Open Freehand files with Illustrator CS6

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And we have to pay £45 to do this?? On top of an annual license fee?

Not at all happy about this Adobe. You should do something about this asap.

Does anyone know if there is a stand alone download for the Freehand Import Plugin from CS3-CS5?

What is the actual name of the Plugin in order to search and see if I already have it somewhere?

I'm going to purchase the Tensai plugin, but I'm not sure my CS4 software installed correctly, or have what I need.

Somebody please help. I can't believe that Adobe can get away with this crap!!!. So frustrating!!!

Hi,

I have the same problem, I still have around 100 Freehand files that I cannot open in Illustrator.

Trying the "social solution" (free): Would someone reading this (this means you!) with a working pre-CS6 version of Illustrator convert the Freehand-files to AI for me? That would be really helpful (100 files, 2MB ZIP). Please email me at hpcompaq2206 and then gmail and then dot com. I will post here once someone did this for me (and declare that person hero of the day!).

This script allows you to batch convert Freehand to AI files Adobe - Illustrator : For Macintosh : Converting FreeHand files to Illustrator files through scripting

Should be done in <5 min for someone with a pre-CS6 Illustrator.

Thank you in advance!

In the same boat as other Freehand users here with 20 years worth of Freehand files. Was happy when Adobe added Freehand import to Illustrator CS3, but the import in CS3 wasn't all that great so I continued to use Freehand running in Snow Leopard on a 2011 Mac Pro. Now that Apple is giving a free upgrade to Yosemite, thought I should finally get around to tackling the Freehand vs Illustrator problem I have. Downloaded a trial of Illustrator CS6 to see if the Freehand import was any better than CS3 and was shocked to find the Freehand import no longer supported. At this point I just find myself wondering what is wrong with the people at Adobe? I downloaded the trial to see if it would work and now find I would have to buy an additional plugin for $50 to see if that would work. It's all very disappointing. From what I've read Adobe has finally gotten Illustrator on par with the old Freehand MX, but at the same time they decided to take away the one feature needed for all of us old Freehand users to embrace Illustrator and move on. We can complain in these forums all we want, but they won't listen. Adobe stock has more than doubled since 2012, so I'm sure they think they're doing everything right and have little interest in reading commentary from any of us. I can tell you from what I've seen so far I wouldn't buy the CS6 stuff or subscribe to the CC. It's not because I don't want to, but because it doesn't have what I need. I always thought that someday I would be able to easily open old Freehand files in Illustrator with little text shift and distortion. But "someday" has now gone on for years and I have little confidence in Adobe for a solution. I'll start reading up on that plugin. Maybe it does a good job and works as promised. It won't have an Adobe logo on it, but at this point I'm starting to think that's a good thing.

I'm stuck at MacOSX10.6.8 just to be able to open my Freehand 11 files. I have Illustrator CS4 and CS6. Which is the better way to open those files? Do I  then have to work my vector logos in Illustrator?

Someone said I could download Snow Leopard Server to open FH file in 10.9. How would that work? Is that like having a second OS and closing one to access the other just to open a FH file?

We are in the same boat. We used FreeHand for as long as we could after Adobe bought their only competition and killed it. More than 15 years worth of assets. At least they eventually included a reasonable translator in Illustrator to open Freehand files. Having just upgraded to CC from CS5, because… Adobe, we are astounded to see that even this meagre effort by Adobe they cannot bother to maintain. We still have FreeHand and we still have CS5, but I have not been able to run FreeHand for years because it does not run on recent OSX versions or hardware. I find it ridiculous that we are expected to keep installing CS5 just because they decided to silently kill the translator. Once of these days Adobe is going to wake up and realise they have become the next Quark.

Adobe - just a pack of ignorant dicks

Absolutely. This is an unbelivably arrogant act from Adobe... Not impressed...

I used FreeHand for years and was very happy with it.

My old Macs now dead or missing, I switched to Illustrator and, like all of you, need to open old files rather often.

I would like to see this feature be reinstated in Illustrator CS6.