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Macromedia FreeHand 8.0.1
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Download freehand_8.hqx
(18.26 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
Download freehand8.0.1bupdate_0.hqx
(3.69 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
Download freehand-801-mac.zip
(233.59 MB)
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9
FreeHand 8 with 8.0.1 updater. This is not the last Classic Mac version. The last one was, I think, v10, although some people say version 9 was better. I do not have any of them, though.
Third download contains the full Freehand 8.0.1 CD for archival purposes and the CD scan. Zipped .iso, 9862cf330780bb183d326cd4ed04ddba *Freehand-801-Mac.zip
Second download contains the Freehand 8.0.1 Updater only.
CompatibilityMacromedia FreeHand is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics (use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images, also known as geometric modeling), oriented to the professional desktop publishing market. Development has been discontinued but it is still available in versions for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
FreeHand is very similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to Adobe Illustrator. It was created by Altsys and licensed to Aldus, which released versions 1 to 4. When Aldus merged with Adobe Systems, because of the overlapping of market with Illustrator, Adobe returned FreeHand to Altsys soon after the merger (after some legal wrangling, and intervention by the Federal Trade Commission). Altsys was later bought by Macromedia, which released FreeHand 5.0, 5.5 (Mac only), 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11/MX. In 2005 Adobe acquired Macromedia, thus returning the FreeHand product to Adobe.
A flexible application, it was used for page layout (especially since version 4 which was based on Altsys Virtuoso for NeXTStep and had multi-page capabilities) as well as the creation and editing of vector graphic files for print and the Web. - Wikipedia
Architecture: PPC
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Comments
The corrected updater is now available as 2nd download above.
@mrdav: Thanks, but this is likely an admin issue (not even xy's, the actual uploader). I've noticed this with many uploads too. Often a novice uploader will "test" his upload and discover the dreaded amazonaws xml error of the upload not being able to be found, then immediately uploads again (without deleting their original upload) into the same upload position... it results a "_0.xxx" added to its link name.
Not that xy is a "novice uploader", but he made the mistake of re-uploading into the same location without deleting the bad file's link (deleting 1st then re-naming the new upload file is much more effective).
If you go back far enough in "Revisions" you can see xy re-uploaded "freehand8.0.1bupdate.hqx" as an "overwrite" and it got auto-renamed as "freehand8.0.1bupdate_0.hqx"
Its then up to an admin to effect changes and activate amazonaws links - this example of "_0.xxx" type file names is very common for here as you probably realize.
Well, the "_0.xxx" file in this instance got activated, but the DL for the damaged file didn't get updated.
When I initially DL'd to check the usability of this .hqx I would've DL'd the file via edit mode and not waited for activation updates that can take weeks.
Your working link needs to go up in the file's description area, with the hope that an admin will do something about it...
@MikeTomTom
The above link to the updater still downloads the old faulty file. The correct file can be found at
http://s3.amazonaws.com/macgarden/freehand8.0.1bupdate_0.hqxI had the same problems with the adobe indesign 1.5 .sit archive. What I did was reinstall Stuffit Expander with only my base extensions active. Then I restarted my iMac and tried to unstuff it. Now it contains all the extensions and other files and it works pretty good. No crashes yet.
@xy:
Both the Installer and updater are good. Both of these .hqx files extract using Stuffit Expander 5.5 on Mac OS 9.x without a hitch. The updater is also checksum identical to the archive at Adobe's site (as it should be). Looks like these two are keepers now. Thanks to your persistence on perfection
Thanks very much. I did not know that. I will change my preferences to faster compression for the future. Of course, Freehand is made with better compression. If anybody has difficulties opening the hqx-archive please tell me I will rearchive the baby with faster compression.
xy,
Don't worry too much about DropStuff v7 vs. DropStuff v5.
If you start the DropStuff v7.0.3 app, and go into Preferences. Under "Stuffing", change 'Better Compression' to 'Faster Compression'. This will create Stuffit archives that can be opened by Stuffit Expander v5 or later.
If it is set to 'Better Compression' (from memory, this is the default), those unstuffing would require Stuffit Expander v7 or later to unstuff it, which can be an issue for many.
I have replaced both archives. The 8.0 archive is now hqx made with DropStuff 7.0.3. Please test. I did not know that DropStuff 7 is not as good as DropStuff 5 on Mac OS X because I do not use Mac OS X. All my archives are done on Mac OS 9.2.2 native. I will see that in the future I will use DropStuff 5 instead of 7.0.3 if this is works better on Mac OS X. It's just that Stuffit Expander 7.0.3 works much better than Stuffit Expander 5.5 (which is crap). So I thought that also DropStuff 7.0.3 is better than DropStuff 5.5.
The updater archive is again from the adobe website. I hope its good now.
The thing with the stick is just a suspicion. I do not have any problems with it on my good old Lombard. However, I never plug the Lombard into the Internet to keep its HD clean. Instead, for the dirty internet, I use a stinky Windows XP machine. Thus, I transfer everything from a HFS+ stick to a Fat 32 stick and then upload with problematic IE 7.0. During the migration process there might be problems sometimes.
@xy:
Thanks for the link, xy. Just DL'd and it is good. This would suggest that what you put up is damaged or the DL'd archive from MG is bad. But the direct DL from the Adobe link is OK. Lets hope the old mac Hutt archive is recoverable, too. I'm not sure about the stick you refer to, or the OS you are using when read/writing to it. But I have had real bad problems using Stuffit version 7 and Mac OS X. If using Stuffit version 5.5 on Classic or 8 on OS X - I no longer have had any problems. I do not trust and will not use version 7 of Stuffit. YMMV I guess, but it does look like something is giving you grief here.
I will reupload. Maybe the problem here also occured because I have added something just by dragging it into the Stuffit 7 window. I will open the original archive, add my stuff and make a new archive. The original 8.0 archive is from the now defunct MacHut website. Because MacHut is dead I uploaded this. I have tested the installer from the original MacHut archive. It works fine.
The 8.0.1 updater you can download for free from the Adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com/support/freehand/updaters.html
However, the hqx updater uploaded here is from this Adobe website. I will check my version. Maybe it got bad too. It's from the same stick as Canvas 8. I hope my stick is okay. TechTool Pro, DiskWarrior, Disk First Aid and Norton AntiVirus say the stick is okay. Is there any other way to test a stick?
@xy:
I've struck some problems with this DL and the updater, similar to those with Canvas 8.
On Mac OS 9 using Stuffit Expander 5.5 - I get errors about possible damage to the Installer archive and a "use with caution" notice.
On Mac OS X (Tiger) using Stuffit Expander 8 - It extracts the Installer archive without an error message. The main enclosed file "FreeHand 8 Installer" is 12.8 MB (13,364,973 bytes) in size. Can you confirm? If the same then file is likely OK (yet archive itself is perhaps unstable if extracted on a Classic Mac OS).
However the .hqx updater appears to be bad, as Stuffit Expander 8 fails to extract it, then reports:
Perhaps these do need reworking
This is the English version. However, I have added German dictionaries for international users. It is interesting, the dictionaries of Macromedia Freehand and PageMaker seem to be interchangable.
If the main 8.0-sit-archive makes problems while extracting I will upload it again without my additions. The original file without my additions is okay. If there are extracting problems the reason may be same as described by me in the Canvas 8 thread.
If this does not help I will upload the whole thing again with FireFox or IE 8 on Windows XP. For this upload I used IE 7 on Windows XP.