A native 32-bit application for graphic design and illustration, FreeHand 5 for Windows ($595) comes with more than 500 fonts and 10,000 clip-art images and provides cross-platform graphic illustration. New features include an expandable architecture, style sheets, a spelling checker, search and replace, strike-through, highlighting, optional text-edit windows, an optional text ruler, and special effects. FreeHand 5 also supports text-handling capabilities, which let you lay out multipage brochures and advertisements, and floating palettes. Import/export capabilities let FreeHand open and place CorelDraw 3 and 5 files, as well as files from Illustrator.
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