Difference between revisions of "Adobe Illustrator"

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

Overview

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.

License

Commercial Proprietary Software. Retails for roughly $500 USD alone but is also available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Educational discounts can vary greatly.

Although Adobe Photoshop Elements provides a budget alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe makes no attempt to provide any such simplified alternative for Illustrator.

Further information

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.

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, useful as a reference.

All trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners and used here only for review purposes.

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 == Overview ==
 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 [http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=25166 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]]
 See also: [[Current_PDF_Support#Current_Adobe_Illustrator_support | Current Adobe Illustrator support]]
+=== License ===
+Commercial Proprietary Software.
+Retails for roughly $500 USD alone but is also available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Educational discounts can vary greatly.
+Although Adobe Photoshop Elements provides a budget alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe makes no attempt to provide any such simplified alternative for Illustrator.
+== Further information ==
+We can often learn more from [http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=25166 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.
 === Sample Files ===
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 * An [http://web.syr.edu/~tatoland/illustrator/aimenus.html Introduction to Adobe Illustrator] including screenshots, useful as a reference.
-=== License ===
-Commercial Proprietary Software.
-Retails for roughly $500 USD alone but is also available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Educational discounts can vary greatly.
-Although Adobe Photoshop Elements provides a budget alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe makes no attempt to provide any such simplified alternative for Illustrator.
   All trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners and used here only for review purposes.