Customer Reviews

Adobe Illustrator 8.0 for Mac

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I purchased this with the intention of using it on a Mac, and upon putting it in my new macbook pro I was told it was not installable because it was no longer supported. I am screwed. The seller did not indicate any where that it was no longer usable on present day Macs, and the return policy does not allow for software returns unless damaged, with a 15 percent restocking fee and you pay the shipping. In conclusion, I would say that the product was misrepresented, because it is no longer useable and no information was given next to Mac version, that it only runs on older macs! Sometimes we just get ripped off by people who like to not tell us all the facts before they take our money.

The reason I gave it three stars is that I haven't given it a good enough run as a user and when I do I will write another review and I have a feeling it will be 5 stars then. It is supposed to have added many more features that in the last version would have had to be manually programmed in. The last version was outstanding. It just takes practice to draw the vector curves. A book called "Paths and Curves" helped me. It's 4 a much older version, but the technique is the same.

I called Adobe before purchasing> I have a G4 Powerbook running OSX 10.4.11 Tiger. They insured me it would install. THE KEY IS: THE OLD OS 9 VERSION MUST BE INSTALLED UNDERNEATH AND A PROGRAM CALLED CLASSIC 9 RUNS IT. Otherwise it will say it cannot find the OS 9 system folder AND NOT BE ABLE TO INSTALL. This applies to the old versions of other Adobe programs. Photoshop 5.0 did the same thing and had to fix the issue, before it would install and then the Adobe programs installed like a wiz.