Review: Illustrator CS3
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- Irish Printer, July 2007
If you’re planning on creating vector graphics with any degree of complexity, almost your only decent option these days is Adobe’s Illustrator. The purchase by Adobe of Macromedia pretty much threw the ailing FreeHand onto the scrapheap, while Corel’s CorelDRAW is going PC-only with version 12, marooning legions of Mac-based designers with only Illustrator to cling onto.
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Compared with other CS3 programs, Illustrator has fewer newer features and despite the CS3 makeover, still shows its age a little, with menus that are in much need of simplification and rationalisation. It’s still far too difficult for new users to get to grips with and number of the new features won’t be of interest to print designers, only those who work with multimedia projects.
But the improved interface, the new colour management features and the isolation mode are all solid improvements for existing users, and its Universal Binary status will make it very appealing to anyone using CS2 on an Intel Mac. In summary, worth buying if you’re on CS2, but probably worth weighing the pros and cons of if you don’t yet own it.
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