Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88) [ ] Development of Adobe Illustrator for the began in 1985 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's in-house development and file format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of. Photoshop is primarily geared toward manipulation and styles of, while Illustrator provides results in the and graphic areas of. Varta 15 Minute Charger Manual. Cimatron E10 32 Bit Download here. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as ) referred to the product as 'the Adobe Illustrator'. Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7, was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features. In 1989 listed Illustrator 88 as among the 'Distinction' winners of the Byte Awards, stating that with it Adobe had 'pulled ahead' of Aldus FreeHand.