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Adobe Illustrator CS4—What’s New 2
Top new features
•Multipleartboards(Page2)
•Transparencyingradients(Page3)
•Gradientsexposed(Page3)
•BlobBrushtool(Page4)
•Integrationanddelivery(Page4)
•Enhanceduserexperience(Page5)
•In-panelappearanceediting(Page7)
•Renedgraphicstyles(Page8)
•Clippingmasksdemystied(Page9)
•Separationspreview(Page9)
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 ecient workow.
Deliver anywhere. Working in both design and development environments has never been
easier. If you’re a designer, you can now deliver editable les to developers for use in rich
Internet applications (RIAs) and experiences. Print delivery is also more reliable with
Separations Preview, and collaboration on motion and video projects is enhanced, thanks
to improved cross-product integration.
Top new features of Adobe Illustrator CS4
e following are features in Illustrator CS4 that enable new ways of working so you can get
the creative results you’re aer more eciently and deliver designs more easily, anywhere.
Multiple artboards
Dene working areas of varying sizes with complete freedom, all within one document.
Work on a variety of projects in a single le and share settings and content across designs.
You no longer need to use page tiling to create multipage PDF les, and you can arrange up
to 100 artboards of dierent sizes any way you want—tiled, overlapping or freeform. You
can even create an artboard inside an artboard to easily export just a piece of a composition.
Multiple artboards provide the most powerful way yet to organize projects with multiple
pages or diverse outputs. Sharing objects, styles, and output settings is a great time-saver,
and you can apply symbols or test color variations with Live Color while viewing artwork
in multiple contexts. Quickly set up bleeds and crop marks, and choose to show video-safe
areas using preset proles.
Export your artboards in any supported le format as a series of les that are automatically
numbered in sequence, or save as a single, multipage PDF le—your choice.
Export any or all artboards with sequential
lenames generated automatically, or
choosetosaveasamultipagePDF.
Set options for each artboard independently.
Arrange multiple deliverables—such as
packaging, cards, and an ad layout—on
dierent artboards, all in one le.