Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the best vector drawing program on the market. This statement would be more impressive if Adobe hadn’t purchased and read the last rites to Illustrator’s only serious competition, Macromedia FreeHand. Luckily, however, Adobe’s virtual monopoly hasn’t led the company to grow complacent. In the CS3 version of Illustrator, it has focused on improving integration with another acquisition, Flash (70 percent of Flash users also use Illustrator, according to Adobe), and on providing a number of small improvements that add up to a big difference in the program’s usability. Nothing here quite approaches the status of “killer feature” the way CS2’s Live Trace capabilities did, but CS3 is still a worthy upgrade to Illustrator.
Excellent Flash integration. Many improvements to working with anchor points and paths. New Live Color feature. Eraser tool.
If Adobe Illustrator and Flash are already part of your everyday workflow, you’ll definitely want to get Illustrator CS3 for its superior integration with Flash. But even if you work primarily in print, you’ll still find enough significant improvements to key features to justify the upgrade to CS3.
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