Adobe Illustrator 10.0 [OLD VERSION]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005QVPY
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,516 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #16 in Software > Graphics > Illustration
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

While Adobe Illustrator has traditionally been reserved for the print and prepress marketplace, recent versions have targeted a broader audience, including a growing contingent of new-school Web designers. With the latest incarnation of Illustrator, Adobe aims to please both print and prepress designers, as well as cutting-edge Web designer communities. If you're looking for a greater Web focus from your vector graphics program, look no further than Illustrator 10.

For those concerned about Illustrator becoming too Web focused, don't fret. All of Illustrator's previously existing drawing and text tools remain intact. Version 10 also introduces improved tools for drawing lines, arcs, and grids. These new drawing tools will maximize your productivity and provide an easy way to create the shapes you want.

In addition to the new drawing tools, Adobe has jumped on the graphics symbol bandwagon by allowing users to save any text object or graphic object as a symbol. Once objects are saved in the Symbol palette, they can be reused infinitely, thus providing easier management of files and decreased file size. Users will fall in love with the simple drag-and-drop usability of the symbols, while the newly added Symbol Sprayer lets you easily add multiple instances of a symbol directly into the document.

Adobe has also undertaken the task of minimizing the monotony of tedious and repetitive design tasks. By taking advantage of Illustrator-supported scripting languages, users can easily automate repetitive tasks by writing scripts directly in Illustrator. Any of the three popular scripting languages--Visual Basic Script, JavaScript, or AppleScript--can be used. When creating a design, users can assign a text object or graphic object to a variable. These variables can then pull information from any ODBC-compliant database. With this type of power, users can easily create templates for documents such as Web pages or product catalogs.

In this latest version of Illustrator 10, Adobe has managed to enhance its existing drawing tools with powerful productivity aids. By focusing on important workflow, productivity, and database-connectivity features, Adobe has given the user more time to explore new creative possibilities. --Rich Ting

Product Description

Adobe Illustrator 10 can be registered and upgraded to Illustrator CS3 or Creative Suite 3. This is the full retail version not an Upgrade, Educational, NFR, or OEM version.

Adobe Illustrator software defines the future of vector graphics with groundbreaking creative options and powerful tools for efficiently publishing artwork on the Web, in print, and everywhere. Use expanded Web capabilities such as symbols, object-based slicing, cascading style sheet layers, and enhanced SVG and Macromedia Flash support to produce superb Web graphics. Efficiently manage repeating graphics across a Web site and explore exciting creative possibilities using innovative symbolism tools. Distort graphics, text, and images with live enveloping and warp effects, and then edit the distorted objects. Take advantage of enhanced performance, tighter integration with other Adobe products. Use dynamic data-driven graphics to work efficiently: generate unique variations of artwork automatically by defining objects as variables and writing scripts that link the variables to a database. Deliver artwork variations to multiple destinations, such as high-end printing presses, personalized Web pages, e-Books, PDAs, and wireless devices. With Adobe Illustrator 10, your graphics go everywhere you want. Part Number 26001108.

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Customer Reviews

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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fine for Design, Bad for Production, August 25, 2002

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snowleopard (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Having been a working user since Illustrator 5.0, I've seen a great deal of changes in this fine design and production program. Adobe was in my opinion at their pinnacle with release 8.0. Version 9 added transparency effect, but it seemed to drag on the OS (9.x), and one huge change that was unnoticed by most designers put a huge thorn in the side of those working in print or production: Adobe changed their post script management in the exporting of most files to be ripped from true post script, to .pdf. This caused a myriad of problems in the rip world, where the "new and improved" .eps format would not rip, or caused serious rip problems, with images needed embedding (doubling or tripling the final file size), or other work arounds. Hence, many of us never used verion 9.0.

Now comes version 10. This version has the beautiful aqua interface, is much faster than version 9, and a lot of designers will love it for that. Have the problems been fixed? Well, no. As a matter of fact, some are worse. .eps files saved out of 10 as version 8.0 (to hopefully rip better) causes placed files to appear as fragmented, embedded, unnamed, files, causing a total re-design. Files with transparency often rip as solid blocks, or have Pantone colors fall out when used as transparency. While one could argue this is a problem with the rip, it's not the best business ethic to let your customers (production users) have to deal with these hassles, when they should have been ironed out between Adobe and other (rip) software manufacturers. Another feature that appeared in 9.0 is still useless: Automated (batching) actions. Illustrator 10 wants to name every single file the same as the file used in the writing of the action. Making what could be a huge, huge time saver for production works, totally useless. There are also network security issues, where OSX wants to hide AI 10 files when saved to a Windows based server. Adobe also missed the boat in that the save window doesn't allow anything other than the power user window in OSX, and won't allow collumn width adustments. Again, this may all be Apple, (or Windows). But I say iron these issues out before releasing the software and charging users for it, and letting them deal with the headaches.

But before I create a huge laundry list of things wrong with the program, Illustrator does deserve some praise. It's the best looking version to date, that isn't even close. It also makes jumping into basic design easier than ever. And it has many, many web friendly features. Most any designer out there working on basic (or complex) logos, designs and illustrations will find AI 10, for OSX to be the slickest version to date. So you're likely to see a lot of 5-star reviews from those users.

Bottom line: If you're a designer working in OSX, this is a much faster, and nicer version than 9. But a lot of prepress and production workers who use Illustrator day in and day out for print export and rip are going to find the program still has several problems that make it very difficult to use in a production environment. And as that was once Adobe and Illustrator's bread and butter, it leaves me having to give this somewhat negative review.

66 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For Artists Only Plus Buggy, November 20, 2002

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carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

If you are thinking of using this program without having any art ability, I have one word for you: DON'T. Unlike Photoshop, which can be used by people with a variety of image needs, with Illustrator you better already be an artist. I am an artist and this program is taking everything I've got. I find it extremely difficult. This is not to say that it is more or less difficult than any other drawing based art program, just that it is hard. I've always been a better painter than a drawer so that could well be bedeviling me in learning it too. What lowers the grade to a 4 though is that Illustrator 10 seems to have a lot of bugs when you use it on Windows XP, which is what I'm using. I notice another reviewer here catalogs all the problems it presents on a Mac so I caution you that installing it on Windows may not solve those problems. Perhaps Adobe just rushed it a bit prematurely into production. If you go to the Adobe website and then to the Illustrator User Forums, you can see all the computer bugs that users are running into with Illustrator 10. That can give you a better idea than I ever could about some of the problems you will need to work around after installation... The reason I went with this program is that it is the one that is the industry standard. It is also the drawing program taught in most colleges' commercial art departments. Apparently some advanced drawers also use a program called Freehand so you might want to read about that one as well before taking the plunge with Illustrator 10.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY IT, July 18, 2005

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SPM "SPM" (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Adobe no longer supports version 10. My software has stopped working, I have uninstalled and re-installed, and they are instructing me to buy the new $499 version when my 10.0 version is only two years old. They "do not" support version 10 any longer.

Frankly, with this policy, I'll be hard pressed to ever buy another Adobe product.