With FreeHand MX, will become a true professional of multiple publication, and create sophisticated designs and illustrations that can be used for print, Internet and Macromedia Flash MX projects quickly and efficiently.

Tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. FreeHand's uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper infographics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.

Create extraordinary illustrations, compose documents for printing with lots of graphics in a unique working environment of multiple pages, design scripts for web sites and add animation and interactivity to make your designs come to life online.

FreeHand has had a long and distinguished career since it was first launched 15 years ago, but time has recently seemed to be catching up on it. While Macromedia concentrated its development efforts on its web-oriented MX applications, FreeHand was put on the back burner and fell seriously behind its main rivals, CorelDRAW and Illustrator. So is this latest release evidence of further decline or has FreeHand finally risen to the challenge.

The biggest boost comes from the new Object panel. This incorporates the functionality of the former Object, Fill, Stroke and Text Inspectors into one central panel for controlling everything about the appearance of your design elements. The way that FreeHand MX manages its formatting has also been radically overhauled. In particular objects can now support multiple attributes so that you can add more than one stroke and fill to your object. Each attribute is listed at the top of the Object panel and you can quickly format each in turn.

FreeHand MX is without doubt a fantastic application. The final release is rock-solid (a few re-draw and interface bugs have been ironed out), and has a plethora of great tools that will be invaluable to the professional illustrator, artist or Web designer. Go get.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $349, you can free download and get a free trial.