Unfortunately, the update is not actually progressing and appears to be frozen.In the Fab Lab we use a CNC software called edingcnc (from ) Starting the uninstall process brought up the Creative Cloud manager program, which immediately started updating… or so it says. Writing this post inspired me to go uninstall my old Adobe programs from when I had a Creative Cloud subscription. People can make very nice artwork with it though. The only way to maintain access to the software is to perpetually rent it from Adobe for a somewhat high price, and when/if you stop paying, the software stops functioning - good for Adobe’s bottom line, bad for anyone who isn’t making a living with it. I also find the bitmap to vector conversion to be terrible, worse than Inkscape and far, far inferior to Vector Magic (which does an excellent job). Not the biggest deal if you have two squares to deal with, but a total PITA if you have 100. two squares that don’t overlap, each made of four individual lines with their endpoints connected) in a single step without drawing an additional (pointless) line between them. And it can’t join multiple sets of touching-but-separated lines (eg. Also, its apparently unable to open DXFs with splines in them without ruining them. Last I saw the software doesn’t even have the option of reversing the direction of zoom when you scroll.

You’re right though, the fact that I hate it doesn’t mean it’s a toy. Nearly every time I’ve used Illustrator I’ve hated the experience.

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