Hmmm... another case where hate oddly turns ut positive.. ;-)
I've seen Illustrator only as a vector app but of course, as such you can make textholders, textplates, import bitmaps and yadda yadda yadda - just like Corel Draw.
But, I think I'll go for InDesign since it's turning out kind a "standard" around my turf.
Haven't given it that much thought yet, but it seems like high time to.
Sofar I've "only" been concerned with learning to handle Photoshop at the level I want and it's getting there to my utmost satisfaction.
But - I DO have a number of issues with CS2 !!
Very surprisingly is seems Adobe have managed to release a "sluggish" and buggy beast that can crash just about any computer with ease. Like - I've got this 2.2MHz P4 and 1.5 Gb of DDRam on a 400MHz ISB motherboard. With PS 7.1 I can open a 200Mb image, hold down spacebar, put the pen to the Wacom and push the image around the screen no problems. Smallest flick of the pen tip gets an emediate response. Try doing that with CS2 and you'll practice Ctr-Alt-Del A LOT ! And what with this Bridge-thing ?? Is it a Coffie Breake Generator .. ?
K' - enough of this.

And yes Ganthor - I am located in Sweden.
... for better and for worse.
There are some very good things about Sweden that I would miss if being somewhere else, but in regards to this line of work it's a pond where making waves is not seen as a good thing. A small country with too many "little minds" and scarse of space for possibilities.
But hey - now we're into politics here ...

-- Jiger --