is a leading program for general graphics work on Macintosh and PC-compatible computers.

Adobe has documented the file formats of earlier Illustrator versions, so that other programs can read and write these files. Due to the fact that they are very widespread, a whole range of graphics programs support the Illustrator format.

Most programs support several older versions of the Illustrator format. More recent versions of Illustrator will be able to save your files in these formats.