Operation Manual

USING ILLUSTRATOR

What’s New

Last updated 11/8/2011

Precise arrowheads

You can now select and define arrowheads using the Stroke panel. You can also choose to lock the tip or base of the

arrowhead to the path endpoint.

See “Add arrowheads” on page 156, “Customize arrowheads” on page 156.

Stretch control for brushes

Define the scaling for art and pattern brushes along a path. Choose areas of the brush stroke to be resized in

proportion. For example, you can elongate the middle of a banner, while keeping the detailed, curly ends from

stretching.

Brushes with corner control

Apply art and pattern brushes to a path and get clean results, even at tight bends or corners. Where strokes of different

widths join, or they form obtuse or acute angles, choose options to properly fill points where joins occur.

Bristle brush

With the Bristle brush, paint with vectors that resemble real world brush strokes. You can draw and render artwork

just the way you use a natural media such as watercolors and oils, with the scalability and editability of vectors. The

Bristle brush also provides breakthrough control of painting. You can set bristle characteristics, such as size, length,

thickness, and stiffness, in addition to setting bristle density, brush shape, and paint opacity.

To explore more capabilities of the Bristle brush, use it with the tablet and 6D pen (Wacom Art Pen). The 6D pen

automatically responds to pressure, bearing, and tilt with 360-degree barrel rotation and also provides an accurate

brush preview.

See “Bristle brush” on page 180.

Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices

Create vector objects precisely on the pixel grid for pixel-aligned artwork. It is critical that raster images look sharp,

especially standard web graphics at 72-ppi resolution, when designing artwork for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash

Professional software, and Adobe Dreamweaver. Pixel alignment is also useful for video resolution rasterization

control. In Illustrator CS5, new web graphics tools include type enhancements. Choose one of four text anti-aliasing

options for each of your Illustrator text frames.

See “Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows” on page 61.

Multiple artboards enhancements

The multiple artboards functionality has been enhanced significantly in Illustrator CS5. Some of the new features

include a new Artboards panel, which allows you to add artboards, reorder artboards in the Artboards panel, rearrange

artboards, and create duplicate artboards.