Macromedia FreeHand 5

Macromedia FreeHand 5 is the fifth major version of FreeHand, and the first to be released by Macromedia in January 1994 under a licensing agreement with Altsys. It was also bundled as part of Macromedia Graphic Design Studio, one of the first software suites from Macromedia.

Macromedia would acquire Altsys on January 23, 1995.

Version 5.5
FreeHand 5.5 was released for Power Macintosh on September 25, 1995 and added support for Photoshop plug-ins, importing PDF files and creating object-based PICT images. Other new features included Crop, Extract, and auto-expanding text containers with support for inline graphics in text. It was also bundled as part of FreeHand Graphics Studio.

Articles

 * Design 101 – Creating FreeHand’s Software Identity by Michael Scaramozzino, DreamLight. 1995-05.