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Adobe Illustrator CS3 What’s New 4
Live Color is also ideal for presenting color options to clients. Quickly change the entire
look and feel of a logo, a piece of collateral, or an illustration to present likely color schemes
in the comp phase of a project. And saving color variations is easier than ever, so moving
from comps to nal production is ecient, thanks to quick application of saved schemes.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional integration
Kick o your Flash projects with Illustrator CS3 and have condence that your vectors will
copy/paste and import reliably. e integrity of critical elements in your Illustrator artwork
is now maintained in Flash, with intact paths—and correct anchor point positions—as well
as gradients, clipping masks, and symbols. Plus, your entire Illustrator layer and grouping
structure is preserved, along with all your object names. Now you can move back and forth
between soware more easily and take full advantage of the strengths of Illustrator to create
intricate and unique vectors for your animations.
Features that are of particular interest to Flash designers include Illustrator symbols and
type tools. Save any Illustrator shape as a symbol that you can paste into Flash, and use
symbol tool options that are now similar in Illustrator and Flash. Take advantage of the
power of Illustrator type tools to create text that you can better control in Flash, choosing to
dene as Regular Text, Dynamic Text, or Input Text, and assigning properties accordingly.
If you’re a Flash designer, on page 7 read about New Document Proles which oer color-
mode and workspace-size presets for web and mobile devices, and the Crop Area tool which
supports crop areas in popular proportions, including dimensions appropriate for Flash.
Another new benet is found across much of the soware in the Adobe Creative Suite 3
family. Enjoy a more standardized and ecient user interface that is particularly benecial
when working with Illustrator and Flash together. Both now oer workspace panels that
dock and group so that you can optimize your workspace for given tasks. You can then save
your workspace as a preset for later recall. Illustrator and Flash now also share common
tool behaviors and other standard interface elements.
No need to redraw in Flash
Do more of your work in Illustrator CS3.
Create intricate vectors, storyboards, and
test sequences that you no longer need to
redraw in Flash. Save production time with
type, layers, and symbols that maintain
their structure and editability when you
copy/paste into Flash.
Access libraries from panels
Libraries of pre-built brushes, thematic
swatches, and graphic styles are more
easily accessible so you can quickly apply
just the eect you want. Simply pull down
your library list using an icon located in
the bottom bar of the tool panels.
Use Live Color with Live Paint to apply
completely new color schemes to all
the objects in a Live Paint group.