Comments on: more templates for everyone

By: steven

steven — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:43 +0000

Huh. It has gotten odd on me. Didn’t do that when I first loaded it. The usual trickery did work, just download and then change the extension to .fh11. But I’ll change the freehand download link above to a zip file instead to keep it safe.

For those of you giving up and going to In Design, I’m also periodically hard at work on a library file of almost everything in these documents. When done, that’ll be posted as well. Thanks to Cinnamon Melchor at AKQA for showing me how useful libraries are in INDD these days, and sending me a sample gesture library file.

By: Bez

Bez — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:27:05 +0000

I tried to download the FH file but it just opened up a browser window filled with code. Would prefer it over the pdf, if you are willing to fix that. Also tried to right-click the link and save linked file to desktop, ended up with a text file full of code.
thanks.

By: gcorzine

gcorzine — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:33:56 +0000

Thanks for the gesture graphics! I look forward to seeing the new mobile diagram stencils.

By: timo

timo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:06:06 +0000

thanks a lot for sharing!

By: steven

steven — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:31:44 +0000

If anyone is confused or annoyed by the PDF version, please don’t be. It is not just for viewing, but can be opened in Illustrator, Photoshop and so on. I can be persuaded to make an Illustrator (CS3) package if you need, so just ask.

In other news, around a quarter of the (many) downloads so far are the Freehand version. So many I cannot believe it’s just folks accidentally clicking the wrong one. So, everyone remember that when saying old software is pointless, or trying to decide what to support with your open-source project, etc. Five years “out of date” and still going.

That said, I’m spending the afternoon drawing my latest project in InDesign.

By: steven

steven — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:21:00 +0000

As an anonymous EileenB pointed out through the contact form, there was a tiny bug in the zoom-in, zoom-out gestures. Links now point to minorly updated versions. Please go ahead and comment here if you find a bug, want to ask for more formats, or anything else.

And, if you can convert it yourself to a different format (like Omni Graffle) that you like to use, either get it back to me or tell me how, and I’ll post it as well.