[IxDA Discuss] Illustrator vs Fireworks

[Jonathan Rea]

It really depends on what your using it for. If you want to do vector...
then I got illustrator all the way. The only thing I ever would want to
use fireworks for is optimization. It has a tendency to make files
smaller but really it's all about illustrator and photoshop for me.

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I know that Fireworks has come up occasionally in the discussion of
prototyping tools, so hopefully this isn't too off-topic, but can
someone who's used both FW and Illustrator help me out on something...

Am I suffering from familiarity delusion, or is Illustrator just
horribly antiquated? I recently started using Illustrator 9.0 for a
traditional publishing project. Admittedly, the splash screen copyright
says 1998-2000, so maybe I'm comparing oranges to rotten apples. I hope
that's the whole explanation. I really don't think I'm skewed by having
learned one product first, but I do recall my first touch on MS Word and
wanting to strangle those Wysiwiggers. 

Is it really that bad and Adobe realized they had to buy or die, thus
their purchase of Macromedia?
-Jack
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