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Adobe Illustrator CS5 What’s New

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is also

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• Adobe Creative Suite® 5

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Create distinctive vector artwork for any project. Used by design professionals worldwide,

Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing

tools, expressive lifelike brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live

online services*.

Perspective drawing, variable-width strokes, a new brush that lets you control bristle characteristics, and

innovative ways to quickly build shapes, are among the new features in the comprehensive vector

environment of industry-leading Illustrator CS5.

New perspective tools add an exciting dimension to Illustrator, eliminating the need to create your own

horizon lines and vanishing points when you wish to draw a scene or an object in perspective. With the

Shape Builder tool, you no longer use the Pathfinder panel—you simply sweep your cursor across

overlapping objects to merge and divide shapes. And you can even paint watercolor strokes that remain

vectors, now with new edge softness and subtle control of transparency. These powerful new features

make Illustrator CS5 a must-have, but along with the dramatic advances, you’ll find great improvement

to familiar favorites. Strokes now have fully controllable width handles, and the Draw Inside mode

creates masks automatically when you draw or when you place an image—no extra clicks.

With enhanced integration among Adobe products, you can move easily between Illustrator CS5 and

products, such as Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 software, where you can add interaction to your designs.

And new CS Live online services* provide effective collaboration, efficient reviews, and more.

Using Illustrator CS5, you can get the job done efficiently but beautifully, moving quickly from multiple

ideas to multiple outputs with complete control, and delivering exactly what you had in mind.

Adobe® Illustrator® CS5

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provide a powerful way to

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*CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time. See the last page for details and limitations related to all Adobe online services.

Contents

Who uses Illustrator? 2

Top new features of Adobe Illustrator CS5 3

Perspective drawing 3

Beautiful strokes 4

Bristle Brush 6

Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices 7

Multiple artboards enhancements 8

Shape Builder tool 9

Drawing enhancements 9

Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 10

Resolution-independent effects 11

Integration with Adobe CS Review 12

Still using Illustrator CS3? 12

About Adobe Systems Incorporated 13

Summary of content (13 pages)

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 What’s New Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Explore new paths with the essential vector tool Create distinctive vector artwork for any project. Used by design professionals worldwide, Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive lifelike brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services*.
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Top features • Perspective drawing (Page 3) • Beautiful strokes (Page 4) • Bristle Brush (Page 6) • Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices (Page 7) • Multiple artboards enhancements (Page 8) • Shape Builder tool (Page 9) • Drawing enhancements (Page 9) • Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 (Page 10) • Resolution-independent effects (Page 11) • Integration with Adobe CS Review* (Page 12) With Adobe Illustrator CS5, you can: Design with powerful creative tools.
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Top new features of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Perspective drawing Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, and 3-point linear perspectives. The new Perspective Grid tool allows you to turn on a grid that supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective. The new Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective. Easily move and duplicate objects from one plane to another.
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Beautiful strokes In Illustrator CS5, a number of new features have been introduced that make designing with strokes even more powerful and flexible. The core drawing tools within Illustrator merit attention every software release, and with Illustrator CS5 there are five significant updates that new and long-time users will appreciate. You can finely control stroke width, dashes, arrowheads, and how brushes stretch along a path.
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Stretch control for brushes—Define how art and pattern brushes scale along a path. Choose areas of the brush graphic you wish to stretch and those you wish to keep in proportion. For example, you may need to elongate the middle of a banner graphic while keeping the detailed, curly ends of the banner from stretching. New brush options enable full control of how your brush shapes scale and transform.
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Bristle Brush Paint with vectors that resemble real‐world brush strokes. The new Bristle Brush provides breakthrough control of painting. You can set bristle characteristics such as size, length, thickness, and stiffness. Set brush shape and bristle density. And set paint opacity, which uses transparency variations to simulate lifelike blending. When you have chosen the perfect characteristics for your Bristle Brush, you can save it for later use. The Bristle Brush can be used in a variety of ways.
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Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. When you’re designing artwork for Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash Professional software, and Adobe Dreamweaver® software, it’s critical that raster images look sharp, especially standard web graphics at 72ppi resolution. Pixel alignment is also useful for video resolution rasterization control. And in Illustrator CS5, new web graphics tools include type enhancements.
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Multiple artboards enhancements Automatic rotation of artboards in the Print dialog box If your document contains both landscape and portrait artboards, in Illustrator CS5 they will automatically rotate to the correct orientation for printing to a chosen media. For example, in the Print dialog box, choose Portrait Media for all artboards and see in the preview window that your landscape artboards automatically rotate to read vertically on a portrait page.
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Shape Builder tool Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes on your artboard. Drag the 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. If you have ever worked with the Pathfinder panel, you will appreciate the Shape Builder tool. It enables merging objects, breaking overlapping shapes into distinct objects, subtracting areas, and more.
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Symbols are of special significance in Adobe Flash CS5 Professional Use symbols to animate repeated objects. Now, symbol registration points are respected when Illustrator symbols are imported into Flash Professional. Symbol object attributes are among other properties faithfully preserved. Symbols—New 9-slice scaling in Illustrator and registration point control make symbols more powerful than ever.
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After you’ve added interactivity to your designs, you can still make edits and design changes directly within Illustrator. From Flash Catalyst, simply choose Modify > Edit In Adobe Illustrator CS5 and the artwork opens, ready to edit, in Illustrator. For example, you can edit the look of interactive button states in Illustrator while seeing that the structure you added in Flash Catalyst is maintained. When you open an Illustrator file in Flash Catalyst, you see all your layers preserved.
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Integration with Adobe CS Review Illustrator CS5 integrates with Adobe CS Review, one of several new CS Live online services*. With Adobe CS Review, you can create and share online reviews for clients and colleagues down the hall or around the world. From within Illustrator CS5, publish a review of your work to the web. Multiple reviewers can then access your review from a browser without any additional software and make comments right in their browser window with easy-to-use annotation tools.
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System requirements Windows • Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7 • 1GB of RAM • 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) • 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card • DVD-ROM drive • Broadband Internet connection requi