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The industry-standard

vector graphics

software

New Feature Highlights

Adobe Illustrator CS, the industry-standard for creating graphics for print, the Web, and other media, is an

essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually. Innovation is central to the Illustrator legacy, and

as the role of graphic designers has expanded from print to the Web and other media, Illustrator has delivered a

rich feature set and reliable production tools that make delivering work to multiple mediums easy. Now, Adobe

Illustrator CS builds on this tradition by pairing features that open the door to graphic inventivenesssuch as

powerful 3D toolswith forward-looking enhancements to core design tools, including an all-new approach to

type. Tight integration with other leading Adobe tools, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, helps

you work efciently. Performance is faster, and a new printing interface and enhanced Adobe Portable Document

Format (PDF) support enable a exible workow. For creative professionals, Web designers, video professionals,

and other professionals who use graphics to communicate, Illustrator CS is a powerful design tool for creating

the broadest possible range of graphics. With Adobe Illustrator CS, youll be able to:

Explore Your Creative VisionHave fun exploring a limitless variety of creative possibilities, and easily

produce projects using new options that include support for 3D graphics and a playful Scribble effect.

Whatever type of project youre producing, these new features give you more tools for adding visual

impact to your work. Plus, more than 200 professionally designed templates help you jump-start projects.

Use Essential Design ToolsCapture the visual essence of an idea using industry-leading tools that make

the process of creating and rening artwork easy. Create polished typography quickly with powerful new

type features, use the new template le format to reuse your designs easily, and take advantage of numerous

user interface enhancements that help you sustain your creative momentum. Illustrator CS provides the

core design tools you need to communicate your ideas with clarity.

Work EfcientlyUse Adobe Illustrator to make your ideas come to lifethen publish them wherever you

like, from print and the Web to broadcast video, cell phone displays, and more. A completely redesigned

printing interface ensures fast and reliable printing, and enhanced Adobe PDF support expands your options

for sharing les. Performance is faster across the board, so you can work more interactively. And new inte-

gration with Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Ofce streamlines your workow.

This document describes the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS. The rst three sections explain the new

features in the program. The nal section outlines pricing and availability and provides system requirements.

For more information, please visit www.adobe.com/illustrator.

Explore Your Creative VisionAdobe Illustrator CS helps you tap into your creativity. Flexible new 3D options make it easy to add a new

dimension to your work by quickly creating 3D design elements. The new Scribble Effect lends artwork aloose, hand-drawn look instantly. Professionally designed templates help you get projects started quickly. And

you can combine these new features with other essentials like envelopes, live distortion, transparency, sym-

bolism tools, and custom artwork brushes to make your work come alive. When you need to create distinc-

tive graphics or singular designs that bring your talents to the fore, the exible tools in Adobe Illustrator can

help spark your imagination. Theres no better way to highlight your unique perspective than to experiment

freely in an environment that prizes your creativity.

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Contents

Explore Your Creative Vision 1

Use Essential Design Tools 5

Work Efciently 11

Availability and Pricing 15

Adobe

Illustrator

CS

About Adobe Illustrator CS

Adobe Illustrator CS is a part of

the Adobe Creative Suite.TheAdobe Creative Suite is a completedesign solution that providestodays creative professionals withthe tools they need to create andpublish content for print and theWeb faster, more easily, and moreaffordably than ever.


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To create this packaging mockup for a winebottle, we drew an outline (far left), used the 3Deffect to rotate it (center), and then mapped alabel that was saved as a symbol (right) onto thebottles surface. A separate 3D object was createdfor the cork.

3D Effect

Rendering objects in perspective is a time-honored way to bring the illusion of depth to printed materials.

Now, Illustrator CS makes it easy to add 3D elements to your work, whether youre producing a logo, a pack-

age design, or a title for a video production. Using the integrated new 3D Effect, you can transform type and

other shapes you draw into 3D objects, and then rotate them in space and even customize their lighting. 3D

shapes are live, so changes you make to the original 2D object are automatically reected in the 3D shape.

The effect provides an intuitive interface for creating just the look you want, and the Preview option lets you

see changes interactively. For example, you can see how a new 3D element looks in the context of your art-work as you spin it using the track cube, adjust how it is lit, and map artwork onto its surfaces.

Depending on the look you want to achieve, you can extrude, revolve, or rotate shapes. The Extrude option

extends the shape back into space by adding sides and a top, and is ideal for creating cubes, 3D type, and

other regular geometric shapes. When you use the Extrude command, you can also make the edges of the

object appear chiseled by selecting a Bevel option. Beveled edges are widely used for designing buttons and

other types of navigational aids, and can also add an interesting look to 3D type and other objects. The Re-

volve option is perfect for turning a simple path into a 3D shape by revolving it around a central axisideal

for producing bottles, glasses, and other circular shapes. The 3D Rotate option is great for transforming a

shape in 3D space, and also enables you to map artwork onto a shapes surfaces.

The new 3D Effect makes it easy to create 3D type, objects, andmore. Because the effect is live, you can make changes easily atany time without affecting the elements 3D appearance.

