I am hoping that someone who is a skilled digitizer who uses Wilcom or perhaps a similar well known mainstay program AND who is also versed in Adobe Illustrator well enough to not be hampered by it's well documented steep learning curve that has evaluated the i2 plug-in. I'm afraid that with my lack of skills and knowledge in digitizing I will not know enough at this point to recognize key missing elements that I would want to have in a program.
I am not skilled at digitizing enough to feel comfortable throwing away 200 clams just to test drive the program. HOWEVER there is no good way to demo the program without dropping a minimum of $200 on their 1 month demo. I prefer to use a mac and the i2 plug-in appears on the surface to be the ticket for those of us in my situation. I am an experienced AI user but am just a fledgling at learning to digitize for embroidery. I am starting a new thread in hopes of attracting an answer specific to the Embroidery i2 plug-in for Adobe Illustrator.