Editing Adobe Illustrator (section)

===Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88)===
Development of Adobe Illustrator for the [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] Macintosh began in 1985<ref>{{Citation|last=Adobe Creative Cloud|title=The Story Behind Adobe Illustrator (Part 1 of 3) |date=May 14, 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gaCKT_Ncdk|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-date=August 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817022040/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gaCKT_Ncdk|url-status=live}}</ref> (shipping in January 1987) as Adobe's second software product after [[PostScript]]. Adobe co-founder and CEO [[John Edward Warnock|John Warnock]] created Illustrator in late 1986 to automate many of the manual tasks utilized by his wife, Marva, a graphic designer. It used lines and [[bézier curve]]s to render infinitely scalable graphics.<ref>{{cite news |title=John Edward Warnock (1940-2023) |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=August 25, 2023 |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/john-warnockobituary?id=52932678 |accessdate=August 31, 2023}}{{Dead link|fix-attempted=yes|date=October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=John Edward Warnock (Obituary) |newspaper=Los Altos Town Crier |date=August 31, 2023 |location=Los Altos, California |url=https://www.losaltosonline.com/people/obituaries/john-edward-warnock/article_cf721fd0-475f-11ee-9bc4-7fabc3f3244c.html |accessdate=August 31, 2023}}</ref> Illustrator was released in early 1987,<ref>{{cite web |title=Adobe Explains It All: Adobe Illustrator |author=Anubhav Rohatgi |date=March 23, 2015 |publisher=Adobe Corporate Communications |url=https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2015/03/23/adobe-explains-it-all-illustrator |accessdate=August 11, 2023}}</ref> and became a commercialization of Adobe's in-house [[Typeface|font]] development [[software]] and [[PostScript]] file format. 

Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of [[Adobe Photoshop]]. Photoshop is primarily geared toward [[digital photography|digital photo]] manipulation and [[photorealism|photorealistic]] styles of [[digital illustration|computer illustration]], while Illustrator provides results in the [[typesetting]] and [[logo]] graphic areas of [[graphic design|design]]. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as ''[[Communication Arts]]'') referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.6,<ref>{{cite web |first=Marcin |last=Wichary |url=http://www.guidebookgallery.org/splashes/illustrator |title=Illustrator splash screens |publisher=Guidebookgallery.org |access-date=December 4, 2010 |archive-date=September 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901160716/http://www.guidebookgallery.org/splashes/illustrator |url-status=live }}</ref> was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNLFXKyCy0A |title=Illustrator 88 demonstration video |publisher=Youtube.com |date=September 20, 2007 |access-date=December 4, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101020171920/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNLFXKyCy0A| archive-date= October 20, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' in 1989 listed Illustrator 88 as among the "Distinction" winners of the Byte Awards, stating that with it Adobe had "pulled ahead" of previously industry-dominant competitor [[Aldus FreeHand]].<ref name="byte198901">{{cite magazine |date=January 1989 |title=The Byte Awards |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n371/mode/2up |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |page=327}}</ref>

Early versions of the software did not support working in preview mode and users needed to have two windows open on their desktop in order to have a live preview of their work. One window would show the work in progress and the other window would show a preview of the work in progress.