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Adobe Illustrator 9.0 | 
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| From: Adobe
Category: Software
Buy New: $329.00
New (1) Used (3) from $130.00
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 5079
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.8 x 3.7
MPN: 26000945
Model: 26000945
UPC: 718659117177
EAN: 0718659117177
ASIN: B00004TGFJ
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Product Description
Adobe Illustrator 9.0 expands your creative freedom and enhances your productivity with its new Web graphics tools, versatile transparency capabilities, powerful object and layer effects, and other innovative features. Now you can use these fast, flexible tools to transform your creative ideas into sophisticated graphics for use on the Web, in print, or in dynamic media projects.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Illustrator- A Great Addition To Your Graphics Collection... January 25, 2002
Robert D. Shull (Fairfield, OH)
For those of you who design graphics, webpages, presentations, publications, or just enjoy working with a great piece of drawing software, Adobe Illustrator is for you. Adobe Illustrator gives you fine precision over your artwork, so that you can truly make it your own. Using Adobe Illustrator, you will be able to work in the developing field of vector graphics, a great enhancement. Vector graphics are great, because if you need to stretch or skew a picture a vector graphic will remain crisp and sharp around the edges unlike more traditional bitmap style images. You can also save your graphics in the SVG format for use on your webpages. This will help to ensure that your graphic always looks the way that you intended it to. In addition, Adobe Illustrator works amazingly well with other Adobe products (such as Acrobat) so you should have a smooth transition between products. If you are used to using Adobe products, you will also feel very comfortable in the environment of Illustrator, which is very much like that of other Adobe products. Where I can see some problems, is for those of you interested in a simple graphics program without all of the bells and whistles. This program is NOT for you. This program can be a bit complicated at first, but is well worth learning for all of the advanced features. This is a product that you can learn to use well, and when you do you will have a VERY powerful graphics development application at your side.
 Illustrator 9.0 -- clunky and slow for heavy graphics August 25, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've been using Illustrator 9.0 for some months now and the more I do so, the more I wish the program designers had paid a lot more attention to how the program manages memory usage and how it arranges the placement of its various toolbars on the computer screen. I happen to work with very large vector-graphic files, with up to 20 or more layers, and this program has a bizarre way of handling them, I've found. Particularly for any layers with heavy detail on them, the tiny thumbnail views I'm forced to endure in the layers toolbox slow the refresh rate and use of the layers toolbar itself so much that I might be waiting as much as a minute or two for these totally unnecessary thumbnails to refresh themselves after every change made on the unlocked or highlighted layers in question. Minimizing the layers toolbar, of course, speeds things up, but sometimes you can't do that, especially if you are working with more than one layer at once and you are copying or transferring a graphic or image from one layer to another, then you're stuck with the agonizingly slow speed. ....In any case, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND IT IN THE NEXT UPGRADE. Even with the Preview mode turned off so that you are only looking at simple vectored lines of your artwork instead of the complete, final image to help speed things up is only handy on occasion. My next beef: toolbar management. For me, I want to have as much available screen space to see and work on my artwork as possible, and though the toolbars are useful, quite often they are just in the way. Furthermore, the main image-editing toolbar that always appears on the left side is simply too much of a screen hog, especially if I'm dragging a graphic object from one part of the artwork somewhere to the left off the screen -- I always have to drag the graphic object down and around the bloody thing to get to the left side if I want to do any off-screen dragging. A real pain. .... Next beef: styles. The program comes provided with some fancy premade graphic styles, a kind of clipart pattern that appears in full color and in amazing colors, a number of which I'm quite impressed with. One I liked was a representation of rippled blue ocean water (in fact, it was called Cartographic - Ocean Basin). I had planned to use it in some of my artwork, but I soon learned the way they designed the program left it more and more of a problem than any help. The way the program allows you to manipilate swatch colors and gradients, to add textures and glass effects also has inherent drawbacks, I've found. .... A lot of the features in Illustrator 9 *are* great, however, you just have to learn how to use them. It would help if the provided manual was a little less brief and esoteric in its language but explained things a little more explicitly about many things. Learning Illustrator is NOT for the casual graphic artist. It takes patience, a lot of reading, and even more trial and error with the toolbars. And the way the manual explained the main toolbar menu itself was quite a pain. For a long time I had no idea how to access half the toolbar's cursor-tools because the manual wasn't explicit in explaining that I had to hold my mouse-pointer over an arrowed tool-icon for about a second before the other tool-icons I'd read about would appear and be accessible. .... My experiences with Illustrator 9 come from someone who has never used Illustrator or PhotoShop before, so naturally I notice things that an experienced Adobe user may not consider very much. There are a lot of good things in Illustrator, the vector graphics themselves being a huge plus, but if you're a beginner or want to just do quick and dirty (but still very detailed) graphics, maybe you should consider a different product with a faster learning curve (and that manages memory better). So, these are just a few things I've experienced with Illustrator 9.