Use options in the 3D Effect to transform shapes you draw inIllustrator into 3D artwork. As you work, you can interactivelycontrol the appearance of lighting and other object attributes.

Top 10 New Features inAdobe Illustrator CS

All-new type capabilities, includ-ing character and paragraphstyles and advanced OpenTypefeature support (see page 5)

Enhanced Adobe PDF support,including support for viewinglayers in Adobe Acrobat 6.0(see page 11)

Faster performance in every area(see page 14)

Built-in tools for creating 3Dgraphics quickly (see page 2)

New interface and expandedfunctionality for printing(see page 12)

Save for Microsoft Ofcecommand for easy integration(see page 14)

Template le format for easy re-use of artwork les (see page 10)

More than 200 professionallydesigned templates, more than100 Adobe OpenType fonts, andother content (see page 4)

90-minute digital trainingvideo in the box (see page 10)

Scribble Effect for adding a loose,hand-drawn look to artwork(see page 3)


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Controlling the Surface Appearance and Lighting for 3D Shapes

You can make your 3D artwork look more realistic by adjusting the way it is illuminated and by controlling

its surface characteristics. You can shine as many lights as you like on a 3D object, and you can control the

intensity of each light individually; you can also select a shadow color thats used for all of the lights illumi-

nating an object.

You can also manipulate the surface appearance of the objects you create to create a range of looks. Plastic

Shading is the default option, and provides both Matte and Gloss controls that determine how shiny or soft

the highlights on the object appear. By adjusting these controls and combining them with other illustrativeeffects, you can simulate a wide variety of surfaces. For example, you can create the appearance of a metallic

surface by illuminating a high-contrast gradient ll with dramatic lighting. You can also use Diffuse Shading,

choose the Wireframe option, or create 3D shapes with no shading at all.

Mapping Artwork Onto 3D Shapes

One of the most exciting aspects of the new 3D support in Illustrator CS is the ability to map artwork onto

the surfaces of the 3D shapes you create. For example, you can apply labels to packaging mock-ups so your

clients can visualize how a design will work in context. Any artwork you create in Illustrator can be applied

to the face of a 3D shapeall you need to do is save it as a symbol (a feature introduced in Illustrator 10).

Taking 3D Shapes Further

Once youve created a 3D shape youre pleased with, you can use several other features in Illustrator to take

your work even further. If the look of your 3D shape is something youd like to use again, you can save the

formatting as a graphic style, and then apply it to any other object to quickly recreate the same appearance.

You can also modify the component shapes of the 3D object by choosing Object > Expand Appearance. Or,

you can create eye-catching 3D animations such as the one below by blending two 3D objects, then exporting

the blend as a Macromedia Flash (SWF) le. Because the 3D Effect is fully integrated into Illustrator, you

can combine it with these and other features to create truly eye-catching designs.

To create transparent dice (right), westarted with a simple square that is

partially transparent. Using the 3D Ef-fect, we extruded the square, mappedthe dot pattern for the numbers onto

each face, and adjusted the li ghting.To create the animation of rolling

dice (far right), we blended two in-stances of the artwork, then exported

the results as a Macromedia Flash(SWF) animation.

Scribble Effect

Have fun making vector artwork look loose and hand-drawn with the new live Scribble Effect. Great for add-

ing a child-like charm to artwork, the Scribble Effect is also handy for quickly making formal design elements

look casual and friendly, masking images, creating scratchboard-like illustrations, adding cross-hatching to a

design, or creating animated wiggly lines.

If you blend two shapes that have the Scribble Effect applied, then export them as Macromedia Flash (SWF)

les, you can create jumpy, attention-grabbing animations, such as the example in the sidebar at left. You can

also apply the Scribble Effect to clip art and other objects to quickly add personality.

By blending two objects with theScribble Effect applied, then ex-porting the results as a SWF le, youcan create animated scribbles.


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Professionally designed content in the box

Illustrator CS includes more than 200 real-world, professionally designed templatesincluding 50 Japanese

language templatesthat help you start typical projects quickly. In addition to providing a range of design

ideas, templates include custom-sized artboards, layers, styles, swatches, symbols, and more, so new users can

use them to learn new production techniques. For example, you can choose from ve different CD and DVD

design options, and each option includes separate templates for booklets, disc labels, tray cards, and other

elements. For designers who prefer to start with a blank page, a series of blank templates make starting

typical projects such as business cards a snap. In addition, more than 100 free OpenType fonts (including

Roman, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean fonts) and professional swatch and symbols libraries are included.Accessing free content is easier as well, thanks to the new Welcome screen (see page 10).

Because the effect makes it easy to control how far outside the lines of the original shape the scribble is

drawn, as well as how straight or loopy the line is, you can quickly create interesting irregular shapes to use as

image masks. And like other live effects in Illustrator, you can edit the object the effect is applied to without

having to reapply or modify the effect, save the effect as part of a graphic style, and more.

Applying the Scribble Effect to vectorelements adds interest instantly, and its agreat tool for adding texture to a design.

