Programmes which handle vector graphics - a deeper look

Adobe's collections - Publishing Collection


All these investigations leave me completely obsessed by the thought that I have to have my own copy of Illustrator ... and just at that moment the Dustin catalogue for December arrives, as if the gods have intervened, and there it is - the Adobe Publishing collection:

- Photoshop 7 - which I went to a seminar on in Östersund a month ago and want in a vague kind of way ...

- & Illustrator 10

- and PageMaker 7

- AND Acrobat 5 (editor)

... a clip at 'only' $1.400 ...

Of course Photoshop 5 still does everything I want and a whole lot more, I don't even use v.6 though I could; of course I've already got Acrobat 5 editor through my work for the local college, and the only use I have for paper publishing is for a local magazine I do, and the printer they use for that is perfectly happy with the PageMaker 6.5 I have ...

One very nice feature of the later versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and ImageReady is the 'save for the web' palette: