Comments on: Illustrator CS4 goodness

By: Hans Duenas

Hans Duenas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:24:27 +0000

Hello Jack,
I have used Illustrator since Illustrator88 and I do love this program. Sadly, I felt that CS3 was a program with many critical bugs and no updates. Now I feel that Adobe is just selling the “Next Version” instead of providing a good update.
I am not asking for perfection, but the bugs left on CS3 are so bad that I am reluctant to update to CS4 and get the same deal of no updates. How different will be CS5 in regards to updates?

By: JP Sevillano

JP Sevillano — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:10:58 +0000

totally amazing… J u rock dude.

By: John Reese

John Reese — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:19:38 +0000

I’ve alwas felt Illustrator fell behind the rest of the suite like a red headed step child. I hope they start to catch up with cs4.

By: jimhere

jimhere — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:52:07 +0000

The new Illustrator MM-style gradients look great — the tool plus the ability to control transparency of individual color stops.
I know you can do this in Photoshop, but only through a modal gradient picker. PS CS4 has many non-modal “panels”, is color one of them?
“Add-to” as well as “replace” graphic styles is handy, too. I used to have to duplicate objects just to remember what the original layered styles were.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:03:17 +0000

“I swear because I care”…
I am going to use that at work! Thanks John, and to the rest of team for making Photoshop what it is.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:07:28 +0000

So when will we see a glyph palette in Photoshop? :-) It is a bit tiring having to tab out to the system or another app to find those weird arrows/symbols in a typeface (not to mention some exceptional alternate glyphs found in some Adobe fonts).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:51:18 +0000

“The more I’ve played with the new Illustrator, the more I’ve found the “little” changes to have a big impact.”
Oh, you tease, you tease.
[And get paid for it. ;-) --J.]

By: Balliolman@tesco.net

Balliolman@tesco.net — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:27:42 +0000

John, I enjoy reading your blog. CS4 is very appealing. I am an LR2 owner without interoperability with CS3 because my 10.0.1 patch did not upgrade my scripting to 10.0.1.
When will your team be able to fix this anomaly, please? Without it I cannot get the best from my excellent Adobe software. Thank you.
(BTW I have tried more than once to install the patch.)

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:23:44 +0000

Jack, This is off topic, but is Adobe air an app I can install on my web page and have my video's play in this app? [Think of AIR as the desktop version of the Flash Player. (There's more to it, but that's the simplest explanation.) Adobe Media Player (AMP) is an app that runs on top of AIR and that lets you watch streaming shows. Neither one embeds in your Web pages. --J.] I like the player, just would like to use it myself. Thanks Ken from KY