Templates included with Illustratorprovide a variety of designs for

common projects, such as (startingon the top row from left) a busi-ness card, a DVD disc label, front

and back for a postcard, a Webpage layout, and a gift certicate.


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Use Essential Design ToolsThe industry-standard graphics tool, Adobe Illustrator CS brings a new level of renement to the design

tools at the heart of your work. Because you use them day in and day out on nearly every project you create,

Adobe has re-invented the typography tools in Illustrator CS to be more intuitive, more exible, and more

powerfulso you can use type to communicate your message more effectively. Offering industry-leading

support for OpenType fonts and a powerful new approach to text composition, Illustrator CS helps you

streamline many of the tasks traditionally required to produce exquisite, expressive typography. Other new

type features include support for character and paragraph styles, a WYSIWYG font menu, new text box op-tions, and much more. Illustrator CS can also save documents as templates, so you can re-use your designs

easily. With Illustrator CS, your path from initial inspiration to nished design is more direct than ever.

All-New Type Capabilities

For more than a decade, Adobe Illustrator has set the standard for typographical excellence, and illustrators

and designers who use Illustrator create type treatments of astonishing diversity and quality. Now Adobe

Illustrator CS introduces a redesigned text engine and forward-looking features that make it easier than ever

to set great-looking type. Inspired by innovations in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator CS gives you the power to

take your type to a whole new level. Character and paragraph styles, support for the advanced layout features

built into OpenType fonts, automatic ligatures, optical kerning, and a whole new text composition engine

these are just a few of the new type features youll nd in this release. From superior text composition that

eliminates rivers of white space and bad line breaks in paragraphs to ensuring that ligatures are used and

punctuation is nicely positioned, youll quickly nd that Illustrator CS is indispensable when you need to set

good-looking type.

Paragraph and Character Styles

Format text quickly and easily using the paragraph and character styles in Adobe Illustrator CS. Styles help

you maintain high production standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design uses consistent format-

ting, whether for entire paragraphs or shorter segments, such as run-in heads or words that require particular

emphasis. Styles also save you time because they enable you to apply a rich set of formatting attributes with a

single click of a mouse.

You can dene and work with as many styles as a documents design requires, and styles can include combi-

nations of formatting attributes that range from the simplesay, a font choiceto the elaborate. In addi-

tion to standard formatting options, both paragraph and character styles can include advanced OpenTypeoptions, such as titling, contextual, and swash alternates; ordinals; fractions; and discretionary ligatures. For

example, you might dene a style that automatically reformats number combinations as fractions.

Styles can also help ensure fast, accurate text formatting even when a large project team is working on a series

of documents with interrelated designs. To share paragraph and character styles with colleagues, you simply

make the Illustrator le accessible, so team members can load styles from it as easily as they would load color

swatches. You can also save styles as part of an Illustrator template le; for more information about the new

template le format, please see page 10.

New support for character andparagraph styles helps you make

short work of formatting text-intensive documents.

New type features in Illustrator CS makecreating logotypes and other typetreatments easier than ever.


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OpenType fonts use a single font le for both Macintosh and Windows computers, so you can move les

from one platform to another without worrying about font substitution and other problems that cause text

to reow. A single OpenType font le can also include many more glyphs (a glyph is a visual representation

of a character) than other font formats, including glyphs previously only available in expert sets and char-

acters for non-western languages such as Greek and Cyrillic. Because OpenType fonts dont assume that a

character is represented by only one glyph (as earlier font formats did), programs like Illustrator that provide

advanced OpenType support allow you to substitute one version of a letterform for another. For example, the

lowercase f might appear as the default character, a small cap, with other characters as part of a ligature (a

glyph that combines multiple letters into a single visual form, such as ), or as a swash with fancy ourishes.

In addition to these general benets, Illustrator CS includes special OpenType commands for automatic con-

text-sensitive substitution of alternate glyphs. When you select any of these options, Illustrator automatically

replaces the default glyph for a particular character or combination of characters with any contextually ap-

propriate alternative. For example, if you have the Fractions option selected and type 3/16 in an OpenType

font that supports arbitrary fractions, the numbers will be automatically reformatted as a fraction; if youselect the Swash option and the selected OpenType font includes alternate Swash glyphs, they will be used.

To enable you to use OpenType features in your work right away, Illustrator CS includes more than 100 fonts

from 24 western-language OpenType font families, as well as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean OpenType font

families: Bernhard Modern, Birch, Brush Script, Adobe Caslon Pro, Century Old Style, Charlemagne, Chap-

arral Pro, Courier, Adobe Garamond Pro, Giddyup, Letter Gothic, Lithos Pro, Mesquite, Minion Pro, Myriad

Pro, Myriad, News Gothic, Nueva, Prestige Elite, Rosewood, Stencil, Trajan Pro, Viva, Wood Type Ornaments,

Kozuka Mincho, Kozuka Gothic, Adobe Ming, and Adobe Myungjo.

