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Then the next extraordinary thing I discover is that, as proper legal owner of both Dreamweaver 3 and FreeHand 7, I can upgrade to the current version of Macromedia's studio package

- Flash

- FreeHand

- Fireworks

-and Dreamweaver

- for $550 ...

There's one feature of FreeHand I really love: the colour mixer:

the colour mixer:

But otherwise

a) I really don't like Macromedia's style these days, like they call the latest series 'MX' instead of the traditional version numbers everyone can understand, and NO-WHERE do they explain what MX means ...

b) it's not FreeHand I want but Illustrator!

c) I just bought Adobe's LiveMotion as my preferred way of producing Flash movies ...

d) there's no question of my wanting to use Fireworks instead of Photoshop ...

e) I'm perfectly happy with Dreamweaver 3, it's just if I need to be able to put in new features one day which v.3 won't give me ...

"Whatever happened to Macromedia?!"