| ILLUSTRATION
SOFTWARE |
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The
standard software for a cartographer in producing a map for publication. |
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Adobe
Illustrator - Commercial; Mac. PC/NT |
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Toss up between Illustrator and Freehand. Illustrator
handles text better. |
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Corel
DRAW - Commercial; Mac, PC/NT, Unix |
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Corel Draw takes a unique stand to Illustration
and mixes Illustration, Page Layout, Image-Editing into one program.
Though this looks nice from the pocketbook, purchase Illustrator
or Freehand before Corel Draw. |
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Deneba
Canvas - Commercial; Mac, PC/NT |
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Though Canvas is used and has several nice features,
go with Illustrator or Freehand first. |
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Macromedia
Freehand - Commercial; Mac, PC/NT |
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Toss
up between Illustrator and Freehand. Freehand handles graphics
better. |
| VECTOR PLUG-IN SOFTWARE |
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Various
plugins for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand |
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Avenza MAPublisher
& MAPublisher
LT - Commercial; Mac, PC/NT |
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Illustrator & Freehand plugins that import/export
.SHP, .MAP, and .DXF files without losing GIS attributes |
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Graffix
Software - Trialware; Mac Only |
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Rick
Johnson has produced a number of useful plugins and mini-apps
for Illustrators. These include Concatenate, Nudge Palette, Proof
Block, a variety of Selection plugins and many others. All are
low cost and well worth the money. |
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Hotdoor CADTools
- Commercial; |
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Hot
Door CADTools 2 merges graphic and technical power with a complete
set of 38 drawing and dimensioning tools for Illustrator 7 or
8. CADTools works like other Illustrator tools to make your design
tasks easy and fun! Draw in any scale, dimension and label artwork
with a mouse click, and numerically control objects like never
before. CADTools 2 incorporates dozens of user requests like
scaled rulers, grids, linked dimensions which update with artwork
changes, scaled move, transform and repeat, and dimension styles.
New dimensioning, labeling, and editing tools streamline your
design and polish your presentation! For Macintosh® or Windows®. |
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Hotdoor
Transparency - Commercial; |
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At
last, live transparency effects in Illustrator! Hot Door Transparency
turns Illustrator 8 artwork into transparent lenses which can
be moved and edited with ease. Create dazzling new effects by
overlapping text, objects, and colors with any level of transparency.
Hot Door Transparency even provides a dynamic preview so you
can test the effect before applying it. And the effect updates
automatically when you adjust transparency, shape, color, or
location! |
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KPT
Vector Effects - Commercial; Mac & PC |
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A collection of plugins for Adobe Illustrator,
some of the most popular for cartographers being Simplify, Distort
and 3D Transform. |
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Lucid
Dream Software TransparencyFX - Commercial?; Mac only |
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TransparencyFX
provides a simple-to-use interface for creating true partial
transparency between colored vector objects and background raster
images. For example, headline text placed over a CMYK TIFF image
and colored some color value can be made partially transparent
to the image, allowing the text color and the image color to
be combined while still maintaining the full vector resolution
of the text. |
