Both, illustrator and indesign, can be used to make presentation boards. Yet I see many people use illustrator for (large) layouts. What can illustrator do that indesign can't do when it comes to layouts and presentation boards?
The benefits of InDesign (or Quark) come with multi-page layouts where you are using multiple layout templates to control the design of many related pages of material.
Illustrator is great for single page work but not so great for a pamphet.
Illustrator has much more advanced vector drawing commands, something which InDesign is seriously lacking. On the other hand, InDesign has better linking features and multiple-page layouts. But it's two completely different packages.
a-f hit right at the core: Illustrator was designed to be a vector-based illustration program as Photoshop is a pixel-based program. InDesign is really not good at drawing anything of even slight complexity in but was meant to be able to import and organize both vector and pixel-based art, control layout, define industry standard color and create and edit text all for the purpose of being professionally printed.
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Illustrator or indesign?
Both, illustrator and indesign, can be used to make presentation boards. Yet I see many people use illustrator for (large) layouts. What can illustrator do that indesign can't do when it comes to layouts and presentation boards?
The benefits of InDesign (or Quark) come with multi-page layouts where you are using multiple layout templates to control the design of many related pages of material.
Illustrator is great for single page work but not so great for a pamphet.
Illustrator has much more advanced vector drawing commands, something which InDesign is seriously lacking. On the other hand, InDesign has better linking features and multiple-page layouts. But it's two completely different packages.
a-f hit right at the core: Illustrator was designed to be a vector-based illustration program as Photoshop is a pixel-based program. InDesign is really not good at drawing anything of even slight complexity in but was meant to be able to import and organize both vector and pixel-based art, control layout, define industry standard color and create and edit text all for the purpose of being professionally printed.
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