Illustrator is graphic design software. It is tailored to it. It's also used for technical work and in a ton of other fields/workflows. We don't need to argue that calling something a tool is a broad categorization. But just because you can whack a nail into a board with the back side of a screwdriver or the side of a saw doesn't make either one a hammer. It's a tool, it was created for a specific purpose. If you can and choose to use it for other purposes that doesn't change what it's original intended use was for.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM, mathog <mathog@...1176...> wrote:
On 07-Mar-2013 18:19, Josh Andler wrote:
The language from it "Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor" does indeed double down on it with that text I pasted which breaks down the SVG acronym.
You guys need to set Adobe straight. All of these years they have been erroneously marketing Illustrator as "graphic design software" when apparently it is really just a ".ai editor"!
_Of course_ the core/native file format used by Inkscape, Illustrator, Powerpoint, etc. restricts each program's capabilities to those that can be represented by some data structure within the file. However, that is not at all how end users think about these programs. They categorize them by the sorts of things they do, and rarely if ever give a second thought to how the data is being organized within the files they save. Perhaps to some of the developers Inkscape is an "SVG editor", but to the vast majority of its users it is a "graphics editor" (or some variant on that term).
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David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech