User Guide

5
New tools and palettes
Additions and enhancements include
the following:
• New plug-in tools with special func-
tions now appear on a floating tool
palette. The star, polygon, spiral, and
twirl tools replace the Star, Polygon,
Spiral, and Twirl filters in previous
versions. The knife tool cuts apart
objects as you drag, providing an intui-
tive way to divide several overlapping
paths. Third-party plug-in developers
can easily add tools to the plug-in tool
palette or create palettes of their own.
• The eyedropper tool can precisely
sample pixel colors within images from
any application. For example, you can
sample colors from images that appear
in an Adobe Illustrator document, in an
Adobe Photoshop window, or on the
desktop.
• The Control palette shows the loca-
tion, width, and height of selected
objects, and lets you edit the objects by
changing the values in these fields. You
can also enter values to change the rota-
tion and scaling of selected objects.