Adobe FreeHand
Release history

Adobe FreeHand

Section Title: Release history
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Icon	Version	Company	Release year	Platforms	Notable Features (FreeHand firsts)

FreeHand 1.0	Aldus	1988	Mac OS	Work in preview mode Full support for CMYK process color and four-color separations

FreeHand 2.0 (update: 2.0.2)	Aldus	1988	Mac OS	Editable blends. TIFF import. Custom fills and tiled fills.

FreeHand 3.0 (update: 3.1.1)	Aldus	1991	Mac OS, Windows	Multiple pages in any sizes and orientation.

FreeHand 4.0 (update: 4.0b)	Aldus	1994	Mac OS, NeXT a.k.a. "Virtuoso", Windows	A 54-inch square area for document pages, which fits 24 letter-sized pages with extra space for pasteboard items. Wrap paragraphs within columns in tables.

FreeHand 5.0 (updates: 5.0.2 and 5.5)	Macromedia	1995	Mac OS, Windows	Knife tool automatically closes the paths it cuts. Copy and paste attributes from one object to another.

FreeHand 6.0	Macromedia	only existed in beta

FreeHand 7.0 (update: 7.0.2)	Macromedia	1996	Mac OS, Windows	Drag and drop between both FreeHand and Photoshop. Blend between spot colors.

FreeHand 8.0 (update: 8.0.1b)	Macromedia	1998	Mac OS, Windows	Transparency in vector and bitmap objects. Use Symbols for repeating elements.

FreeHand 9.0 (updates: 9.0.1 Mac and 9.0.2 Win)	Macromedia	2000	Mac OS, Windows	Add hyperlinks to objects and export to PDF, HTML or Flash. Export to Photoshop with layers intact.

FreeHand 10.0 (update: 10.0.1)	Macromedia	2001	Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows	Master pages. A Symbol library. Print an area of a page.

FreeHand 11.0 (MX) (updates: 11.0.1 and 11.0.2 in 2004)	Macromedia/Adobe	2003	Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows	Extrude tool for 3D effects to objects. Edit gradients directly within an object.

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Aldus FreeHand 1.0 was released in 1988.

final_sentence: Aldus FreeHand 1.0 was released in 1988.