OpenType Font Support

Adobe Illustrator CS introduces advanced support for OpenType fonts. The OpenType font standard was

developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft, and brings the advantages of both the TrueType and PostScript

font formats into a new format that takes advantage of Unicode character encoding. In addition to expanding

the number of glyphsvisual representations of individual character designsa font can contain from

hundreds to tens of thousands, OpenType fonts offer two primary benets: they make sharing documents

across platforms easier because the same font le is used by Mac OS and Windows, and they enable you to

set distinctive type by providing easy, context-sensitive access to the special characters designed into a font.

The text in the top line uses the standard version of Adobes Minion font.Adobe Minion Pro (one of the OpenType fonts included with Illustra-tor CS) offers richer results. Illustrator CS automatically uses standardligatures (ff and f in this example). Discretionary Ligatures and Swashoptions were selected from the OpenType palette, so the st ligature andswash version of the lowercase e are automatically inserted.

The top example uses the default gure glyphs forAdobes Warnock Pro font (an OpenType font avail-able from Adobe). In the bottom example, OpenTypeoptions for Proportional Oldstyle gures and Swashcharacters were selected. The results are visuallydistinctive, typographically correct, and required noextra time or effort.

The Adobe OpenType font Caisch Script Pro includes a rich selectionof contextual alternates. The top example uses default glyphs; in thebottom example, the Contextual Alternates option was selected, so al-ternate glyphs and ligatures are automatically used when appropriate.

In Illustrator CS, you can choose tohave standard numbers (left) auto-matically reformatted as fractions(right) when working with OpenTypefonts that support arbitrary fractions.

Access OpenType features from the newOpenType palette.

More about OpenType fonts

The OpenType format is an exten-sion of the TrueType SFNT formatthat also can support AdobePostScript font data and newtypographic features.

OpenType fonts can include anexpanded character set and layoutfeatures, providing broader lin-guistic support and more precisetypographic control. Feature-richAdobe OpenType fonts can bedistinguished by the word Pro,which is part of the font name andappears in application font menus.

OpenType fonts can be installedand used alongside PostScriptType 1 and TrueType fonts.

The Adobe Type Library is nowavailable in OpenType format. Toview or buy these fonts, please visitwww.adobe.com/type.


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Automatic Ligatures and Smart Quotes

Illustrator CS automatically sets standard ligatures, such as and , as you type using any OpenType font

a small detail that can make a big difference in making your type appear professional. To help streamline

production processes, Illustrator spell-checks and hyphenates words that use these ligatures just as it would

standard letterforms. For example, the word wafe would use the f glyph, but would still be spell-checked

as though it used individual letters. Illustrator CS also sets typographically correct quotation marks and

apostrophes as you type.

Easy Access to Alternate Glyphs

The new Glyphs palette in Illustrator CS offers a fast, accessible way to see all of the glyphs in a font. The Show

option on the palette lets you see the entire font or select subsets of related characters, such as Ornaments,

Terminal Forms, Discretionary Ligatures, and more. Simply double-clicking inserts the selected glyph. Previ-

ously, you could access these special characters only by memorizing keyboard shortcuts or manually formatting

individual characters using a separate expert version of a font that included the character you wanted.

Columns and Rows and Other Area-Text Enhancements

Quickly produce multi-column designs by dening columns and rows in any text area. Specify the number of

columns and rows, the width and height of those rows and columns, whether or not theyre a xed size, and

the size of the gutter. You can also determine the size of the inset between the text and the object containing

it, how the baseline is set, and whether text ows between linked objects from right to left or left to right.

Optical Kerning and Optical Margin Alignment

With many fonts, the default spacing between characters is visually uneven or crowded, even when the kern-

ing pairs built into the font are used. Designers have long used manual kerning to adjust the space between

awkward-looking pairs of letters, but the process is time-consuming. To help balance your desire for quality

against your drive to meet schedules, Illustrator CS introduces two features that automate kerning:

Optical kerningThe new optical kerning option in the Character palette automatically kerns text to

produce optimal spacing. When applied to a word, line, or paragraph, Illustrator analyzes the visual charac-

teristics of text and automatically determines the ideal spacing for the characterseven when that text

mixes different fonts and font sizes. Kerning is cumulative, so you can always adjust optically kerned text

to suit your eye.

The text on top uses the defaultspacing between letters, and certainletter combinations look awkward.Applying the optical kerning optionfrom the Character palette (bottom)instantly ne-tunes the visual rela-tionships between pairs of letters.

Use the Glyphs palette to insert alternateglyphs. You can browse all of the glyphsavailable, or choose a subset by selectingoptions from the Show menu. A small arrowin the lower-right corner of a character indi-cates that alternate glyphs are available.


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Shifting punctuation marks slightlyoutside the edge of the text area cre-ates a more even-looking edge. Theexample on the left uses Optical Margin

Alignment, and punctuation marks suchas the opening quote and the hyphenson the rst two lines extend slightlybeyond the text area to allow the lettersto form a more even line. In contrast, thepunctuation in the example on the rightis visually distracting, and creates anirregular edge.

