Editing Adobe Illustrator (section)

===Versions 7–10===
[[File:Illustrator 10.png|thumb|Adobe Illustrator 10, the last version before the Creative Suite rebrand]]
With the introduction of Illustrator 7 in 1997, Adobe made critical changes in the user interface with regard to path editing (and also to converge on the same [[user interface]] as [[Adobe Photoshop]]), and many users opted not to upgrade. Illustrator also began to support [[TrueType]], effectively ending the "font wars" between PostScript [[Type 1 font|Type 1]] and TrueType. Like Photoshop, Illustrator also began supporting plug-ins, greatly and quickly extending its abilities.

With true user interface parity between Macintosh and Windows versions starting with 7.0, designers could finally standardize on Illustrator. [[Corel]] did port [[CorelDRAW]] [[Adobe FreeHand|FreeHand]] still not available in Illustrator (higher scaling percentages, advanced find-and-replace feature, selective round-corner editing, export/print selected objects only, etc.).<ref name="ref1">{{cite web |url=http://www.design-tools.com/freehand/ |title=FreeHand Firsts |website=The Nelson Group, Inc. |access-date=April 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530134948/http://www.design-tools.com/freehand/ |archive-date=May 30, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Famously, [[Aldus Corporation|Aldus]] made a matrix comparing its own FreeHand to Illustrator and Draw in which Draw's one "win" was that it came with three different clip art views of the human pancreas.

Adobe bought Aldus in 1994 for [[Adobe PageMaker|PageMaker]].<ref name="ref2">{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n7_v23/ai_15379575/ |title=Merger creates stronger DTP competition |publisher=Folio |date=April 15, 1994 |access-date=February 11, 2011 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> As part of the transaction, the [[Federal Trade Commission]] issued a complaint of [[Adobe Systems]] on October 18, 1994, ordering a divestiture of FreeHand to "remedy the lessening of competition resulting from the acquisition"<ref name="ref3">{{cite web |url=http://www.freefreehand.org/images/FTC.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524203011/http://www.freefreehand.org/images/FTC.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 24, 2010 |title=Federal Trade Commission Decisions, Complaint 118 F. |work=In the matter of Adobe Systems Incorporated, Et Al. |date=October 18, 1994 |access-date=February 8, 2010 }}</ref> because of Adobe's Illustrator software. As a result, [[Macromedia]] acquired Free Hand in 1995 from its original developer, [[Altsys]], and continued its development through 2004.<ref name="ref4">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejgEAAAAMBAJ&q=altsys+Macromedia+acquisition&pg=PA24|title=Macromedia's purchase of Altsys raises questions|publisher=InfoWorld|date=November 7, 1994|access-date=February 11, 2011}}</ref>

The difference in strengths between Photoshop and Illustrator became clear with the rise of the Internet, Illustrator was enhanced to support Web publishing, [[Rasterisation|rasterization]] previewing, [[Portable Document Format|PDF]], and [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]] (Scalable Vector Graphics). Adobe was an early developer of SVG for the web and Illustrator exported SVG files via the SVG File Format plugin.<ref name="ref5">{{cite web|url=https://www.adobe.com/svg/|title=Scalable Vector Graphics|publisher=Adobe|access-date=August 20, 2014|archive-date=September 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920204439/http://www.adobe.com/svg/|url-status=live}}</ref> Using the Adobe SVG Viewer (ASV), introduced in 2000, allowed users to view SVG images in most major browsers until it was discontinued in 2009.<ref name="ref6">{{cite web |url=https://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html |title=Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer |publisher=Adobe |access-date=August 20, 2014 |archive-date=December 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221000422/http://www.adobe.com/devnet/svg/adobe-svg-viewer-eol.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  Native support for SVG was not complete in all major browsers until Internet Explorer 9 in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff974378(VS.85).aspx |title=What's New in Internet Explorer 9 |date=22 March 2011 |work=[[Microsoft Developer Network]] |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=22 March 2011}}</ref>

Illustrator Version 9 included a tracing feature, similar to that within Adobe's discontinued product [[Adobe Streamline|Streamline]].

Illustrator version 10 was released by Adobe in November 2001.