[OS X TeX] Re: OT: Illustrator capabilities (was OT: log from Acrobat 7.0)

[Bill Rowe]

On 7/26/06 at 8:06 AM, will.adams at frycomm.com (William Adams) wrote:

>I don't believe that you know what I want in a drawing program. 

I agree that would be impossible for us to know beyond what you have said

>Take a look at the list of tasks which I wanted to achieve in
>Illustrator --- it doesn't look like this program affords even half
>of what's needed to accomplish these things quickly.

>Looking at this program, I had the following issues after a quick
>pass:

>- it can't open a .eps or .pdf for editing

This suggests your "quick pass" was perhaps too quick. At least, I've had no difficulty opening a PDF with Illustrator and editing that PDF. 

Now I am not a graphic artist and my editing needs are likely very minimal compared to yours. Also, particularly for a multipage PDF, I would not classify the interface as one that allows for quick editing. But it is quite different thing to say the editing allowed doesn't meet your needs than to say Illustrator can't open a PDF for editing.
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