Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

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:

Suite:

Specifications:

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

Tags:

Alternate tool(s):

Corel Draw

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Software/programming languages used:

Adobe Illustrator

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tool: ArcView

Purpose:

A software application for creating, manipulating and analysing GIS (Geographic Information System) data. ArcView may be used to create geographic maps, manipulate spatial features, analyse attributes and characteristics, and visualise spatial information in an understandable form. Current versions of the software enable the user to import and manipulate several content types in a spatial environment, including demographic information, CAD designs, still images and other types of content.

Features:

• Integrated query-building functionality to interrogate a dataset in order to answer research questions. For example, distance measurement, feature location
• Availability of map templates to create a consistent layout and appearance.
• Plug-in support that allows use of first-party and third-party extensions to perform tasks unsupported in the base installation of the software. E.g. raster geo-processing and three-dimensional analysis.

A&H use case 1 description:

‘Predicting the location of hominid sites in Africa and Asia’ project has used the software to geo-reference a dataset of locations in Africa and Asia, in order to assess the relationship between bone collagen preservation and geographic location of archaeological sites.

Publisher:

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Specifications:

Surfer (ASCII & binary) data format

JPEG

Windows Enhanced MetaFile (EMF)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)