Adobe Illustrator CS4 (Mac) Upgrade

Adobe Creative Suite 4 products and components are compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the latest version of Apple's operating system.

This upgrade version of Adobe Illustrator CS4 will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Illustrator CS3, Illustrator CS2, or Illustrator CS.

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. Design quickly and confidently with new Adobe Illustrator CS4 software, and deliver easily across media. New multiple artboards, a Blob Brush tool, and transparency in gradients invite you to explore more efficient ways of working.

KEY 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.

• 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.

NEW FEATURES:

• Transparency in gradients
  Create a gradient of many colors and define the opacity of any or all individual colors assigned to your color stops. Transparency within a gradient simplifies creating interaction between layers and enables easy mixing and knockouts. Use transparency to create cover-up fades or to reveal underlying objects or images. For example, make a rainbow gradient on one object, and then simply set the blue gradient slider or color stop to 0% opacity level to show what's underneath.

• Blob Brush tool
  The Blob Brush tool generates a clean, filled, vector shape while you sketch, even when strokes overlap, merging your paths naturally into a single object that's easily selected and edited. Draw naturally, using the Blob Brush tool together with the Eraser and Smooth tools. Now, when you draw, you don't get the typical jumble of paths, you get an outlined and filled shape--no expansion or Pathfinder tools required.

• Gradients exposed
  Interact with gradients right on your object. Set gradient angle, position, and elliptical dimensions. Add and edit colors using sliders -all with immediate feedback where you work. Radial gradients are enhanced with the new ability to set dimensions independently, to create an elliptical gradient of any proportion.

• Integration and delivery
  Collaborate with your team, work across products, and deliver almost anywhere thanks to integrated tools and extensive format support. Confidently design for print, interactive experiences, motion effects, and more.

• Enhanced user experience
  Stay in the creative groove thanks to interface improvements that include on-object controls. Interact with tools smoothly, and increase your efficiency using new timesaving features and shortcuts.

• Refined graphic styles
  Combine styles for unique effects and increased efficiency, and apply styles without disturbing an object's existing appearance. The Graphic Styles panel provides new functionality that includes an option to preview all your styles on the seleted object or group of objects. It's now easy to choose a style without having to actually apply it. Enjoy new expanded library of prebuilt styles. New libraries include sets of effects such as pre-set blurs and drop shadows that you can add without affecting fills.

• Clipping masks demystified
  Work with masks more easily by viewing only the clipped area of your objects during editing. Take advantage of Isolation Mode, and use Edit Clipping Path for even more control.

• Separations Preview
  Avoid color output surprises such as unexpected spot colors, unwanted overprinting, overprints that don't overprint, white overprinting, and CMYK blacks in text and placed files. The Separations Preview panel displays a list of spot and process colors; you can choose to display individual colors for previewing color separations onscreen. Illustrator CS4 continues the tradition of improving print support so you can deliver artwork that prints more reliably than ever.

Adobe Illustrator CS4: All Features List

Adobe Illustrator CS4: System Requirements and Languages

Windows:

• 2GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Macintosh:

• 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)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

*This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees.

Activation
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Adobe Illustrator CS4: System Requirements and Languages

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.