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Adobe Illustrator vs Adobe InDesign: What are the differences?

Adobe Illustrator: Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations. The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile; Adobe InDesign: The next step in layouts design. The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign can be primarily classified as "Graphic Design" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Adobe Illustrator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 84 company stacks & 61 developers stacks; compared to Adobe InDesign, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Pros of Adobe Illustrator
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    Vector Creation
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    Cons of Adobe Illustrator
    Cons of Adobe InDesign
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      Massive disk space usage
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      Adobe Updater to slow you down even more
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      Expensive
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      Not really a tool for web design
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      Clunky
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      What is Adobe Illustrator?

      The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

      What is Adobe InDesign?

      The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.

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      What companies use Adobe Illustrator?
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      What are some alternatives to Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign?
      Adobe Photoshop
      It is the best in the world of graphic design and image processing software that will realize any of your ideas. Create and enhance photos, illustrations and 3D graphic objects.
      Inkscape
      It is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
      Sketch
      Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.
      Affinity Designer
      No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. It is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done. It was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use.
      Google Fonts
      A library of 915 free licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android.
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