Montgomery Burns and Adobe Illustrator :)

[Big Frank]

[handrawn]

dough !!

[Tabian]

Excellent..!

[Rik]

beret: Surely, you can't hate Illustrator, that much?!

Having said that, I have tried repeatedly to use Illustrator and find it very difficult.
That's why I keep using Xara.

I'm not complaining about Illustrator.
I'm just saying that Xara is soooooo easy to use in comparison.

May I add; that's a great drawing.

[handrawn]

ah yes I'd better add that too ... although it always is with beret [excellent copying Frank ]

[A Wrigley]

Very nice well done!

[Big Frank]

cheers steve - at last my talent is recognised (originality not being my strongpoint )

rik - i don't hate illustrator as much as hate what it stands for and hate why it has market dominance

mind you, it is a loathsome pig to use (the last copy i paid for was cs1 so i may be woefully out of date but if you can't bash illustrator, what can you bash?)

[angelize]

Nice drawing Frank. I'm in agreement about Illustrator and Adobe in general. It boggles my mind that so many people will pay nearly 2 grand (before taxes) CAD for CS when there are very good alternatives out there for most if not all of Adobe's offerings at much less the cost!

[handrawn]

all things are relative

in the corporate environment[s] that I am familiar with you would not get xara easily through the door, and its not because its thought of as a 'bad' program its because it does not have a corporate support program - its that simple
in a corporate environment the cost of adobe, with its support and with it being the de facto 'standard', is not much at all for the benefit it brings to the corporation
[Frank as the thread is headed Montgomery Burns... all this is sort of relevant ..... right? ]

CS5 photoshop I like; CS5 illustrator is better than xara for pressure sensitive freehand line art [which is not saying much as in xara you only have the model T ford option, given that the custom brushes in this regard are as much use as a chocolate fireguard] - if illustrator would only smarten up its screen rendering particularly when zooming out I would use it a lot more - its that simple

all things are relative

[Big Frank]

stop being reasoned and logical steve, anybody'd think you're sounding like a moderator

no, wait... never mind