* Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program by Adobe Systems

** Adobe Illustrator Artwork. ai file format, the native file format used by Adobe Illustrator

Bézier path in Adobe Illustrator

This is commonly referred to as a " path " in vector graphics standards ( like SVG ) and vector graphics programs ( like Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape ).

They are Adobe Photoshop ( a raster-based program for photo editing ), Adobe Illustrator ( a vector-based program for drawing ), Adobe InDesign ( a page layout program ), and Adobe Dreamweaver ( for Web page design ).

Raster images may have been edited in Adobe Photoshop, logos and illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, and the final product assembled in one of the major page layout programs.

Raster-based image editors, such as Painter, Photoshop, MS Paint, and GIMP, revolve around editing pixels, unlike vector-based image editors, such as Xfig, CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Inkscape, which revolve around editing lines and shapes ( vectors ).

SVG images can be produced by the use of a vector graphics editor, such as Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, or CorelDRAW, and rendered to common raster image formats such as PNG using the same software.

* Adobe Illustrator

MacDraw, introduced in 1984 with the Macintosh line of computers, was an early example of this class ; recent examples are the commercial products Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, and the free editors such as xfig or Inkscape.

21st century versions of such editors support vector-like tools ( e. g. editable paths ), and vector editors such as CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator are gradually adopting tools and approaches that were once limited to bitmap editors ( e. g. blurring ).

Recent versions of bitmap editors such as GIMP and Adobe Photoshop support vector tools ( e. g. editable paths ), and vector editors such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Fireworks, Inkscape or SK1 are adopting raster effects that were once limited to bitmap editors ( e. g. blurring ).

EPS, together with DSC's Open Structuring Conventions, form the basis of early versions of the Adobe Illustrator Artwork file format.

* Adobe Illustrator

PageMaker for the PC was released in 1986, but by then the Mac was already the de facto DTP platform, with Adobe Illustrator ( released in 1987 ) and Adobe Photoshop ( released in 1990 ) completing the suite of graphic design software.

Some vector editors support animation, while others ( e. g. Adobe Flash ) are specifically geared towards producing animated graphics.

Vector editors are closely related to desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign or Scribus, which also usually include some vector drawing tools ( usually less powerful than those in standalone vector editors ).

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.

* Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, aimed at web designers ( with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc.

* Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor.

* Adobe Photoshop is a raster-graphics editor ( with significant vector graphics functionality ).

Around the same time other competing W3C submissions were received in the area of web vector graphics, such as PGML from Adobe Systems, Sun Microsystems, and others.

ActionScript was initially designed for controlling simple 2D vector animations made in Adobe Flash ( formerly Macromedia Flash ).

* Adobe Ultra, a vector keying application

Adobe Fireworks ( formerly Macromedia Fireworks ) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor.

SWF ( ) is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript.

Adobe Systems, founded in 1982, developed the PostScript language and digital fonts, making drawing painting and image manipulation software popular.

It is possible to digitally ink using computers, a practice that is becoming more common as inkers learn to use powerful drawing and editing tools, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Inkscape, Corel Painter, and Manga Studio.

For instance, Macromedia would tout new features in the upgrade to its drawing program when buzz was building for an imminent release of Adobe Illustrator.

* Adobe Fireworks, bitmap / vector drawing software previously known as Macromedia Fireworks

SWiSH Max does not support some Adobe Flash features such as ActionScript 3. 0, shape tweens, and bitmap drawing capabilities.

The powerhouse of Adobe Illustrator's vector drawing interface is the pen tool and its set of complementary tools, which offer refined control over curves and anchor points, but do also earn Illustrator criticism for having a steep learning curve.

* Adobe Type Manager, computer program for managing fonts

* Adobe Audition, a sound editor program.

For example, text in Microsoft Word will be rendered on the screen with ClearType enhancement, but text placed in a bitmapped image in a program such as Adobe Photoshop will not be modified.

This opinion is shared by the font designer Thomas Phinney, program manager for fonts and core technologies at Adobe Systems: " There is also considerable variation between individuals in their sensitivity to color fringing.

An example of this exists in the Adobe program After Effects.

* Adobe Photoshop Elements, a bitmap graphics program

* Adobe Premiere Elements, a video editing computer program

For example, a popular software program, Adobe Acrobat, can be used to create content for most computer platforms, under various operating systems.

To ensure that people can access the documents created with Adobe Acrobat, the software publisher created a viewer program, the Acrobat Reader, and made it available for free.

Another common example are quickstarts like those shipped with OpenOffice. org, RealPlayer, QuickTime and Adobe products, in which a bloated program that normally takes a long time to load is kept in memory to reduce the delay in starting it.

In Adobe Flash, shape hints can be added to both original and transformed shapes to give the program a better idea of the interpolation.