http://www.36point.com/archives/2010/02/166.html A Community for Graphic Designers Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.36point.com/archives/2010/02/166.html/comment-page-1#comment-783 Tom Nemitz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:22:42 +0000 http://36point.com/wordpress/?p=306#comment-783 "I will always think of Illustrator as the dickhead jock of the group." Myself, I consider Illustrator to be the Jeff Gillooly of design software. You know, Tonya Harding's BFF who took out the kneecaps of her biggest competition, Nancy Kerrigan (Freehand) even though they were theoretically on the same side (USA). Anyway, whenever Illustrator acts unpredictable, I yell out, "GILLOOLY!". I call it the Gillooly Patch. While it doesn't actually fix anything, it does make me laugh... which at least keeps me from staying mad. “I will always think of Illustrator as the dickhead jock of the group.”
Myself, I consider Illustrator to be the Jeff Gillooly of design software. You know, Tonya Harding’s BFF who took out the kneecaps of her biggest competition, Nancy Kerrigan (Freehand) even though they were theoretically on the same side (USA).
Anyway, whenever Illustrator acts unpredictable, I yell out, “GILLOOLY!”. I call it the Gillooly Patch. While it doesn’t actually fix anything, it does make me laugh… which at least keeps me from staying mad.

]]> http://www.36point.com/archives/2010/02/166.html/comment-page-1#comment-782 Prescott Perez-Fox Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:43:05 +0000 http://36point.com/wordpress/?p=306#comment-782 I cannot stand the little differences! You're right, Illustrator likes to make its own rules. For example, why when you go to Preferences, does Illustrator refer to "User Interface" and put it almost last on the list, where the other apps call it "interface" and it's usually second or third down. That's mad minute. Also, we need scrubby sliders in other applications besides Photoshop! And how about a unified Print dialogue box!!! Don't even get me started on printing — for example, in Acrobat you can't even get to Page Setup from the Print dialogue box, you have to close that window entirely and select a new menu option. So annoying!! I cannot stand the little differences! You’re right, Illustrator likes to make its own rules. For example, why when you go to Preferences, does Illustrator refer to “User Interface” and put it almost last on the list, where the other apps call it “interface” and it’s usually second or third down. That’s mad minute.
Also, we need scrubby sliders in other applications besides Photoshop! And how about a unified Print dialogue box!!! Don’t even get me started on printing — for example, in Acrobat you can’t even get to Page Setup from the Print dialogue box, you have to close that window entirely and select a new menu option. So annoying!!

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