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Adobe Illustrator CS3 What’s New 1

What’s New

Introduction

Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the essential vector drawing tool for originating designs that go

everywhere. e Adobe Creative Suite 3 family oers a choice of design environments,

and Illustrator CS3 is an integral part of each. Precision drawing tools, rich typographic

controls, advanced live eects, powerful object blends, brushes, color exploration tools,

and much more, provide the vector tools you need no matter what your medium.

With Illustrator CS3, your Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional soware projects benet from

powerful vector tools along with new copy/paste and import delity. For video, vectors are

indispensable for motion eects, masking, titling, and animation. If you’re a print specialist,

color and prepress management, along with PDF output, help ensure high-quality printing.

With Creative Suite 3, you can experience an uninterrupted ow from initial concept to

polished nal execution across print, web, interactive, motion, and mobile. End-to-end

integration is the core of what makes the Adobe Creative Suite 3 family of soware uniquely

powerful—you can remain focused on your creative vision and achieve the highest quality

results in less time.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 oers:

Creative power—Quickly explore multiple design options with new drawing tools, color

controls, and a complete array of powerful features that enable greater creative productivity.

Illustrator CS3 presents a completely new and exciting color environment called Live Color

for exploring color harmonies and interactively applying color to any selection of objects.

Drawing improvements include easier-to-select points and path-editing options now

directly accessible through the Control panel.

Ease of use—Find tools more easily and work faster with improved tool visibility and

operating performance. Increase your eciency with New Document Proles and custom

workspaces. New workspace functions such as collapsible panels and icon views not only

make working in Illustrator faster, but are featured across the Creative Suite 3 family (in

Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe InDesign® CS3, and Adobe Flash CS3 soware).

Adobe Illustrator CS3 software is a fundamental part of the

creative workow, tightly integrated with other components

of the Adobe Creative Suite

3 family. Create vector graphics

with speed and precision for publishing across media.

ADOBE

ILLUSTRATOR

CS3

EXPLORE NEW PATHS WITH

THE ESSENTIAL VECTOR TOOL

Adobe Illustrator CS3 is also

available as a component of:

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

Summary of content (9 pages)

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What’s New ADOBE ILLUSTRAtor cs3 explore new paths with the essential vector tool ® ® Adobe Illustrator CS3 software is a fundamental part of the creative workflow, tightly integrated with other components of the Adobe Creative Suite® 3 family. Create vector graphics with speed and precision for publishing across media. Introduction Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the essential vector drawing tool for originating designs that go everywhere.
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Integration—Move easily between Illustrator CS3 and other Adobe software and take advantage of new output options for easier publishing across media and more seamless workflow and collaboration. Integration features include pre-built Illustrator profiles that are tailored for outputs such as NTSC, HD, and Flash. In addition, new Adobe Device Central CS3 enables testing and preview of graphic content for specific mobile devices.
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Live Color also includes the Live Color dialog box, which provides the tools for dynamically applying colors to selected objects. Select any number of objects in your artwork and access the Live Color dialog box from your Control panel, the Swatches panel, or through the Color Guide. Here you will find a color wheel with the colors in your selected objects mapped to the wheel.
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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 final production is efficient, thanks to quick application of saved schemes.
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Drawing tools and controls The drawing tools in Illustrator have long been the industry standard for power and versatility, with an amazing depth of choice for path manipulation and object design. But drawing needs to be faster and more natural as the pressure to produce more work in less time increases. And powerful options are of no use if you can’t find them. Now, the best vector tool has just gotten better, with the following improvements designed to make your life a little bit easier.
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Control panel Print using DeviceN colorspace Have confidence that native color spaces will be preserved, thanks to DeviceN support. You can now place a Photoshop duotone or separated image, use multi-component and HiFi color, and use raster effects, transparency, and gradient meshes, all with the knowledge that your artwork will separate correctly. The Control panel now puts even more tools at your fingertips.
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New Document Profiles Speed startup by selecting a pre-built New Document Profile for your choice of media when you open a new document. If you’re working on a video project, choose the Video and Film profile and select a size such as NTSC DV. Your color mode will be set to RGB and your artboard will automatically show the format’s dimensions with guides for video and titlesafe areas.
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In the Control panel you can also choose from a list of preset dimensions to set up a crop area specifically for your output medium. In addition, you can create multiple crop areas. Draw as many areas as you’d like, either with custom or predefined characteristics. “Adobe Illustrator helps me find the unexpected that comes from creative exploration.” The Crop Area tool is compelling for designers who like to use Adobe PDF to share their ideas.
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Symbols Symbols in Illustrator CS3 are enhanced for ease of use and better integration with Flash. Symbol options now include defining a symbol type as a movie clip or graphic symbol, assigning the symbol a Flash registration location, and enabling guides for 9-slice scaling. You will also find similar interface elements, such as the F8 keyboard shortcut for creating a symbol and access to options via the Control panel like those in the Flash Property inspector.