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From its packaging and color to its design and presentation, Adobe’s new Ink & Slide cloud connected pen and ruler set fits hand-in-glove into Apple’s ecosystem. These new hardware tools, offered as part of Adobe’s yearly upgrade of its Creative Cloud suite, target and challenge Adobe’s artist constituency, resurrecting hand-eye coordinated drawing as a really cool thing you can still do. Adobe Line and Adobe Sketch, two free iPad apps for conceptual freehand drawing and drafting, also represent a rare breed — software developed as companion apps for hardware. Brushed aluminum tools are lightweight and attractive. Line is a new approach to drawing…

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