Adobe Illustrator
Illustrator was, in the early days, the graphic design (page layout) application before there was anything else. It was also the application, along with Apple’s Laser Printer, that revolutionized the printing industry. So in a sense, Illustrator is both a former DTP (desk top publishing) application and a normal vector drawing program. It’s quite possible to make the same layouts in Illustrator as you can in InDesign, though it is more difficult, takes longer and lacks a lot of features that InDesign has specifically for this purpose. Illustrator is both a web and print application, but is often regarded falsely as a logo-and-print-only application.
Illustrator can and sometimes should be used for the following web tasks:
•Logos (and that’s a must, because you really want scalability and easily editable logos)
•Small icons (the reason for this: it is much easier to do!)
•Graphics that don’t need to be photorealistic
•Flash (scalability is important)
That is almost complete list for web designing; the only thing missing is photo manipulation! As you can see, Illustrator is a lot more flexible than any other application in the Creative Suite.
What Illustrator should not be used for?
•Photo manipulation, unless you want to vectorize an image
•3D effects - this may come as a surprise for some, but Illustrator doesn’t render complicated artwork especially well (referring here to the Effect Menu in Illustrator, where Illustrator itself renders the 3D shapes). Square models are fine (like a CD case), but if you want fine rounded curves, you should use a true 3D application like Maya, Lightwave or 3D Studio. The rendering Illustrator does is horrible to such a degree that I wonder why they even bothered to add those features with Illustrator. Of course if you have the skills, you could draw your own 3D shapes with no problem at all, but as an Illustrator Effect I wouldn’t recommend it.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
SVG is an open standard graphics file format based on XML. SVG is text-based and, as the name suggests, fully scalable. Most other vector formats cannot be displayed on the Web without first being rasterised. SVG is a non-proprietary alternative to Macromedia Flash, which allows users to create vector objects, animated images, data-driven and interactive content that can be delivered via the Web. Currently, most Web browsers need a plug-in to view SVG content (see note below). SVG can also be delivered via mobile devices (e.g. phones and PDAs) and in print. Further information is available from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
This is a static GIF format image. If your browser is SVG-enabled, you can take a look at an SVG version of the clock which moves in real time and shows the time according to your computer system clock. The SVG 'Analog Clock' is available (together with other SVG examples) on Adobe's SVG Samples page (this link will open in a new browser window).
If after following the link your browser is unable to display the SVG examples, it is probably not SVG-enabled. Internet Explorer requires the Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in. Firefox natively supports some SVG features, but by no means all.
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