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Adobe has me sold for now with the comfy interface, the new transparency, blending, and masking features, and the almighty gradient mesh tool introduced a few versions back. Complex documents can really bog the program down, and sometimes switching between applications is marked with a disturbing lag. Illustrator 9 also offers overprint proofing, allowing the designer to preview how spot colors and trapping will look onscreen. This is a powerful improvement, since masking used to be a sometimes difficult and confusing task � to say nothing of the fact that it can be difficult to keep track of how the masks are actually working inside of your document.