Overview

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that invite you to explore more efficient ways to design.

Features

• Sophisticated vector drawing controls
• Sketch naturally using the Blob Brush tool that turns strokes into a single filled object. Advanced path controls, graphic styles, and appearance editing enable intuitive vector drawing.
• Integration with Adobe design applications
• Share files smoothly with other Adobe professional design applications, collaborate with colleagues, and work easily among multiple tools for different media.
• 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.
• Multiple artboards
• Create files containing up to 100 artboards of varying sizes and display them any way you want — overlapping, side by side, or stacked. Save, export, and print artboards independently or together. Save a selected range or all artboards as a multipage PDF file.
• Live Color
• Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color to interactively edit or replace colors. Use the Color Guide panel to quickly choose tints, shades, or harmonious combinations.
• Live Trace
• Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.
• Live Paint
• Easily paint closed or partially closed objects with the Live Paint Bucket, which automatically detects and corrects gaps. Interactively select colors from the Swatches panel for faster work.
• Adobe PDF file creation tools
• Create protected, graphic-rich PDF files with Adobe® Illustrator® layers retained, multiple pages, color space and transparency handling, and ultimate prepress control, including printer's marks and bleeds.
• 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 control display for faster rendering.
• Gradients and transparency
• Edit gradients directly on your object. Rotate them, add and adjust colors, and create elliptical gradients. You can even define the transparency of individual color stops in a gradient.

System Requirements

• PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services

Supported Languages

• English
• Chinese
• Danish
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Swedish