[thelist] Transferring Freehand Mac files to a PC
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 18 22:51:45 CDT 2000
> From: "Shoshannah Forbes" <xslf at xslf.com>
>
> I was sent a floppy with a file created with Mac freehand 5.
> I own freehand 8 for PC, and have to Mac experiance.
> How do I open the file with my windows freehand? Windows (98) does not even
> recognize the formatting of the disk.
- take your floppy and format it on your windows machine... or get
a DOS-formatted floppy (which i assume you have)... if you are
running later than MacOS System 7.something, then it can read
DOS disks...
- take your Mac FreeHand 5 file and add a .fh5 extension to it... be
prepared to substitute fonts, or convert all text to curves, depending
on your need...
- copy the file to the DOS floppy and sneaker-net it to the PC...
- open the .fh5 file in FreeHand on your windows machine...
if you do not have a Mac, call the person and have them format a
disk for DOS on their Mac and send it over that way... or hell, have
them email it...
etc...
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