In working with Illustrator, I found the interface to be very difficult to understand. The main reason was the lack of CorelDRAW's Property Bar. This is a context sensitive toolbar that almost always has the needed button or drop-down list available. Without this in Illustrator, I was constantly searching for the settings I needed. I've got to admit that I did really like the palettes much more than CorelDRAW's Dockers.
Palettes are so much smaller while providing the same functionality.
And the fact that they automatically snap to one another was really nice. I really liked a lot of the new features and many of them are unique to Illustrator. But I also found a bunch of features that just don't exist in Illustrator. Foster D. Coburn III has written six best-selling books on graphics software and is currently the Webmaster of the popular Graphics Unleashed Web site . Because we are getting infected e-mails from you.