Adobe Illustrator 3
Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early magazine ads (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Illustrator 88 was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features.
Although, during its first decade, Adobe developed Illustrator primarily for Macintosh, it sporadically supported other platforms. In the early 1990s, Adobe released versions of Illustrator for NeXT, Silicon Graphics IRIX, and Sun Solaris platforms, but they were discontinued due to poor market acceptance. The first version of Illustrator for Windows, version 2.0, was released in early 1989 and flopped. The next Windows version, version 4.0, was widely criticized as being too similar to Illustrator 1.1 instead of the Macintosh 3.0 version, and certainly not the equal of Windows' most popular illustration package CorelDraw. (Note that there were no versions 2.0 or 4.0 for the Macintosh - although the second release for the Mac was titled Illustrator 88 - the year of its release.) Version 4 was, however the first version of Illustrator to support editing in preview mode, which did not appear in a Macintosh version until 5.0 in 1993.
- excerpt adapted from Wikipedia: History of Adobe Illustrator, versions 1 - 5
- 1st download: Application only.
- 2nd download: Original floppy installers for version 3.0.2 in DiskCopy 4.2 format.
- 3rd download: Original floppy installers for version 3.2 in DiskCopy 4.2 format. Only "Program" and "Tutorial and Utilities" disks.
- If you want the Gallery Disk and ATM installer, grab them from the 3.0.2 set. - 4th download: Adobe Illustrator 3.0 for NeXTStep (disk images).
- 5th download: Adobe Illustrator D1-3.2 German pre-installed.
Architecture: 68k
Systems 6 - 8
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This was THE version of illustrator that I liked most! Clean, simple and with no bloat! Bought it at an Apple expo in New York way back when. I loved it so much so that I resisted all the other updates and used it up until OS9.22 and YES it worked on my old PB. Today, the only comparable (no bloat, simple, effective & efficient) software on the market to do pure vector is Intaglio. A must if you are a serious vector designer.
It's only app + prefs file. I will try upload full version.