Comments on: Vector Paparazzi adds smart shapes to Illustrator

By: Kartenlegerin Samantha

Kartenlegerin Samantha — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:28:45 +0000

Many thanks for posting. That’s exactly what I missed in the AI ever.

By: Kartenlegerin Samantha

Kartenlegerin Samantha — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:23:02 +0000

That’s exactly what I’ve been missing for years in the AI.

By: Astute Graphics

Astute Graphics — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:21:32 +0000

Sorry to all for the Cloaks ‘n Daggers with this movie. However, we can now reveal it was ourselves – Astute Graphics – behind it. If you liked the video, you may like all the official material:

http://www.astutegraphics.com

And thanks to John for posted this, as he was as much in the dark over the movie’s origins as everybody else!

By: foljs

foljs — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:26:40 +0000

True, that.

By: Navarro Parker

Navarro Parker — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:52:08 +0000

Simply amazing! Adobe, you must include this with CS6!

By: Mylenium

Mylenium — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:41:40 +0000

Yeah, definitely. There’s nothing wrong with buying plug-ins for specialized workflows, but parametrized drawing tools should be in the base program. I just hope whoever is behind the plug-ins has the good senses to keep them affordable as indeed otherwise it might be cheaper to just buy another program…

By: Jamhoc

Jamhoc — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:57:09 +0000

Bit of a joke that this has to be added as a plugin in 2011 when it should have been in Illustrator YEARS ago.

By: BJN

BJN — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:53:00 +0000

I’ll betcha CorelDraw is cheaper than the plugin and it has had nearly all of these capabilities for years. Although Illustrator is my primary tool, I still keep CD in the toolkit since it can do some jobs in a fraction of the time it takes using Illustrator’s funky old modal toolbox.

I’ve had my eye on a couple of Illustrator plugins like Hot Door CADTools ($300) and Barcode Producer ($200) but with Corel having a barcode app, callouts and dimension drawing it’s hard for me to cough up half a grand to extend Illustrator for plugins that usually charge for every version update.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:46:34 +0000

btw, as but one example, I googled for more information on using InDesign to publish to EPUB format, found some adobe blog post but the links took me to the showcase page. So I clicked on the “Digital Publishing Technology Center” link at the bottom which took me to this page:
http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2010/01/creating_epub_with_indesign_.html
Now, try clicking the links on that page and see where you end up…

Last week I ran into the same problem exploring scripting. Someone has really poked the adobe website or some nutty marketing manager has run rampant. Either way… very painful.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:38:00 +0000

Has anyone else complained (I’m sure they have) that just about every link to every tutorial/help/whatever now redirects to CS5.5 showcase pages??

By: Kartenlegen

Kartenlegen — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:29:43 +0000

YMMD, i also thought this way, because every new version illustrator offers me how much really wanted new features?

Zero.

By: imajez

imajez — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:32:16 +0000

I seem to recall Corel Draw having rectangles with individually editable round corners 10 or so years ago. This does seem in advance of that, but it should be 10 years on.
I’d also have to say that as much as I love PS and find it very easy to use, Illustrator has always felt clumsy to me and somewhat difficult to work with.

By: v3ktor

v3ktor — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:26:47 +0000

Finally something good happens to Illustrator! And I’m not surprised that it aint from Adobe. They are to busy bloating the program with spraycans that let you spray dolphins onto the canvas.

By: Trond Roar Eide

Trond Roar Eide — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:47:05 +0000

Wow, this will definately change whats practically possible in illustratations and not to forget logos and typography.

But question is then… is this something Adobe is working on? or is it a developer? Lets prey and hope its handed to us by the creatives at Adobe…

By: Mylenium

Mylenium — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:25:24 +0000

The way it’s implemented very likely a plug-in. I wouldn’t expect a native feature to use redundant palettes…