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#Multi ad vs FH

    28-Jan-90 00:14:46
Sb: #6281-#Multi ad vs FH
Fm: Michael Diehl 76004,1001
To: James Haggarty 72647,3501
I've seen MultiAd Creator, and have taken it around the block a couple times. I don't use it regularly. It seems real powerful, *and* it seems kind of "buggy", for lack of better word. One for-instance: I rotated a tiff file, and at actual size it looked great, but at enlarged sizes, it "unrotated" — appeared "straight"; not what you want in a graphic arts tool! In contrast, and in fairness, FreeHand displays only a box when any but the original orientation (angle, not size) of a tiff file is incorporated into a layout. Neither is ideal. But then, no other programs (meaning Quark or PageMaker) will rotate such objects at all. I use FreeHand extensively for all kinds of things — including display-type advertising — and I love the program, with all its faults. I've said before that if I had but one piece of software to take to the hypothetical desert island, it would doubtless be FreeHand. It exports, by the way, EPS, which is importable — in color even — into Quark and, I believe, PageMaker CE. Good luck. Mike PS I retrieved this message only because mentions of Multi-Ad Creator — online here or in the trade pubs — are so extremely rare. Any other MAC users out there? I'd be curious to know what you think…