opening native Freehand 10 documents in Illustrator CS2

[W***@adobeforums.com]

Hello, is there any way to open native Freehand 10 documents in Illustrator CS2 (OS X 10.4.8 /PPC) if there is no possibility to save them as FH9 or eps first? Are there any external converters available? Thanks for help!

[B***@adobeforums.com]

Have you tried making a copy of the original file, changing the file extension to .eps, then opening this new file with Illustrator? (This has worked in the past for me - but since I currently have no FH10 files to experiment with, I can't recall if it was for FH9 and below.)

[W***@adobeforums.com]

I tried this but unfortunately it doesn´t work with Freehand 10 files

[t***@adobeforums.com]

export file as FH9 (one of many choices) or save as 'editable EPS'

[Teri Pettit]

But the original question said "if there is no possibility to save them as FH9 or eps first?"

[t***@adobeforums.com]

my bad...sorry I haven't finished my remedial reading course yet.

there is always the possibility to save them as FH9 or eps first
...this is a bit of work--but--it works.
go to adobe.com--download Freehand MX trial--then you have 30 days to open and resave/convert all the files you want to.

[Teri Pettit]

Yeah, I wondered about that myself. It seems like the most reliable "external converter" would always be a version of Freehand itself.

[W***@adobeforums.com]

A great idea, I will download Freehand MX and convert the files. Thanks a lot!