Adobe Illustrator

Please post links to screenshots and/or insights of this vector graphics application. We must learn from strengths and mistakes of others.

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most commercially successful vector graphics applications among artists and graphic designers, with MacromediaFreehand now dead, and CorelDraw coming in as a distant second. However, the relative strength of various vector editors depends on the market; for example in Russia and some other markets in Europe, CorelDraw is more common than Illustrator.

We can often learn more from criticisms of Illustrator than we can learn from praise, and a Corel Draw user by the name of Guntis make some interesting criticisms of Illustrator, especially the comments about how it fails even to be consistent even with Adobe Photoshop.

See also: Inkscape for Adobe Illustrator users

Sample Files

Please consider linking to, or uploading, Illustrator sample file, for which you own the relevant rights.

Screenshots

• Adobe Illustrator 10 win32 Screenshots

• Adobe Illustrator CS

Links

• Adobe Illustrator Official Site
• Adobe Illustrator at Wikipedia
• the Inkscape Roadmap has native support for AI files at milestone 0.45
• An Introduction to Adobe Illustrator including screenshots of the menus which I found very useful for reference.

License

Commercial Proprietary Software. Retails for roughly $500 USD alone but also available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite.

Although Adobe Photoshop Elements provides a budget alternative to the full price Adobe Photoshop, Adobe makes no attempt to provide any such cut price alternative to Illustrator.

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