and was surprisingly lightweight compared to the modern Creative Cloud suite. It didn’t require a subscription—you bought it once and owned it forever. Should you use it today?
In CS3, the toolbar was fully customizable. You could tear off toolsets (like the "Flyout" menus) into floating palettes. Many old-timers claim that the Pen Tool in CS3 responded 20% faster than the current Electron-based UI in CC versions. adobe illustrator cs3
Adobe Illustrator CS3 is a zombie. It is dead—killed by OS updates and subscription models—yet it walks among us. It lives on in dusty hard drives of print shops, in the offline workstations of industrial label designers, and in the hearts of Gen X designers who miss the "click" of a CS3 toolbar. and was surprisingly lightweight compared to the modern