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Challenges to Collaboration

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June 18, 2018
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Hello everyone

I just wanted to know why there's been no Collaborative Features added by Adobe for Illustrator. Is there not a strong enough demand for it? I personally have faced it a few times when working in a team on a single file. Besides CC being there, what else does Illustrator offer to collaborate? I am kind of new to Illustrator but have seen other products afford collaboration easily and intuitively. What stops Illustrator from doing so?

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sherrym35962383Author

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Monika Gause BobbyH5280 SJRiegel jdanek If we take any product out of the picture what does collaboration mean to designers? How have you collaborated in past and how are you collaborating currently?

Monika Gause

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sherrym35962383 schrieb
what does collaboration mean to designers?

The question was what collabortion means to you.

You still have not answered.

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sherrym35962383Author

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I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. I am using designers and you synonymously. Apologies for the confusion. I am asking what collaboration means to designers independent of a product. If you're asking me what it means to me, I think it is vague, I am looking at it as a deliberate process to work with people in order to arrive at an outcome. Can there be purposeless collaboration, I don't know!

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SJRiegel

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Can you explain what sort of collaborative tools you are looking for?

In all of the years I've been doing this, I have never had the need for more than one team member to make changes to any individual file. When we collaborate, it's more like one person doing the photo work, one doing the illustrations, one doing the writing, and then one putting it all together in the final file.

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jdanek

Inspiring

Didn't Adobe try to create an application right around the time CS2 came out for collaboration? I just cannot remember the name of it, but I am sure it came bundled in CS; but never got off the ground.

Ton Frederiks

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Version Cue was that application.

It made versions of files (like the files saved in the CC files folder had (and will have again sometime in the future).

It allowed collaboration on the same file with check in and check out (which no designer liked to do).

And when you saved a file and someone else restored an older version you got the can of worms that Monika mentioned (especially when another file was placed into the file you were collaborating on (a can of worms inside another can of worms).

I believe the underlying technology is still used in some 3rd party workflow management tools.

Monika Gause

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sherrym35962383 schrieb
I personally have faced it a few times

Maybe that is the reason? "A few times" might just not be enough.

BTW: You could ask for it on http://illustrator.uservoice.com Make sure you give an exact explanation of the workflow you want to achieve.

And maybe you want to try the CC libraries.

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sherrym35962383Author

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Monika Gause,

Thanks for the response. I am kind of new but have faced it a few times already, I guess that is what I meant. But have you come across such challenges, I'm basically looking for a workaround!:P I I have tried CC Libraries though. So it would be great if you could help with that.

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