Adobe Freehand

tool: Adobe Illustrator

Purpose: 

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description: 
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photomontage
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Suite: 
Adobe
Specifications: 
JPEG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Unicode
Adobe Freehand
CorelDraw image (CDR)
Windows MetaFile (WMF)
PhotoShop Document (PSD)
Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format (DXF)
TrueType
Plug-in support
Microsoft Word document
Data analysis: 
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Tags: 
design
graphics
raster
vector
Alternate tool(s): 

Corel Draw

Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Illustrator
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 15:29