Good primer book for Illustrator

[Alex Mantzaris]

I have started for about a few months, for different reasons, but starting out is not easy. I wonder what others think about this because when learning maths or programming I found it alot easier to find teaching material. With illustrator I feel like the explanations are very very short and dense. I recently just found this link:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/illustrator_cs4_help.pdf

and it is a complete book really. A steep learning curve that has little mercy, but is definitely better than the for dummies book which had pages of going nowhere.
(any other views)
Best,
Alex M.

[Les Nemeth]

Yes, AI’s help file seem to be very good and thorough. If you already paid for AI (assuming you did), there’s no reason to spend money on a book that explains the same thing again, but just maybe using different wording – unless, of course you are a book collector, or like the smell of new books (which I do).