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Please help opening an old Freehand file. - Ken Sp. - 05-05-2008
A very good friend that has lost her husband needs to open an old 2004 Freehand file. I am not sure if it was from Classic or OSX.
It is stored on a Zip disc and and I can see and move it. The problem is that in "Get info" it, and all the other Freehand files have no suffix or file type after the . and the show up as Unix Executable File in kind. The Zip disc looks to be Fat32 even though they were used exclusively on Mac.
Do I need classic-or what?
Please, I will try anything
Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - wave rider - 05-05-2008
On a whim, I tried opening a Freehand MX sample file with Illustrator CS3. I'm presented with a FreeHand Import Options dialog box. There are some exceptions that it won't import (some patterns and so on) but it looks like you can pull information out of the file.
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Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - jdc - 05-05-2008
that was my thought -- illustrator may open it
Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - deckeda - 05-05-2008
Ken, what apps have you tried?
Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - steve... - 05-05-2008
I tried opening a Freehand 9 file with Illustrator CS2 and it opened just fine.
Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - jdc - 05-05-2008
i got it, opened in CS 3 no sweat
Re: Please help opening an old Freehand file. - Mike V - 05-06-2008
I love happy endings.