After purchasing Macromedia from Adobe, the company decided to halt the development of legacy Freehand software, a vector design program, and instead add features to Illustrator; Adobe Illustrator, one of the oldest and premier design and editing software It is vector, and it may not be comparable to any other software except the powerful CorelDRAW software. Using Illustrator, you can design and edit a variety of designs and shapes, logos, logos or badges, boxes, and more. Ai is a proprietary extension of this software that can be imported and edited by various software
-Sophisticated
vector drawing tools
Design with speed and precision. Create compelling vector graphics for
virtually any medium. With precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly
brushes, and advanced path controls, you can experiment freely and capture your
vision with intricate shapes, color, complex effects, and rich typography — all
driven by a powerful performance system.
-Integration with other Adobe solutions
Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output, thanks to tight
integration with industry-leading Adobe Photoshop®, InDesign®, After Effects®,
Acrobat®, and more.
-Adobe Mercury Performance System
Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files
due to native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows®, with RAM and overall
performance optimization.
-Multiple artboards
Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes overlapping or on a
grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print
independently or together.
-Gradients and transparency
Interact with gradients directly on your object — defining the dimension of
elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Even create
gradients on strokes and meshes.
-Crisp graphics and text for web and mobile
Create and align vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for clean,
sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for individual text
frames.
System requirements For Adobe Illustrator CS6
* Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD
Athlon® 64 processor
* Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 and CS6 applications also support Windows 8. Refer
to the CS6 FAQ for more information about Windows 8 support.*
* 1GB of RAM (3GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64
bit
* 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space
required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage
devices)
* 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
* DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
* Some features in Adobe® Bridge rely on a DirectX 9–capable graphics card with
at least 64MB of VRAM