anti-illustrator
adobe illustrator has its purposes, but let those purposes NOT be to tweak matlab output so that it looks more aesthetically pleasing. matlab output edited by illustrator one time is tolerable, but if you have to do it two, three, four times before you get your final plot, you're likely to poke your eyes out with a blunt object.
don't be a fool!
not that i've mastered these commands yet, but