The "I hate Adobe Illustrator" Club

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• d_rek0

  i don't see what the fuss about illustrator not handling large amounts of type that well is. It's not a word processing app.... and in that respect neither is InDesign. They're design tools meant to compose type and image; not allow you to type up your dissertation in them.

  That being said... yes. Type handling does suck in illustrator. A few other things that utterly annoy me and perplex me. Layers - why in gods name would I ever want a YELLOW layer that gives all items YELLOW edges.

  Smart guides can still be problematic, snapping to seemingly random places and/or not being precise...

  There are others but on a whole, i think Illy is great. I'd rather have it as a tool than not.

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  • re: yellow layers - what if you're woarking on a mostly dark document? But yeah - I know what you mean.detritus
  • just that it defaults to that color layer... i could understand if the doc was dark but as a DEFAULT?d_rek

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