Adobe Illustrator
is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CS6, is the sixteenth generation in the product line
History
Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88)
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 photorealistic styles 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. As of 2011, the Adobe Illustrator '88 file format is used in the MATLAB programming language as an option to save figures.
Versions 2–5
Although during its first decade Adobe developed Illustrator
primarily for Macintosh, it sporadically supported other platforms. In
the early 1990s, Adobe released versions of Illustrator for NeXT, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Solaris
platforms, but they were discontinued due to poor market acceptance.
The first version of Illustrator for Windows, version 2.0, was released
in early 1989 and flopped. The next Windows version, version 4.0, was
widely criticized as being too similar to Illustrator 1.1 instead of the
Macintosh 3.0 version, and certainly not the equal of Windows' most
popular illustration package CorelDRAW.
(Note that there were no versions 2.0 or 4.0 for the Macintosh -
although the second release for the Mac was titled Illustrator 88 - the
year of its release.) Version 4 was, however, the first version of
Illustrator to support editing in preview mode, which did not appear in a
Macintosh version until 5.0 in 1993.
Versions 6–10
Adobe Illustrator 10, The last version before the Creative Suite Rebrand
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.[9]
Version 9 included a tracing feature, similar to that within Adobe's discontinued product Streamline.
Versions CS–CS6
Illustrator CS was the first version to include 3-dimensional
capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create
simple 3D objects.
Illustrator CS2 (version 12) was available for both the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the last version for the Mac which did not run natively on Intel
processors. Among the new features included in Illustrator CS2 were
Live Trace, Live Paint, a control palette and custom workspaces. Live
Trace allows for the conversion of bitmap imagery into vector art
and improved upon the previous tracing abilities. Live Paint allows
users more flexibility in applying color to objects, specifically those
that overlap. In the same year as the CS2 release, Adobe Systems
announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at
about $3.4 billion and it integrated the companies' operations,
networks, and customer-care organizations shortly thereafter.
Adobe now owned FreeHand along with the entire Macromedia product line
and in 2007, Adobe announced that it would discontinue development and
updates to the FreeHand program. Instead, Adobe would provide tools and
support to ease the transition to Illustrator.
CS3 included interface updates to the Control Bar, the ability to
align individual points, multiple Crop Areas, the Color Guide panel and
the Live Color feature among others.
CS4 was released in October 2008. It features a variety of
improvements to old tools along with the introduction of a few brand new
tools acquired from FreeHand. The ability to create multiple artboards
is one of CS4’s main additions from FreeHand. The artboards allow you to
create multiple versions of a piece of work within a single document.
Other tools include the Blob Brush, which allows multiple overlapping
vector brush strokes to easily merge or join, and a revamped gradient
tool allowing for more in-depth color manipulation as well as
transparency in gradients.
CS5 was released in April 2010. Along with a number of enhancements
to existing functionality, Illustrator CS5's new features include a
Perspective Grid tool taken from FreeHand, a Bristle Brush (for more
natural and painterly looking strokes) and a comprehensive update to
strokes, referred to by Adobe as "Beautiful Strokes".
Version CS6 is the sixteenth generation of Adobe Illustrator. Adobe added many more features and several bug fixes.
Branding
Starting with version 1.0, Adobe chose to license an image of Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" from the Bettmann Archive
and use the portion containing Venus' face as Illustrator's branding
image. Warnock desired a Renaissance image to evoke his vision of
Postscript as a new Renaissance in publishing, and Adobe employee Luanne
Seymour Cohen, who was responsible for the early marketing material,
found Venus' flowing tresses a perfect vehicle for demonstrating
Illustrator's strength in tracing smooth curves over bitmap source
images. Over the years the rendition of this image on Illustrator's
splash screen and packaging became more stylized to reflect features
added in each version.
The image of Venus was replaced (albeit still accessible via easter egg) in Illustrator CS (11.0) and CS2 (12.0) by a stylized flower to conform to the Creative Suite's nature imagery. In CS3, Adobe changed the suite branding once again, to simple colored blocks with two-letter abbreviations, resembling a periodic table of elements. Illustrator was represented by the letters Ai
in white against an orange background (oranges and yellows were
prominent color schemes in Illustrator branding going back as far as
version 4.0). The CS4 icon is almost identical, except for a slight
alteration to the font and the color which is dark gray. The CS5 icon is
also virtually the same, except that this time the logo is like a box,
along with all the other CS5 product logos, with the "Ai" bright yellow.
CS6 changed it a bit to a brown square with a yellow border and yellow
lettering.
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