They Work Well Together: Web Designers and Adobe Illustrator August 21, 2001
Paul Gerstenbluth (East Greenwich, RI USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The most important change to Illustrator 9 is its ability to work with web design projects.
Illustrator 9 combines illustration tools with improved typographic control and image support.
Why Trade Up to Adobe Illustrator 9.0?
Graphic artists using Illustrator 9 now have the ability to work their web design projects in unison with Photoshop 6. Adobe Illustrator 9 offers them a bundle of new features:
Pixel Preview command
Web safe colors when working in RGB mode
Web Optimization
Release to Layers command
Simplify Command; and
Effects menu.
Who Uses Adobe Illustrator?
New Transparency Palette. Adobe illustrator 9 introduces the new Transparency palette. You can now apply varying levels of transparency to any object, bitmap or type character.
You can apply transparency to layers, groups of objects, knockout shapes, stroke and fill. Also, you can create special effects, such as confining blending to a group of objects. Now, graphic artist can create graduated transparencies on blends.
New Features
Several new features in Illustrator 9.0 will be familiar to veteran Adobe Photoshop users:
The new real-time transparency effects. (There is a new tab on the Stroke and gradient dialog, with a slider.) Select an object, slide the transparency value to 80 percent and the objects beneath it show through. You can move the transparent object at will.
New Styles Palette
Apply drop shadows, glows, scribbled outline effects or dozens of other visual effects to any object or text. The text remains fully editable.
The Layers functions are useful to web designers using Adobe Illustrator 9 for improving their drawings.
The new release Layers to Flash function allows Illustrator 9 to be used to produce morphing object and animation effects.
Pixel Preview Mode and Save for Web Dialog
Pixels are now supported as a measurement method. The new Pixel Preview mode allows you to preview your vector objects as they would appear in a web browser. Objects snap to the nearest pixel edge in the document.
This allows you to preview up to four different optimization settings for output to either JPEG, GIF, PNG-8 or PNG-24 format files. Now, you can adjust the resulting image quality, file size, blur, number of colors in the image.
Use the release to Layers feature in Illustrator 9. You can take all the objects in a given layer and assign each object its own layer which is useful for web animation.
Pro Comments
Noted are Adobe Illustrator 9 new Opacity masks, Layer Clipping masks and Feathering functions, and overprint preview.
Excellent hardcopy manual for learning how to use Adobe Illustrator 9 comes with the program. (No Missing Manual)
Adobe Illustrator 9 has True transparency effects, styles palette and improved Flash support. Pixels can now be specified as a global measurement unit for sizing, editing, and laying out artwork.
Con Comments Noted was the missing companion CD with Adobe Illustrator graphics that comes standard with Adobe Pagemaker Plus application.
Also, I noted that some of the Selection tools can be confusing. I found that Masking tool some times flattens layers.
Final Notes
Every day over one million men and women use Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator continues to provide the touch-and-feel tools you need to create brochures, video artwork and web pages. Plus, it's used for making packaging, ads and editorial spreads.
Adobe Illustrator 9 offers graphic artist and web designers more flexibility, better integration, along with new object effects.
 This program is Fantastic!! March 17, 2001
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I must say Adobe makes fine Products and this is one of them, I love it.This program is a Fantastic program!!
A great package! February 16, 2001
Bill Burton (Denver, CO)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is by far the best graphics software available. New improvements to the basic drawing tools, as well as special effects that allow you to change everything to exactly what you imagine combine to produce a fantastic application. Not just the industry standard, but in a class by itself.
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