Adobe FreeHand creator code
File type: Graphics file
The .fh50 file extension identifies an Adobe FreeHand creator-code file.
It contains creator information associated with Adobe FreeHand rather than a vector drawing.
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: October 4, 2026
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
Adobe FreeHand was an Adobe application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics. The .fh50 file stores creator-code information that identifies Adobe FreeHand as the application associated with a file.
This information is metadata and is separate from the artwork in a FreeHand document. It does not normally contain the drawing itself.
Adobe FreeHand was available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. The format is obsolete because Adobe discontinued FreeHand.
A .fh50 file is creator-code metadata, not a document intended for standalone viewing. Adobe FreeHand MX for Microsoft Windows may recognize it when it is used with an associated FreeHand file, but the file itself may not display any artwork.
If the file was separated from its original document, there may be no useful way to open it independently.
There is normally no useful conversion for an Adobe FreeHand creator-code file because it contains application metadata rather than artwork.
To convert the artwork, locate the associated FreeHand document and open it in Adobe FreeHand, if available, then export or save the document in a supported graphics format. The .fh50 file itself does not need to be converted.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving fh50 files:
Microsoft Windows
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