What's with the box instead of the app icon? : |

Actually, you're just saying you use adobe illustrator, and we're saying cs3 is the latest version :) We've pondered adding version in use support for iusethis, but we're afraid of complicating the interface.

I actually don't use any of the CS3 versions. I am still on CS2 and see no reason to upgrade as of yet.

I think it a bit weird that in order for me to say I use a certain app, it must be the most recent version of that program.

Anyone on this thread complaining about hour-long launch speeds should definitely check out LineForm. Sure it doesn't have as many features as Illustrator, nor the 'industry standard' label, but definitely refreshing when you want to design a logo or something like that.

Okay this was probably one of the very first programs that I used on my Mac Classic. I loved it and still do... to a point. It needs a serious refresh. Adobe, if your reading this, you need to put a lot more effort into Illustrator - many of the annoyances that I see every day have been hanging around for version after version.

Yeah, more speed would be great. Plus, the icon needs to but updated on this site!

Adobe is saying that the main priority for the next release of Illustrator (CS3) will be: Bringing back the usability and speed of Illustrator 8!
Now...that would be something to wish for, right?
I could purchase Illustrator CS3 only for this "feature"... This shows how desperate I am. :-)

There are no alternatives to Adobe software, commercial or otherwise (especially after their acquisition of Macromedia). They're decent at what they do, but I use the software more because nothing else offers their features.

Serious cons: all Adobe software is extremely buggy, very memory hungry and pretty slow (relatively speaking).

Illustrator doesn't deal well with even simple artwork once you have a lot of layers (80 layers on my 1GB PB G4 1.5GHz was painful). You have to be very careful when clicking stuff to prevent the sluggish interface from producing completely unexpected results and ruining your work.

There are MANY wish-list items for Illustrator - too many to ever list in a comment field. The #1 has to be the desire for an Interface overhaul. All Adobe applications are stuck with mid-90's interfaces still.

Illustrator is MUCH better than Photoshop as a tool for every kind of Web graphic. It produces better gradients, better rasterizing than Photoshop import/place, much better font handling, etc. Oh, another wish is for this "suite" of applications to actually start sharing some common code for doing the same work.

BTW, maybe we should get that icon updated... :-/

I actually really like Illustrator. I'm so tired of working with designers who use Photoshop to design Flash websites and force development folks to try to recreate their entire design from scratch when they simply could have used Illustrator and exported to SWF.