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Adobe Illustrator CS4—What’s New 6
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 shi focus away from your work.
Isolation Mode advances
Isolation Mode now supports more object types, including compound paths, gradient mesh
objects, images, and clipping masks. You can isolate a single object as well as top-level layers.
Control your view while in Isolation Mode with new support for Outline View and with
quick locking and hiding of objects. It’s now easy to add new objects to a particular place in
a stacking order, reducing the need for the Paste In Front/Back and Arrange commands.
Check the new iconic breadcrumbs to see at a glance what type of object you’re editing. e
icons symbolize Layer, Group, Symbol, Path, and Image. e labels in the breadcrumbs are
clickable so you can quickly navigate through your layers and objects.
When you’re nished
working in Isolation Mode, exit using the Escape key.
Use Isolation Mode to work on an object
that may be otherwise dicult to isolate.
Edit object attributes in the Appearance
panel while you’re in Isolation Mode.
Exit Isolation Mode to see the
results of your edits in context.
Breadcrumb icons in Isolation Mode
SmartGuidesreadoutsaresetupin
thePreferencespanel.Viewrotation
angles in degrees, along with guides
that show you relationships with
nearby objects—continuously,
while you transform your selection.