Every-line Composer for Optimized Paragraph Composition

The new Every-line Composer in Adobe Illustrator CS gives you the ability to produce exquisitely typeset

text without ne-tuning line breaks by hand. The main goal in setting longer runs of textin brochures,

packaging, and other materials you create with Illustratoris to produce the most elegant line breaks you

can with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting rivers of white space

owing from line to line. The Every-line Composer, a unique Adobe composition engine used in Adobe

InDesign and Adobe Photoshop, examines all of the text in an area to determine the best combination of

line breaks across the entire run. Because it can optimize earlier lines to avoid unattractive breaks later ona

capability unique to Adobes professional graphics applicationsthe Every-line Composer automatically

produces text with even spacing, consistent line lengths, minimal hyphenation, and few if any visible rivers.

Illustrator CS also includes the Single-line Composer, which applies hyphenation and justication settings to

one line of text at a time, just as Illustrator did in the past. Both the Every-line Composer and the Single-line

Composer are commands on the Paragraph palette popup menu.

Custom Tab LeadersWith Illustrator CS, you can customize the dot type and pattern for tab leaders, or you can design your own

graphics to use as tab leaders. In addition, Illustrator now lets you set unlimited numbers of tabs.

Single-line ComposerEvery-line Composer

The Adobe Every-line Composer(left) produces even-looking text

that is pleasing to the eye andeasy to read. Because it composestext one line at a time, the Single-

line Composer (right) results inchoppy line lengths, especially in

narrow columns.

Notice also that the use of OpticalMargin Alignment (left example

only) and OpenType features(both examples) create a

polished look in keeping withthe authors sophisticated wit.

Optical Margin AlignmentThis option automatically adjusts the position of punctuation and text charac-

ters at either end of a line to make the edges of a text block look more visually even. You use Optical Margin

Alignment most often to hang punctuation, such as quotation marks and hyphens, but other characters are

subtly shifted as well in order to produce typographically good-looking results.


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WYSIWYG Font Menu

The Font menu in Adobe Illustrator CS displays each font face you have installed, so you can choose the fonts

you want to use visually. Experimenting with different faces is now faster and more direct, and you can see

at a glance what format a font uses (for example, the green and blackO indicates an OpenType font). If you

prefer, you can also disable this option.

Expanded Support for Japanese Typography

Adobe Illustrator is the standard for design in most countries, and support for le sharing between different

language versions has long made it possible to share designs globally. Adobe Illustrator CS expands this sup-port with more sophisticated controls for formatting Japanese text. This includes customizable mojikumi rule

sets for determining optimal character spacing, as well as editable kinsoku shori rule sets for handling Japanese

punctuation, characters that cannot begin or end lines, and characters that cant be separated. Illustrator also

includes other enhancements, such as automated tate-chu-yoko controls, a composite font editor, an IME edi-

tor for entering Japanese text, and a preference for hiding or showing Japanese text options in Roman versions

of Illustrator.

New Path Type Options

Illustrator CS expands your options for designing text on a path. The new Path Type submenu on the Type

menu provides ve pre-set alignment options, and the Path Text Options dialog box includes additional op-

tions for controlling the position of the text relative to the path. Now you can create a wider range of looks

for projects that use path text with a minimum of effort.

Path type is now more exible, thanks to new built-in formatting options. You can also controlcharacter alignment with precision using options in t he Path Type Options dialog box. Here, weused the Rainbow (top), Skew (middle) and Stair Step (bottom) opti ons.

Additional Type-Related Enhancements

Adobe Illustrator CS includes a number of enhancements that add polish to the type you set while

streamlining your work.

Onscreen highlighting of missing fontsIllustrator CS automatically highlights fonts that are used in a

document but are not available on a computer system, so you can identify and x problems easily. Then

use the Find Font command (available in previous versions of Illustrator) to replace the missing fonts with

installed ones or identify the missing fonts so you can install them.

Enhanced hyphenation and justication controlsIllustrator CS provides signicantly enhanced hyphen-

ation and justication controls. Control how long a word must be before Illustrator hyphenates it, whether

Illustrator hyphenates capitalized words, and whether it favors better word and character spacing or fewer

hyphens. New justication controls allow you to set minimum, maximum, and desired settings for word

spacing, letter spacing, glyph scaling, and more.

Expanded language supportSpell-check and hyphenate the text in your Illustrator documents in 29

languages, from U.S. and U.K. English, French, and German to Icelandic, Polish, Serbian, and Turkish.

Improved text linking and deletionText linking is now more exible: any text area, including path text,

can be linked to any other text area, so its possible to ow text from one area, onto a path, and then into a

second area. Plus, you can now delete a linked text block without also deleting any text it containsthe text

now ows back into the previous box. Illustrator also now reduces clutter in your documents by automati-

cally deleting empty text blocks that are created by clicking a type tool and not entering text.

Warning about text reowOpen documents created in older versions of Illustrator with condence: you

can choose to have the text in legacy documents remain just as it was designed until you click an insertion

point to edit it, or you can choose to update all type objects when you open the le with Illustrator CS.

Looking for more informationabout text features in AdobeIllustrator CS?

For detailed information, includ-ing a white paper about changesto the text engine in Illustrator,visit www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/indepth.html.


