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Many users wanted it the other way and mostly FreeHand users complained that it was not like FreeHand and that Illustrator users did not know he advantages of using Freehand's much more user friendly way. even though many of them migrated to Illustrator because Illustrator was a more creative tool than FH.

The we have the James and Judy show who insists that everything that FH does is so much better and the Illustrator users do not know what they are talking bout and that unless they are experts at FH they can't say anything about FreeHand even though you tell them you started out using Freehand and found it not suitable and quickly switched to illustrator.

And then the many Illustrator user who have lots of experience using FH in the past also do not know what they are talking about since they have not used FH and FH has developed into a bug laden application that s many FH users gave up because it is unusable.

But�and this is the important art�FreeHand is so much more intuitive�even though most of the people who gave up on FreeHand in the first place to switch to Illustrator did not find this to be so.

Of course according to James and Judy unless you have spent years of working with Freehand to learn all the ins and outs you rally cannot judge as to whether it is intuitive or not.

Which means all the Illustrator users who think it is not intuitive should have invested ten years of learning before judging the intuitive qualities of Freehand.

Yes, you are right, that is crazy!

If you keep the smart guides on you can see the path when you hover over the path but not text.

So what you will have to do is get an old Freehand Manual in order to learn the more intuitive ways of FH in order to learn Illustrator or come back to the forum every time you find a new thing that works strange and ask James and Judy why this confusing procedure is more intuitive.

I am partially joking about all of this but it does go along this type of thinking but if you think the older way has a benefit you might want to ask for a toggle as a feature request.

Lots of users say they prefer this method.