Adobe Illustrator CS5 for Mac

Specialists in design around the globe choose Adobe Illustrator CS5 for its unique accuracy and functionality of enhanced tools for drawing, expressive and bright brushes, large set of other handy tools and also integration with online services Adobe CS Live that helps to save time and better understand all possibilities of program.

Top features of Adobe Illustrator CS5

Sophisticated vector drawing controls - Create distinctive designs with definite shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes and enhanced path controls. These advanced drawing capabilities provide practically infinite possibilities for creating unique and striking artwork.

Advanced typography - Simple type creation and professional control with more than 80 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underlining and strikethroughs, transparent effects and etc.

Gradients and transparency - Interact with gradients right on your object, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colours and adjusting opacity. Control the transparency of individual colours in a gradient.

In-panel appearance editing - Edit object characteristics right in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to go through multiple panels. Work with shared attributes and toggle individual attribute display for faster rendering.

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.

New and enhanced for 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 at corners.

Bristle Brush - Paint with vectors that replicate real brush strokes. Control bristle characteristics and paint opacity. Define all possible characteristics of bristle. 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 - Up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file, organised 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 - Combine, edit and fill shapes right on your artboard. Drag cursor across overlapping shapes and paths to create unique objects and add colour 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 ruler origins at the upper left, and scale symbols with 9-slice control.

Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 - Take Illustrator designs into Adobe Flash Catalyst software and create interactive experiences without writing code. Roundtrip editing allows you to perfect your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity 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 in the knowledge that raster effects will look the same no matter how your resolution settings change.

Integration with Adobe CS Review - Create and share online reviews for clients and colleagues down the hall or around the world with Adobe CS Review--a brand new CS Live online service. Publish your review to the web and see comments in Illustrator so you can track feedback on specific design elements.

System requirements:

• Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
• 1GB of RAM
• 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 removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card