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Adobe Illustrator CS4—What’s New 1

What’s New

Adobe Illustrator CS4 soware, available for both Mac and Windows®, is a comprehensive

vector graphics environment that is tightly integrated with other Adobe Creative Suite

® 4

soware. Discover the power of editing appearances, work eciently with new guides and

panels, and deliver to developers, to printers, and across applications more easily than ever.

Stay ahead of the pace of change with precisely the tools you need for mastering print, web,

interactive, motion, and mobile content design.

With Adobe Illustrator CS4, you can:

Explore new features. Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency

in gradients inspire fresh creativity. Support for multiple artboards is a highly anticipated

update in Illustrator, prompting new ways of working on a wide variety of designs.

Discover hidden gems. Existing features have been polished and hidden functions

uncovered to expose deep capabilities, enabling you to learn new techniques quickly and

take advantage of the true power of Illustrator.

Discover new features and hidden gems that enable you to work eciently

and deliver anywhere. Multiple artboards, transparency in gradients, and a new

Blob Brush tool for uid sketching make Illustrator CS4 a must-have upgrade.

ADOBE

ILLUSTRATOR

CS4

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is also

available as a component of:

•AdobeCreativeSuite4DesignPremium

•AdobeCreativeSuite4DesignStandard

•AdobeCreativeSuite4WebPremium

•AdobeCreativeSuite4ProductionPremium

•AdobeCreativeSuite4MasterCollection

Use multiple

artboards to work

faster across many

designs, all in one

le. And increase

your eciency

with controls right

on your objects,

such as those for

gradients that now

include color-stop

transparency.

Summary of content (11 pages)

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What’s New ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4 ® ® Explore new paths with the essential vector tool Discover new features and hidden gems that enable you to work efficiently and deliver anywhere. Multiple artboards, transparency in gradients, and a new Blob Brush tool for fluid sketching make Illustrator CS4 a must-have upgrade. Adobe Illustrator CS4 software, available for both Mac and Windows®, is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is tightly integrated with other Adobe Creative Suite® 4 software.
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Work efficiently. Access to tools and options directly on your objects, such as with gradient editing, means interaction with Illustrator is simply faster. Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient workflow.
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Transparency in gradients Create a gradient of many colors and define the opacity of any or all individual colors assigned to your color stops. Transparency within a gradient simplifies creating interaction between layers and enables easy mixing and knockouts. Use transparency to create cover-up fades or to reveal underlying objects or images. For example, make a rainbow gradient on one object, and then simply set the blue gradient slider or color stop to 0% opacity level to show what’s underneath.
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Blob Brush tool The Blob Brush tool generates a clean, filled, vector shape while you sketch, even when strokes overlap, merging your paths naturally into a single object that’s easily selected and edited. Now, when you draw, you don’t get the typical jumble of paths, you get an outlined and filled shape—no expansion or Pathfinder tools required. And you can customize how your drawing flows together, choosing options for stroke character and pressure sensitivity.
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Enhanced user experience Stay in the creative groove, thanks to significant interface improvements. Work faster and smarter with the following features that help reduce clicks and make interacting with Illustrator easier and more productive. Options where you work Choose tool options, stay precisely oriented, and make complicated edits to your artwork without interrupting your train of thought.
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Practical Smart Guides Smart Guides are more intuitive and practical, with an unobtrusive look and new behaviors, such as alignment to objects on the artboard rather than to the cursor. New on-object readouts tell you exactly where you are, without your having to shift focus away from your work. Smart Guides readouts are set up in the Preferences panel. View rotation angles in degrees, along with guides that show you relationships with nearby objects—continuously, while you transform your selection.
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In-panel appearance editing Edit multiple object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel. This improved panel shows attributes for single and multiple objects, such as fill or stroke color, which you can edit by simply clicking on the attribute—even when it’s shared among objects. Another new function in the Appearance panel is the ability to control the display of individual attributes.
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Refined graphic styles Apply sets of attributes to objects and text as a single graphic style, layering and combining styles for unique effects. The Graphic Styles panel provides new functionality that includes an option to preview all your styles on the seleted object or group of objects. It’s now easy to choose a style without having to actually apply it. Create new graphic styles by selecting multiple attributes in your Appearances panel.
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Clipping masks demystified Work with masks more easily, thanks to true WYSIWYG behavior. Now, when the clipping object or group is selected, you will see only the clipped area (the visible parts of your objects). Edit the masking object in Isolation Mode or choose to make it visible using the Clipping Path menu options. Plus, with the buttons in the Control panel for Edit Clipping Paths and Edit Contents, you have truly intuitive choices for viewing and editing both your masks and masked objects.
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What’s new in Adobe Bridge CS4 Adobe Bridge CS4—included with Illustrator CS4 —is a visual file browser that helps you search, view, and sort through many assets to quickly find the ones you want.
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Mac OS • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel® processor • Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4 • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family Adobe Illustrator CS4 is integral to the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of products, providing a vector graphics environment that serves as the foundation for design across media.