Illustrator 10

Adobe's Illustrator has long been the drawing package of choice for many graphic artists. It is only natural that Adobe has been one of the first companies to recognize the potential of SVG and that the latest version of Illustrator should include so many fine SVG capabilities.

Illustrator 10 can save and open files in .svg and .svgz file formats (svgz is zipped, or compressed, SVG) and has SVG filter and interactivity capabilities. In this section, we'll take a brief look at some of the ways you can use SVG in Illustrator.