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(Joey and I were discussing the various merits (and demerits) of Adobe Illustrator. Edited somewhat for readability.)

June 2nd, 2008, 3:20PM
Joey: well, it’s a matter of learning a different program
Joey: it would be cool if it worked like photoshop
Joey: but then everyone who’s been using it for years would have to relearn it
Cameron: yeah, that’s the eternal justification for the legion of inconsistencies between adobe’s products
Cameron: i’m not buying it
Joey: yeah, i mean, it would be nice if they all started moving in a more similar direction
Joey: but you realize that if that happened then you’d have to relearn some of the things you do in photoshop
Cameron: but then it’d work for everything!
Cameron: why is this such a foreign concept?
Cameron: consistency, people!
Cameron: it’s not hard to relearn hotkeys
Cameron: but it IS hard to not smash my monitor when i am using 3 different programs simultaneously that are all made by the same company, all part of the same suite, and have completely different behaviors and hotkeys
Joey: well, the hotkeys thing is easy
Joey: they could allow you to select
Joey: legacy or new
Cameron: i also hate the assortment of dialog boxes with the ‘ok’ button that you hit all the time in photoshop or illustrator
Joey: like what?
Cameron: ‘please enter a value between 0 and 999999.’
Cameron: why not just switch to the max value if the user types something bigger?
Joey: oh yeah, that pisses me off
Cameron: just one example
Cameron: and you have heard my rant about pasting in illustrator, right
Joey: don’t know
Cameron: ok, here is my pasting rant:
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