I rarely even use CS versions of Illustrator, since I have a mountain of text-heavy legacy files that comepletely fall apart when brought into any version of Illustrator CS, and my clients aren't willing to invest thousands of dollars to recreate them. Furthermore, I don't use it because most of my clients don't for the same reason. I only keep it around because of the occsional client who throws a CS file my way. Until Adobe improves the type conversion engine things are likely to stay that way. I wonder how many other designers are in the same situation.
There's nothing Adobe can do to improve the conversion of pre-CS to post-CS text. If there was, they would have done it back in CS when the issue was first introduced. It was a necessary change in the technology, and unfortunately, it affected many designers and Illustrator users. It sounds like in your case, you have no choice but to stay in a pre-CS workflow.
Submitted by rwillustrator on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 17:00.
Three cheers for Illy's slice tool! Whoop whoop whoop! Glad it made it into your top 10. I especially love the live slice (the one that changes dynamically to fit edits you make to the contents). Perfect for exporting just one/some elements from a busy illo to gif or jpeg.
Great article. Gets me fired-up to check-out all those features.
Regarding the Pre- v Post- CS AI type engine: I was going to say something snotty but I now think better of it. Hey, man, perhaps there's too much water under the bridge at this point but, I say respectfully, get over it! I know the type engine switch was painful for many (including me) but that was a loooong time ago. I, for one, don't know of another designer who bailed on any post-CS versions of Illustrator due to the type engine. I mean, if you have other ways of getting around the issue, more power to you. You're not, like, using Classic, are you? Wait a minute - that was definitely snotty.
Illusrator: Pre- vs. Post CS
I rarely even use CS versions of Illustrator, since I have a mountain of text-heavy legacy files that comepletely fall apart when brought into any version of Illustrator CS, and my clients aren't willing to invest thousands of dollars to recreate them. Furthermore, I don't use it because most of my clients don't for the same reason. I only keep it around because of the occsional client who throws a CS file my way. Until Adobe improves the type conversion engine things are likely to stay that way. I wonder how many other designers are in the same situation.
Great Job!
Thank you! You got me excited to try some tools I normally ignore.
Pre-Illustrator CS Text Issues
There's nothing Adobe can do to improve the conversion of pre-CS to post-CS text. If there was, they would have done it back in CS when the issue was first introduced. It was a necessary change in the technology, and unfortunately, it affected many designers and Illustrator users. It sounds like in your case, you have no choice but to stay in a pre-CS workflow.
Three cheers for Illy's
Three cheers for Illy's slice tool! Whoop whoop whoop! Glad it made it into your top 10. I especially love the live slice (the one that changes dynamically to fit edits you make to the contents). Perfect for exporting just one/some elements from a busy illo to gif or jpeg.
10 Illustrator resolutions
Great article. Gets me fired-up to check-out all those features.
Regarding the Pre- v Post- CS AI type engine: I was going to say something snotty but I now think better of it. Hey, man, perhaps there's too much water under the bridge at this point but, I say respectfully, get over it! I know the type engine switch was painful for many (including me) but that was a loooong time ago. I, for one, don't know of another designer who bailed on any post-CS versions of Illustrator due to the type engine. I mean, if you have other ways of getting around the issue, more power to you. You're not, like, using Classic, are you? Wait a minute - that was definitely snotty.