Design Springboard – Adobe Illustrator forum discussions

Adobe Illustrator has long been the default vector drawing package for designers, illustrators and graphic artists.

The following is a selection of some of the discussions that members of the graphic design forums have had.

• Data loss – Illustrator files, amongst others, corrupted on hard drive after defragmentation.
• Freehand versus Illustrator – a discussion on the relative merits of each vector program.
• Font Management for Photoshop and Illustrator
• Working in Adobe Illustrator

The following are a few topics where designers have had troubleshooting issues with Adobe Illustrator. If you are having problems, then you could do worse than check these out. If your issue isn't there, why not post your own.

• Resizing Illustrator files – resizing a batch of files.
• Adobe Illustrator CS 2 help
• Creating a cliping mask in Illustrator CS.
• Missing Adobe Illustrator Control Palette – Some strange goings on with Illustrator CS Tools.
• Illustrator, InDesign, CorelDraw, Mac problem – A designer has some problems launching their programs under OS X Tiger.
• Illustrator CS and Tiger Problems – More OS X issue with Adobe's drawing package.
• Illustrator 10 problem – and again.
• Problem - Illustrator and dreamweaver
• Illustrator is playing up
• Error when opening Illustrator CS2
• Printing in Illustrator

The following are more related to 'How Do I' type of questions. Usually another forum member will have come along and helped out. Want to learn some Illustrator tips, or think that you can offer some advice? Why not become a member of the forums and join in the discussions?

• Rasterizing in illustrator
• Deleting part of bitmap image in illustrator
• Creating a Shape with text only in illustrator
• Creating hyperlinks in Illustrator
• Illustrator to Acrobat
• Edge-to-edge printing in Illustrator
• Upgrade for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• How do you make a stroke over another stroke in Illustrator
• Corel Draw! Has anyone used it for graphics
• Tools panel in adobe illustrator 10
• Placing or importing Illustrator graphics