lundi 13 janvier 2020

General type of program that Adobe Illustrator is one of

With most program types, I know what to call the whole type, not just the specific individual name(s) of one or more examples of the type. For example...

Firefox, Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Safari: web browsers

Thunderbird, Outlook: email & business administration

Word, WordPerfect: word processors

Excel: spreadsheet
Axxess: database
Lotus 1-2-3: either spreadsheet or database; my memories of it are vague now

Paint, GNU, PhotoShop, PhotoStudio: image editors

(I can also distinguish between a 3d modeller and a 3d renderer, although I've forgotten most of the names I learned when I first dabbled in that ages ago.)



So, what would go after after the colon after "Illustrator"? "Drafting" occurs to me as a possible description of its function, but I can also imagine that word being reserved for the software used by pro engineers designing real things, not just putting text & graphics together for an image/illustration. I can also imagine it being bundled under "image editors", possibly with the adjective "vector" thrown in to distinguish it from the raster focus of conventional image editors, but I don't think I've ever seen that kind of terminology in use.

Also, whatever you call the general type, what would be some other examples of it?


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