will only work in versions up to CS5.
Only the Tensai plugin can connect CC versions to Adobe's old FreeHand import module.
Thank you, Monika. I've never used a script in AI but launched AI CS5.1, and looked around. I saw a FreehandToAI script already among those available, and tried using it to access my FH file. They were greyed out; perhaps the files are too old (They're FH 3.0, according to Tensai's online tool.) The app quit "unexpectedly" so I relaunched, and accessed your script via the Other Script... option. Same result.
If I thought Tensai's plug-in (at $57 + EU VAT) would work on all my FH files, or even most of them, I'd pop for it in a heartbeat. Even they say results are mixed, especially for older files.
Thank you, Monika. If I had more frequent need to access these files, I'd spend more time figuring out how to do it. (I still have my G4 Mac Pro, but haven't fired it up in years, and don't recall what versions of FH are on it, or if I can back-load v. 7 from my discs or archives.) Kind of a shame, IMO, the way this has gone down.... but I appreciate that I can post a message here, and get a response from someone so knowlegable!
To run older or maybe PPC software on actual systems a good way is to run OS X 10.6 (which still has Rosetta to run PPC tools) in a VM with VMware Fusion or the free VirtualBox - this really often saves my bacon 😉
Here you still can play around with your last versions of Freehand until you figured out the best way for you.
You can do the work to create this VM once and then make copies of it for your different needs. This is worth every minute you invest to create this thing.
The link to download leads to a non existant page. Great. All morning lost trying to open an old freehand file (made by adobe!!). Why is there a paid plugin to convert fh files to illustrator? why does not adobe make it FOR FREE?
Still dealing with this issue as well. Why would Adobe buy out Freehand support it's files for years and then all of the sudden nope. We don't support our own product files anymore. Thousands of designs lost
For people like me that have the same problem five years later: download FreeHand MX 11 from here "https://archive.org/details/FreeHandMX", and use it for export yours FH11 to an AI project.
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