Hey, (dis)liking the UI and the concept of an app is a matter of personal preference. I remember that I preferred Freehand to Illustrator in 1994-1995, but now I can't even stand launching Freehand and it seems to lack any logic and its UI looks childish. This is mostly because I was forced to use AI for 2 or 3 years and I got used to it and I like it. In fact, the only problem with Adobe's attitude to GUI is a fantastic clutter of floating palettes, InDesign being the champion. Adobe doesn't seem to know the way out and from version to version their apps lose more and more space. There is a solution, of course, that is to buy a larger monitor; I'm just not sure that everybody likes the idea.
I'm curious about Freehand, but I can't even seem to download the demo from their site. Nice that Macromedia at least offers demo versions of their software. That pretty much leaves Apple, MS, Corel and Adobe as the only companies that don't. OK, that's overgeneralizing, but dammit it's a great to take test drives of apps before sinking money into them.
Here's a page where you can download demo versions of almost every application Adobe makes.
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Originally posted by BuonRotto
I'm curious about Freehand, but I can't even seem to download the demo from their site. Nice that Macromedia at least offers demo versions of their software. That pretty much leaves Apple, MS, Corel and Adobe as the only companies that don't. OK, that's overgeneralizing, but dammit it's a great to take test drives of apps before sinking money into them.
Here's a page where you can download demo versions of almost every application Adobe makes.