Many of us who “grew up” with Illustrator in those early days remember how it opened our eyes to the possibilities of digital artistry. When Adobe Illustrator was released in 1987, the computing world was weaning itself off the CPM operating system, enduring Windows 2.0 crashes, and experiencing WYSIWYG on a Macintosh that looked like R2D2’s homely cousin.

Adobe Illustrator Is Powerful – But Is It Right For You? Read on to discover why Affinity Designer is a powerful low cost alternative to Illustrator, and to view a tutorial on how to open an Adobe Illustrator file (AI) in Affinity Designer and save it in a variety of formats. Are you looking for a drawing app that opens Adobe Illustrator files, without hogging system resources and RAM? Have you considered buying Affinity Designer, and wonder if it has any advantages - besides its low price - over Adobe Illustrator? Or are you a digital design beginner, and need to know if Affinity Designer offers more flexibility and features than something simple and cloud-based like Canva?

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