Comment 2 for bug 171186

It is a perfectly valid request, and one that I would
certainly use for same reason as the OP. What is more, since
Freehand is almost certainly in a rather stable state at the
moment, the work to do this is most unlikely to every need
re-doing.

We should, though, not duplicate the efforts being put into
the Uber Converter.

So far as I am aware the latest Illustrator programs use PDF
and I suspect that this might be given priority