Illustrator

You didn't give any specifics for me to address so I (of course) dismissed it. I've watched people move from PageMaker to QuarkXPress, from QuarkXPress to InDesign, and most people like what they know. I, fortunately, know them all. I can work comfortably in any of them. I just spent the last three days working in QuarkXPress on a 70 page magazine which (hopefully) is going...

The lack of OS X-based Streamline was (and is) Adobe's biggest mistake, as far as I'm concerned. I used it with thrice-daily regularity on my PC, and now, on my Mac, I can't run it without Classic (which is never good, because then you need Classic drivers for your scanner)... I haven't played around at all with Illustrator's bitmap tracing functions. …Flash does a...

I don't think it was in anything earlier than Illustrator 10. I have Streamline 2.0 and it's neat, but not all that useful much of the time because of the bloated, jagged images it creates. ...

As far as I know, the functionality of Streamline is built into Illustrator in the auto-trace and path functions. I wanna say Illustrator 8 was the first to have the auto-trace function, but I'm not sure. I know it was there in 10, but previous to that, I'm not sure. Streamline was a damn good piece of software, though. Still got a copy of it here and my buddy uses it...

from scratch in Illustrator than 'converting' it from raster... ...

This was one of the first links Google presented me on a search for "illustrator bitmap to vector": http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/18132.html?cprose=3-46 You may also want to look in Illustrator's help files: do a search for "auto trace."

I've been seaerching Google and haven't found anything yet, but is anyone aware of a plugin for Illustrator CS (running on OSX) that will convert a bitmap image to vector? (Or even if there's a functionality in Illus. already built in?) m19

As far as I know no such tool exists. Unlike Illustrator and Photoshop. ...

On my primary system, I do not have a copy of InDesign, QuarkXPress, PageMaker or Illustrator as Create is a functional replacement for all of them. ...