30/01/1987
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The first versions of Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in December 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format.
Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. When Photoshop is primarily designed toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design.
Early advertisements featured in graphic design trade magazines referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator".