• MacDraw/Mac Draft handles simple jobs more easily.
• MacPaint is quicker and easier when bit mapped graphics are sufficient, or when art doesn't have to have the highest quality
• Cricket Draw™ has some PostScript special effects that AI can't easily do*.
• Once you are more familiar with AI, you'll be able to determine when to use it.
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AI is not the tool for all jobs...
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For instance, shadowing and fountaining of objects cannot yet be done in Adobe Illustrator, and making type bind to a curve, although you can simulate it in Illustrator, is not done as easily as in Cricket Draw.