| Adobe Illustrator |
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. Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in
December 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's
in-house font development software and PostScript file
format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop.
Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital
photo manipulation
and photorealisticstyles of computer
illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early
magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe
Illustrator". Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7 was
released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features.
