![]() Recosoft Corporation is the developer of PDF2Office®, the de-facto PDF-to-Excel, PDF-to-Word, PDF-to-PowerPoint conversion utility PDF2Office® for iWork, the only PDF-to-Keynote and PDF-to-Pages conversion application and PDF2ID, the PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool. For more information on Recosoft PDF converters, visit URL: The company is a leader in designing and delivering PDF converters and PDF file conversion software solutions enhancing workflow automation and productivity. PDF2Office, PDF2ID, PDFtoID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Recosoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Our example FreeHand-to-InDesign converted file was generously provided by Seattle designer Katie Dolejsi.Adobe and InDesign are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe System Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. If you are a designer in the Seattle area, don’t miss next week’s follow-up workshop on migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator CS3. This has been my favorite workshop so far this year. Source: This tip inspired by Jason Hoppe’s fantastic workshop last week on migrating from FreeHand to InDesign CS3. ![]() You’ll have to make the judgement for yourself whether this converter is worth the $249 price tag. Make use of those free conversions to test this utility and see how much time it might save you when making the move from FreeHand to InDesign. The demo version of the PDF2ID utility allows you to convert up to 10 documents during the free evaluation. You’ll probably have to combine disjointed text frames, relink graphics to your original images, and adjust positioning of certain graphic elements. Plan to spend some time cleaning up the resulting InDesign files. The PDF2ID conversion is far from perfect. Step 4: Clean-up the resulting InDesign file. Play with these settings a bit and get a sense of what works for your particular documents. There are a number of options you can control when converting PDFs into InDesign. Step 3: Adjust the PDF2ID Conversion Options. With the PDF2ID plug-in installed, a new “Open PDF File” option is added to the InDesign File menu. Step 2: Open the PDF into InDesign using PDF2ID. To prevent compression of the embedded images in your PDF, click on Setup in your export dialog box and set Image Compression to “None.” This does not matter if you plan to relink to your original images after converting to InDesign. In FreeHand, choose File > Export, and pick PDF as the format. ![]() Activate all the needed fonts, and confirm you have all the needed linked files. Open your original FreeHand document in FreeHand. Step 1: Export your FreeHand file as a PDF. The demo allows you to convert a maximum of 10 files.īelow is a simple tutorial that walks you through the basics of converting your FreeHand files to InDesign using this tool. So we recommend downloading the free demo and experimenting with a few of your files before investing in the full version. ![]() Recosoft’s PDF2ID converter sells for $249, and is not going to be the right fit for everyone. ![]() But if you are a designer who has spent years using Macromedia Freehand as a page layout tool, this is one way we’ve tested to help move those old files from FreeHand over to Adobe InDesign.ĭownload and Install the Trial Version of PDF2ID. Export your FreeHand files as PDFs, and use a new tool that converts those PDF files into fully editable InDesign documents: Since then, we’ve been looking for a method to help designers migrate their old FreeHand documents over to Adobe InDesign. In that tip, we argued that most die-hard FreeHand users are happier and more productive switching to Adobe InDesign rather than Illustrator. Last year we published a tip about Adobe dropping development and support for Macromedia FreeHand ( Goodbye FreeHand. ![]()
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