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Save Files as Templates

Illustrator CS now includes a template le format, which makes it easy to use completed designs as the basis

for new projects. Templates are especially handy for projects where specic content changes but the overall

design remains largely the same. For example, you can create templates that contain artboard dimensions,

swatches, character and paragraph styles, symbols, guides, and other elements that are used in all of a par-

ticular clients collateral or advertising. When youre basing new versions of a design on an existing project,

using a template prevents the original le from being overwritten by opening a new, untitled document.

Customer-Driven Enhancements

Input from customers has helped Adobe make many improvements to the features you rely on. Other

enhancements are designed to make Illustrator more intuitive, so new users can get up to speed more

quickly. Heres an overview of some of the user interface enhancements in this release:

Learn about Illustrator and how to make the most of key features: Watch a 90-minute Total Training video by

expert author and trainer Deke McClelland that is included on a CD in the box.

Learn about new features in Illustrator CS and access tutorials and other free content by choosing options

from the Welcome to Adobe Illustrator CS screen that appears when you rst launch the program.

Take advantage of richer support for the SVG le format: Illustrator now supports the use of SVG primitives,

expanding your options for manipulating objects in the SVG les you import and export.

Print and export linked EPS and Adobe PDF les that interact with transparencyincluding duotones

without embedding them.

Open and save Style, Swatch, Brush, and Symbol libraries right from their respective palettes by choosing theOpen Library and Save Library commands from the palette menus.

Use a lock button on the Transform palette to scale objects proportionally.

Specify a sample size in pixels for the Eyedropper tool.

Choose a custom scale size for DXF and DWG les on import.

Optimize and export WBMP graphics for use on wireless devices.

Automate more tasks with Scripting enhancements, including the ability to automate all new featuressuch

as the new Printing interfacewith expanded scripting support.


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Work EfcientlyAdobe Illustrator CS is a versatile tool that enables you to take the graphics you produce virtually anywhere.

Presenting a consistent visual identity across different mediumsprint, the Web, broadcast, and even cell phone

displaysis one of the most effective ways for companies to build recognizable brands. Because each medium

has unique production requirements, Illustrator provides a comprehensive set of options that make repurpos-

ing a design easy, no matter what medium you need to deliver it for. Tight integration with other Adobe prod-

ucts makes moving rich content from Illustrator into other authoring tools, such as Adobe InDesign or Adobe

GoLive

, easy. Enhanced Adobe PDF support provides better integration with Adobe Acrobat

6.0 as well ascompatibility with the new Adobe PDF 1.5 language specication. A new printing interfacesimilar to the one

in InDesignensures fast, reliable results every time you print. Faster performance means Illustrator can keep

pace with the ow of your ideas, so you can sustain your creative momentum. New integration with Microsoft

Ofce means your graphics look great whether theyre used in a PowerPoint presentation, a Word report, or an

Excel spreadsheet. You can also depend on import and export support for a wide variety of le formats, as well

as tight integration with leading Adobe products and Macromedia Flash.

Enhanced Adobe PDF Support

Adobe Illustrator has used Adobe PDF as its native le format for several versions, making it easy for you,

your clients, and others to open and view your artwork les in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader.

Now Illustrator CS introduces new support for Adobe PDF, including compatibility with Acrobat 6.0 and

the Adobe PDF 1.5 format, extensive security options, and support for layers, printers marks, and bleeds in

Adobe PDF les. In addition, you can apply transparency attener styles as you save Adobe PDF les and

save Adobe PDF settings as presets to streamline Adobe PDF creation.

Here is a brief look at the new options available when you save your artwork as Adobe PDF les:

Compatibility Choose whether to make your Adobe PDF le compatible with Acrobat 4.0, Acrobat 5.0, or

the latest version, Acrobat 6.0. Saving les as Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5) les offers optimal exibility, unless you

plan to incorporate the Adobe PDF le into an application that only supports older Adobe PDF versions.

Time-saving Adobe PDF presets Save Adobe PDF settings as Adobe PDF presets to streamline production

and ensure consistency. Illustrator includes three Adobe PDF Presets: Illustrator PDF for optimal preservation

of transparency when exporting Adobe PDF les for use in other applications, Press PDF for automatically at-

tening transparent elements for high-end print production, and Acrobat 6 Layered PDF for quickly exportingtop-level layers in Illustrator les to the Adobe PDF 1.5 le format for further manipulation in Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

Improved consistency with transparency attener presets Because the Adobe PDF le format cannot

process transparency natively, Illustrator CS provides enhanced controls for attening transparent artwork as

you save Adobe PDF les, so you can make trade-offs between quality and speed of output. You can now save

transparency attener settings as presets to save time and ensure consistency. Illustrator CS includes three

transparency attener presets for low-, medium-, and high-resolution output, and you can easily create your

own as well. In addition, you can choose to use the attener settings you specied for your document in the

Document Setup dialog box.


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Flexible Adobe PDF layer support Save layered Illustrator CS les as layered Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5) les, so others

can display optional content, such as alternative designs or multilingual text, when viewing the le in Acrobat 6.0.

