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Adobe® Illustrator® CS5

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

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Design with powerful creative tools—Take advantage of exceptional precision and power to create distinctive vector artwork. Combine highly controllable drawing tools with expressive natural brushes and dramatic effects to make unique, striking designs.

Work smoothly and efficiently—Speed up your workflow with innovations that encourage efficiency.Get the job done with purpose and agility using shortcuts and time-savers to take multiple ideas to multiple outputs.

Deliver virtually anywhere—Incorporate vector artwork into essentially any project and deliver resolution-independent graphics across media. Enjoy tighter-than-ever integration with other Adobe products and go anywhere your creativity takes you.

 

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Illustrator® CS5

• Perspective Drawing—Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective. Create the look of realistic depth and distance with snap-to guides to quickly put objects, live text, and symbols into perspective.
• Beautiful Strokes—Adjust stroke width interactively using new width handles. Precisely position arrowheads and symmetrically align dashes. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how patterns behave beautifully at corners.
• Bristle Brush—Paint with vectors that resemble real‐world brush strokes. Control bristle characteristics
• and paint opacity to achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vectors. Define bristle length, stiffness, and shape. Transparency provides lifelike blending.
• Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices—Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. Generate clean, sharp raster graphics by turning on Align To Pixel Grid and using text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.
• Multiple artboard enhancements—Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file, organized and viewed the way you want—overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save,export, and print artboards independently or together.
• Shape Builder tool—Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard. Drag your cursor across overlapping shapes and paths to create new objects and add color without accessing multiple tools and panels. Quickly unite, exclude, trim, and more.
• Drawing enhancements—Work faster with everyday tools. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order.Draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask. Join paths with one keystroke, see rulerorigins at the upper left, a nd scale symbols with 9-slice control.
• Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5—Take Illustrator designs into Flash Catalyst and create interactive experiences without writing code. Roundtrip editing allows you to perfect your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity you added in Flash Catalyst.
• Resolution-independent effects—See raster effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain the ideal appearance across media. Create work for different types of output and know that raster effects will look just right no matter how your resolution settings change.
• Integration with Adobe CS Review*—Create and share—from within Illustrator—online reviews for clients and colleagues down the hall or around the world. Publish your review to the web and see comments in Illustrator so you can track feedback on specific design

Top reasons to buy Adobe® Illustrator® CS5

• Sophisticated vector drawing controls—Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls. Such powerful drawing capabilities provide practically infinite possibilities for creating unique and striking artwork.
• Advanced typography—Enjoy easy type creation and professional control with more than 80 OpenType® fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underlining and strikethroughs, transparent effects, and more.
• Gradients and transparency—Interact with gradients directly on your object, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Control the transparency of individual colors in a gradient, including those applied to a gradient mesh.
• Perspective Drawing—Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective. Create the look of realistic depth and distance with snap-to guides to quickly put objects, live text, and symbols into perspective.
• Beautiful Strokes—Adjust stroke width interactively using new width handles. Precisely position arrowheads and symmetrically align dashes. Control stretch at any point when scaling art brushes on a path, and see how patterns behave beautifully at corners.
• Multiple artboards—Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file, organized andviewed the way you want—overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together.
• In-panel appearance editing—Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels. Work with shared attributes and toggle individual attribute display for faster rendering.
• Drawing enhancements—Work faster with everyday tools. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order.Draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask. Join paths with one keystroke, see ruler origins at the upper left, and scale symbols with 9-slice control.
• Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices—Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. Generate clean, sharp raster graphics by turning on Align To Pixel Grid and using text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.
• Integration with Adobe CS Review*—Create and share—from within Illustrator—online reviews for clients and colleagues down the hall or around the world. Publish your review to the web and see comments in Illustrator so you can track feedback on specific design elements.
• Integration with Adobe design applications—Share files smoothly with other Adobe professional design applications and easily create artwork for multiple outputs. Work across products and across media with roundtrip editing and user interface similarities among Adobe Creative Suite® tools.
• Adobe PDF file creation tools—Create protected, graphic-rich PDF files with Illustrator layers retained, multiple artboards for multiple pages, and color space and transparency handling. Include printer’s marks and bleeds to share files confidently with service providers and with ultimate prepress control.
• Industry-standard graphic file format support—Work with almost any type of graphic file—including PDF, EPS, FXG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, SVG, DWG, DXF, and more.

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