Unfortunately, we found that screen redraws were considerably slower when any kind of complex live effects were involved. Placing and formatting text are intuitive, including controls over kerning, leading, and paragraph spacing. Wrapping text around an object, however, is less than graceful, with no control over how closely text fits an object. That means Illustrator files will be readable and editable in the next version of Acrobat. Illustrator's integration with current Adobe products, however, isn't as seamless as one would hope.
Illustrator has only a handful of Web tools.
You can set your palette to Web-safe colors. You can place URL hotspots, but there is no image slicing or rollover button creation. The color accuracy of our printout when compared with our monitor was perfect, which is extremely important for graphics that are being developed for print. Find out how. ZDNet and ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of ZD Inc. Content originally published in Ziff Davis Media publications is the copyrighted property of Ziff Davis Media.