CompressionUse the same compression options available in Adobe Acrobat Distiller, including the new

Adobe PDF 1.5 format and the new industry-wide compression standard, JPEG 2000.

Printers marks and bleedsInclude printers marks and bleeds in Adobe PDF les for proong and to sup-

port Adobe PDF-based print production workows.

SecuritySpecify a range of security options for import and export of Adobe PDF les, such as password-

protection, encryption method (40-bit or 128-bit), and whether printing, content copying and extraction,and other changes are allowed.

Expanded viewing optionsChoose to automatically view the Adobe PDF le in Acrobat or Adobe Reader

after Illustrator saves it. Also, choose whether to optimize Adobe PDF les for faster Web viewing.

SummaryCheck a list of all of the Adobe PDF settings youve specied before saving the nal le.

Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop

Move layered les between Photoshop and Illustrator more easily. Text editability has been improved because

the two programs now share the same underlying text composition technology. Plus, multiple spot channels

can be imported and 16-bit color data can be converted to 8-bit on import, so you no longer have to keep

two versions of your original le. Also, you can link Photoshop duotone and tritone PDF images and print

them accurately from Illustrator.

Expanded Print Capabilities

One of the top priorities for Adobe Illustrator CS was to rene the printing experience and make Illustrator

print jobs more efcient and reliable to output, whether to a desktop printer or a high-end print production

device. To achieve this, Illustrator CS introduces a streamlined user interface and next-generation support

for fast and reliable printing, so you can easily produce consistent results every time you print. This section

describes how the revised print interface improves the printing process, and details how a variety of new or

enhanced optionsfrom print presets to printers markscan help you output your artwork more reliably.

Use new Print Styles to save

time and ensure consistencyat output.

Preview how selected print op-tions interact with your artwork

as you select options on differentpanels in the Print dialog b ox.

Select tiling options rightin the Print dialog box.

Use new Scaling options tot oversized artwork onto asingle sheet of paper.

Use the consolidatedPrint dialog box to selectall print-related options.


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Here is a brief look at the new options available when printing from Illustrator CS:

Streamlined user interface Illustrator CS eliminates the Page Setup and Separations Setup dialog boxes, and

consolidates their functionality in the comprehensive new Print dialog box. You can now specify all print set-

tings in the Print dialog box, from tiling and custom page sizes to printers marks, color management output

proles, and transparency attener settings. This new, more unied interface makes it easier to specify print-

ing options quickly and accurately to achieve the results you want.

Interactive print preview Illustrator CS now offers visual feedback in the Print dialog box. The new Print

Preview displays a thumbnail view of your artwork, and offers detailed visual information about how yourcurrent print settings will interact with your selected media. This thumbnail view is always visible, no matter

which panel is selected in the Print dialog box.

Convenient scaling options With Illustrator CS, its easy to print oversized artwork on standard paper sizes.

The new Fit to Page option automatically scales your artwork to the paper size while maintaining the proper

aspect ratio. With the Custom Scale option, you can specify the percentage Illustrator scales the artwork, as

well as whether the width and height are scaled in proportion to each other or scaled separately.

Intuitive tiling controls Tiling controls in Illustrator CS now appear within the unied Print dialog box,

so its easier and more intuitive to print large designs on multiple pieces of paper. You specify whether

Illustrator prints a single full page, tiles full pages, or tiles imageable areas. You also control the placement

of the artwork on the tiled pages by clicking a point on the Placement icon or specifying a value for Origin

X and Origin Y (which are calculated in relation to the upper-left corner of the artwork). You can also still

dene page tile settings on the artboard using the page tool.

Time-saving print presets With Illustrator CS, you can save print settings as print presets to save time, elim-

inate mistakes, and automate common printing tasks. For example, you could save print presets for each of

your proof printers to quickly set the options you typically use. Print presets youve saved or imported appear

on the Printer Presets submenu in the General panel of the new Print dialog box. Choose File > Print Presets

to dene new presets, or save print presets on the y in the Print dialog box.

Improved consistency with transparency attener presets Because most printing devices and the EPS le

format cannot process transparency natively, Illustrator CS provides enhanced controls for attening trans-

parent artwork as you print or export it, so you can make trade-offs between quality and speed of output.

You can now save transparency attener settings as presets to save time and ensure consistency. Illustrator CS

includes three transparency attener presets for low-, medium-, and high-resolution output, and you can

easily create your own as well. In addition, you can choose to use the attener settings you specied for yourdocument in the Document Setup dialog box.

More exible printers marks In the past, Illustrator treated printers marks as a unityou either printed

them or you didnt. Now, you can print whatever combination of trim, registration, color bar, and page infor-

mation marks you want. In addition, you can specify the weight of the trim marks, the offset distance from

the artwork, and whether you use Roman or Japanese printers marks.

Independent bleed settings Illustrator CS expands your choices in specifying bleed settings as well: You can

set the bleed area to a uniform distance along all four sides of the artboard, or you can specify different bleed

amounts for each edge.

