Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CC, is the seventeenth generation in the product line.
With the introduction of Illustrator 6 in 1996, Adobe made critical
changes in the user interface with regard to path editing (and also to
converge on the same user interface as Adobe Photoshop), and many users opted not to upgrade. Illustrator also began to support TrueType, effectively ending the "font wars" between PostScript Type 1 and TrueType. Like Photoshop, Illustrator also began supporting plug-ins, greatly and quickly extending its abilities.
With true ports of the Macintosh versions to Windows starting with
version 7 in 1997, designers could finally standardize on Illustrator. Corel did port CorelDRAW
6.0 to the Macintosh in late 1996, but it was received as too little,
too late. Designers tended to prefer Illustrator, CorelDraw, or FreeHand
based on which software they learned first. As an example, there are
capabilities in Freehand
still not available in Illustrator (higher scaling percentages,
advanced find-and-replace feature, selective round-corner editing,
export/print selected objects only, etc.). Corel was never considered a professional level tool by major agencies
or design shops. Famously, Aldus did a comparison matrix between its own
Freehand, Illustrator and Draw, and Draw's one "win" was that it came
with three different clip art views of the human pancreas.
Adobe bought Aldus in 1994 for PageMaker. As part of the transaction, the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint of Adobe Systems on October 18, 1994 ordering a divestiture of FreeHand to “remedy the lessening of competition resulting from the acquisition” because of Adobe's Illustrator software. As a result, Macromedia acquired FreeHand in 1995 from its original developer, Altsys, and continued its development through 2004.
The difference in strengths between Photoshop and Illustrator became
clear with the rise of the Internet; Illustrator was enhanced to support
Web publishing, rasterization previewing, PDF, and SVG
(Scalable Vector Graphics.) Adobe was an early developer of SVG for the
web and Illustrator exported SVG files via the SVG File Format plugin. Using the Adobe SVG Viewer (ASV), introduced in 2000, allowed users to
view SVG images in most major browsers until it was discontinued in
2009. Native support for SVG was not complete in all major browsers until Internet Explorer 9 in 2011.
Version 9 included a tracing feature, similar to that within Adobe's discontinued product Streamline.
File Size : 78MB
Version : 10.0.0
Operating System : Windowx Xp,Windows Seven.
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