Adobe Illustrator Versions By Year _top_ Info

A quality-of-life masterpiece. CS2 introduced the (turning raster images into editable vectors with incredible control) and Live Paint (filling overlapping paths like a coloring book without merging them). It also added Vanishing Point -style perspective grids. Many designers consider CS2 the "golden" version—stable, fast, and feature-complete.

The Troubled Release. Rushed to market to compete with FreeHand 5.0, version 6 was widely considered a buggy disaster. Adobe attempted to unify the codebase between Mac and Windows, but the Mac version suffered extreme performance issues. adobe illustrator versions by year

(Mac) Live editing in preview, , and custom graph creation. 1996 6.0 Added Gradients , Eye Dropper, and Paint Bucket tools. 1997 7.0 A quality-of-life masterpiece