New separation options In addition to support for printing host-based separations, Illustrator CS now

supports in-RIP separations, so you can output jobs more quickly when printing to PostScript RIPs (Adobe

PostScript 3 RIPs, some Adobe PostScript Level 2 RIPs, and some LanguageLevel3 RIPs) that support thisfeature. In-RIP separations print more quickly because only one PostScript lerather then four or more

is sent to the RIP. This workow is also optimized for additional in-RIP processing, such as trapping and

imposition. You can also customize printer output without the use of an EPSF Rider le, which makes con-

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Finer control when printing layers With Illustrator CS, you can print either composite output or separations(both host-based and in-RIP) of all layers, visible layers, or all visible, printable layers. Plus, you can print

only selected objects as either composite output or separations. This enhanced capability makes it easier to

proof or print comps of individual parts of complex artwork. (Note: Specify whether layers are visible and

printable in the Layers palette.)

Faster performance

Adobe Illustrator is faster across the board, so you can work more quickly. From copying and pasting to

scrolling around the artboard, printing, and saving les, you can pursue your ideas in a more interactive

environment.

Tighter integration with Microsoft Ofce

When you need to move artwork from Illustrator into a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, or an Excel

spreadsheet, the new Save For Microsoft Ofce command saves your graphics in a format that gives you great-looking results every time. Whether youre working on a Windows or Mac OS system, this new option saves you

time by ensuring your artwork displays and prints beautifully when viewed in Microsoft Ofce documents.


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Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) Support

Metadata is increasingly important in all types of publishing: when metadata is embedded in a le, publishing

that le across print, the Web, eBooks, and other media can be automated more easily. Developed by Adobe,

the XMP is an open XML framework that standardizes the creation, processing, and interchange of metadata

across publishing workows. Adobe Illustrator CS adds support for XMP.

By adding metadata in XMP, for example, keywords you add to your les can be indexed by Internet search

engines, making your images more easily accessible online. Because the XMP standard is also supported by

other components of the Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop CS, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and AdobeInDesign CS, the metadata information you enter in your Illustrator les can be maintained wherever you

take the le.

Metadata in XMP format can now be saved in EPS les as well as in AI, Adobe PDF, and SVG les. Using

the File Info panels, you and others in your workgroup can enter data pertinent to a project, including

information used by newspapers and other publishing companies including support for International Press

Telecommunications Council (IPTC) schema. Illustrator CS also supports the ability to create custom File

Info panels to better support your groups specic workows. A new preference that requires you to enter

key data about a le the rst time you save a le streamlines the data-entry process and ensures that essential

data is included for managed workows. For more information about Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP),

go to www.adobe.com/products/xmp/main.html.

Availability and pricingIn the United States and Canada, Adobe Illustrator CS for Macintosh and Windows is expected to ship in the

fourth quarter of 2003.

The estimated street price for Adobe Illustrator is $499 (U.S.) for all platforms. Registered users of any

version of Adobe Illustrator can upgrade to Illustrator CS for only $169 (U.S.). Users of CorelDraw and

Macromedia FreeHand can also purchase Adobe Illustrator CS for only $349 (U.S.).

French and German versions of Adobe Illustrator CS are also expected to ship in the fourth quarter of 2003.

Information about these and other language versions, as well as all pricing, upgrade, and support policies for

other countries, will be announced separately.

Adobe Illustrator CS is a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. The Adobe Creative Suite combines full, new ver-

sions of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive

CS, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional with the innovative new Version Cue le version manager, which lets

you easily track iterations and quickly locate les. The Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design solution that

gives todays creative professionals everything they need to create and publish content to print and the Web

faster, more easily, and more affordably than ever.

Estimated Street Price $1299 (U.S.) Creative Suite Premium Edition, $999 (U.S.) Creative Suite Standard

edition. Estimated Street Price for Upgrades to Premium Edition $749 (U.S.) from Adobe Photoshop or from

the Adobe Web, Design, Publishing, or Video Collection. Estimated Street Price for Upgrades to Standard

Edition $549 (U.S.) from Adobe Photoshop or from the Adobe Web, Design, Publishing, or Digital Collection

About Adobe SystemsFounded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com), the leader in network publishing, offers

a comprehensive line of software for enterprise and creative professional customers. Its products enable cus-

tomers to create, manage and deliver visually rich, compelling and reliable content. Based in San Jose, Calif.,

Adobe is one of the worlds largest software companies.

System Requirements*

Macintosh

PowerPC G3, G4, G4 dual proces-sor, or G5

Mac OS software 10.2.4 (version10.2.7 recommended)

192 MB of RAM installed (256 MBof RAM recommended)

470 MB of available hard-diskspace for installation

If using Adobe PostScript print-

ers: Adobe PostScript Level 2 orAdobe PostScript 3

Windows

Intel Pentium III or 4 processor Microsoft Windows 2000 with

service pack 3 or Windows XP 192 MB of RAM installed (256 MB

of RAM recommended) 470 MB of available hard-disk

space If using Adobe PostScript print-

ers: Adobe PostScript Level 2 orAdobe PostScript 3

* System requirements are subjectto change prior to the productshipping

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