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Adobe Illustrator Software Product Information, Documentation, Technotes, and Illustrator Software Reviews
Within the Adobe Illustrator Reveiws, Software Product Information, Documentation, Technotes page below You'll find official Illustrator CS3 reviews and Adobe Illustrator product information and help, including Illustrator CS3.
See also our other pages on Adobe Illustrator: Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Books, Adobe Illustrator Brushes, Adobe Illustrator Symbols, and Adobe Illustrator Discussion Lists, Forums, Blogs, Sites.
Do you know of some good articles, tutorials, books, or resources related to Adobe Illustrator, vector graphics, brushes, symbols, shapes, gradients, Web graphics, or graphics programs? Recommendations are welcome and appreciated!
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- Adobe Illustrator Product Information, Help
- Adobe Illustrator Bugs, Bug Fixes
- Reviews of Adobe Illustrator
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- Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Articles, Extensions, Discussion Lists, Resources, Books
- Adobe Flash Tutorials, Articles, Resources, Discussion Lists, Books, Software
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- Freehand, Other Graphics Software, and Related Tutorials, Articles, Resources
Adobe Illustrator Product Information, Help
Adobe Illustrator is the longtime industry-standard vector graphics software. Integrates beautifully with Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe products. Available for Windows and Mac (links to information, reviews via amazon.com): Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Windows), Adobe Illustrator CS3 Upgrade (Windows) (Upgrade from Illustrator 10, CS, or CS2), Adobe Illustrator CS3 Upgrade from Freehand (Windows), Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Mac), Adobe Illustrator CS3 Upgrade (Mac) (Upgrade from Illustrator 10, CS, or CS2), Adobe Illustrator CS3 Upgrade from Freehand (Mac). Illustrator CS3 is also included with CS3 Design Standard and Premium, CS3 Web Premium, CS3 Production Premium, and CS3 Master Collection.
- Adobe Illustrator - Official Site
Section at Adobe for information about Illustrator, purchase and download Illustrator, patches, find tutorials, resources, more. [adobe.com] - Adobe Illustrator Documentation
Download product manuals, release notes, and tutorials from the Adobe Illustrator Documentation area. [adobe.com] - Adobe Illustrator Design Center
Feature articles and videos, Illustrator tutorials by top experts, and links to Illustrator blogs and podcasts, related resources, and more. A great place to find top-notch information, direct from Adobe's website. [adobe.com] - Adobe Illustrator Support
Official support documentation and technotes for Illustrator. Sections include Top Issues, Recent Documents, Installation Help, and you can also search the Knowledge Base. [adobe.com] - Adobe Labs - knowhow
“knowhow is a technology preview that delivers single-click, contextual access to relevant help information from a panel in Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 software. knowhow gives users access to a wide variety of information—basic tool descriptions and short cuts, Adobe Help content, as well as community-generated tutorials, tips, and techniques on the web... knowhow pulls its community-generated content from a (knowhow) user account on del.icio.us... knowhow appears as a standard application panel in Creative Suite 3 software. knowhow is currently included only in the Universal and International English versions of Illustrator CS3. For more information, please see the knowhow FAQ (PDF).” [Adobe Labs.]
Adobe Illustrator Bugs, Bug Fixes
If you're having problems with Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator Support is a good place to start in addition to the links below.
- Adobe Illustrator: Recent Documents
This RSS feed provides links to the latest documents added to Adobe Illustrator Support at Adobe.com. [RSS feed via Adobe Forums.] - Adobe Illustrator: Top Issues RSS Feed
Stay up to date on the latest top issues for Illustrator from Adobe.com by subscribing to their Illustrator Top Issues RSS feed. “Links to these feeds are now displayed in the Forum Header. You should drag those links to a newsreader or RSS Reader Browser add-on in order to view them.” [RSS feed via Adobe Forums.] - Adobe Illustrator Support
Official support documentation and technotes for Illustrator. Sections include Top Issues, Recent Documents, Installation Help, and you can also search the Knowledge Base. [adobe.com] - Illustrator CS3 - the great memory hog.....does anyone else have this problem??
Forum thread on memory issues, freezing, closing abruptly, and “The program has encountered an error and needs to close down (paraphrasing this)...” along with what people do to work around the bugs. [Article/tutorial dated 03/11/2008, by Tom Walace and others, via Adobe Illustrator Forums.] - Solved the Illustrator CS3 Crash Error upon saving file on my OS.
Describes crashing problem when “Print Spooler Service” was set to manual. Further in the thread: “.To summarize: until there is a patch to fix this, your printer has to be available, and Illustrator is then happy. This explains why, for Espart, turning on the print spooler service did the trick. For others, it may be different.” [Article/tutorial dated 05/09/2007, by Espart and others, via Adobe Illustrator Forums.]
Reviews of Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
Helpful review by PC Magazine that covers many of the new features and improvements, such as Live Color, a new and improved Eraser Tool that now works more like Photoshop's Eraser tool, and the “smaller enhancements” that can make such a huge difference: “The elemental task of working with anchor points has gotten much easier: Points now enlarge as you pass the Direct Selection tool over them, ensuring that you're about to select the correct one. You can select a single anchor point while an entire path is selected without deselecting the path first. The handles on all points in a path can be displayed simultaneously. The Align palette now works on individual points, not just on entire objects.”[Article/tutorial dated 05/04/2007, by Galen Fott, for PC Magazine.] - Applelinks.com Review: Adobe Illustrator CS3
If you're wondering about the new features in CS3, check out this review. It's an incredibly thorough, detailed review of CS3, its new features, interface changes, Live Color, crop tool major improvements, Isolation mode, Knowhow, and much more. [Article/tutorial dated 10/15/2007, by Gary Coyne, for Applelinks.] - Illustrator CS3: A few new features make a huge difference
Concise review of Illustrator CS3 via Macworld's Ben Long. Topics cover Interface changes, New drawing tools, Live color, Flash integration, and Macworld's buying advice. [Article/tutorial dated 04/27/2007, by Ben Long, for MacWorld.] - Review: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Author Mordy Golding's review of Illustrator CS3 covers a lot of ground and detail, with plenty of screenshots and examples throughout. Great review to see the new and improved features of Illustrator CS3. He first covers Illustrator CS3's improved performance. Next he covers the new Live Color and other color enhancements, such as the ability to create groups of color swatches, and the new Color Guide panel. Next he covers Illustrator CS3's integration with Flash, the ability to import Freehand MX files, improved image cropping, and the new and improved vector Eraser tool. He then covers other smaller enhancements, including the Live Trace, double-clicking a group that now grays out the rest of the screen to make it easier to edit groups, Align panel improvements, and improvements to the Swatches, Brushes, Symbols, and Graphic Styles panels. In addition, there's a new Lab Experiments panel, currently with 'knowhow' and 'kuler.' [Article/tutorial dated 04/18/2007, by Mordy Golding, for CreativePro.com.] - Review: Illustrator CS3 a good upgrade for serious illustrators
Covers Live Color, Flash integration, Document palettes, New tools, and Other changes. Positive review with several screenshots. [Article/tutorial dated 04/12/2007, by Aaron Lee and Dennis Sellers, for Macsimum News.]
