Real World Adobe® Illustrator® CS2 [Electronic resources]

The Plug-ins & Scratch Disks Panel

From an architectural standpoint, Illustrator has a core engine, and the rest of the application is built using plug-ins. Illustrator's Plug-ins folder contains all of these features plus additional files such as startup files (see more about startup files in Chapter 1,

The Illustrator Environment ). Additionally, third party plug-ins like MAPublisher, and CADtools are stored in this folder. The Plug-ins preference simply keeps tabs on where this important folder is (Figure C.14 ).