In January 1995 Altsys was acquired by Macromedia and both Fontographer and FreeHand were incorporated into the Macromedia product lineup. A new version of Fontographer was included in the Macromedia Graphics Suite, which helped its wider adoption. Although development of the font editor was frozen from 1991, when version 4.1 was released, until 2006, many font and graphics designers continued to use it. FontLab, the only serious competitor at the time, was generally considered more difficult to use, although by 2005 it had overwhelmingly replaced Fontographer for most professional font development.
