New! Features
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Adobe Illustrator CS5 means superior results faster, with new features and enhancements that help you create and manage your images more easily and efficiently. The indispensable new and improved features help graphic web designers, photographers, and video professionals create the highest quality images, with the control, flexibility, and capabilities that you expect from the professional standards in desktop digital imaging.
Each new release of Illustrator brings with it new features, improvements, and added sophistication. This edition is aimed at the Web designer, interactive media professional, or subject matter expert developing multimedia content, and the application developer.
Only New Features
If you’re already familiar with Illustrator CS4, you can access and download all the tasks in this book with Adobe Illustrator CS5 New Features to help make your transition to the new version simple and smooth. The Illustrator CS5 New Features as well as other Illustrator CS4 to Illustrator CS5 transition helpers are available on the Web at www.perspection.com.
What’s New
If you’re searching for what’s new in Illustrator CS5, just look for the icon: New!. The new icon appears in the table of contents and throughout this book, so you can quickly and easily identify a new or improved feature in Illustrator CS5. The following is a brief description of each new feature and its location in this book.
Illustrator CS5
• CS Live (p. 4, 13, 436, 450-451) Adobe CS Live is an online service that allows you to set up or manage an Adobe account, and access an Adobe Web site with CS Live online services. You can access these options directly from the CS Live menu on the right side of the menu bar next to the Search bar.
• Status bar (p. 17) You can display the current artboard name on the Status bar along with the current tool, date and time, and the number of undos.
• Adobe Updater (p. 20-21) The Adobe Updater Preferences dialog box allows you to set update options for Illustrator and other installed Adobe products, such as Bridge. You can also set an option to have Adobe notify you of updates in the menu bar.
• Adobe Community Help (p. 22-23) When you start Illustrator Help, the Adobe Community Help window opens, displaying help categories and topics. You can search product help from Local Help, Community Help, or Adobe.com by using keywords or phrases or browsing through a list of categories and topics to locate specific information.
• Save Artboards (p. 24) You can save multiple artboards in separate files by using the Save As dialog box.
• Adobe Flash Catalyst (p. 29) Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 is a stand-alone professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code.
• Pixel Aligned Artwork (p. 28, 52, 65, 328) Pixel aligned vector objects allow you to create precisely drawn images that look crisp and sharp for use on different outputs, such as the Web and mobile devices. The Align to Pixel Grid option enables the vertical and horizontal segments of the paths of an object to be nudged and aligned to the pixel grid. You can show the pixel grid above 600% zoom. When you create a symbol, you can also enable the object to align to the pixel grid.
• Multiple Artboards and Artboards Panel (p. 34-37) You can create multiple artboards by using the New dialog box, the Artboard tools in the Tools panel, or the Artboards panel. You can specify custom names for artboards, rearrange the artboard layout, reorder artboards, and duplicate artboards. The Object menu includes an Artboard submenu that you can use to convert objects (non-rotated ones that are not clipping masks) to artboards, rearrange artboards, resize the artboard to the artwork bounds, and resize the artboard to the select objects.
• Artboard Ruler Origin (p. 46-47) The origin is oriented from the upper left-corner and changes based on the active artboard.
• Rulers (p. 46-47) Illustrator displays rulers for documents (known as global) and artboards at the top and left side of the document window; you can only show and use one at a time. If you want to show a ruler around an individual artboard, you can display the video ruler (which is the same as the Artboard ruler in Illustrator CS4).
• Snap Symbol Instances (p. 50, 308) In normal mode, you can snap the contents of a symbols instance (not to the bounding box like previous versions). Symbols instances now behave like groups for snapping.
• Editable Crop Marks (p. 54-55) You can create crop marks as noneditable live effects or editable ones you can adjust and format. For editable crop marks, you can delete them by using the crop marks with the Selection tool and pressing the Delete key.
• Draw Behind and Inside (p. 64) In Illustrator, you can draw on top of an object, behind an object, or inside an object using one of the following drawing modes: Draw Normal, Draw Behind, or Draw Inside. The Draw Behind mode allows you to draw behind all objects on a selected layer (no other objects selected). The Draw Inside mode allows you to draw inside a single selected object, which automatically creates a clipping mask from the select object.
• Shape Builder Tool (p. 74-75) The Shape Builder tool allows you to create complex objects by merging and erasing simpler objects. The Shape Builder tool selects edges and regions of an object, which can be merged or erased to form a new object.
• Perspective Drawing (p. 76-79) The Perspective Grid tool allows you to display a perspective grid that you can use to draw shapes and create scenes with 1, 2, or 3-point perspective. The Perspective Selection tool allows you to select, move, scale, copy, and transform objects in perspective. You can also add normal objects, text, and symbols to the perspective grid. If you create your own perspective grid, you save it as a preset for use later.
• Select Behind (p. 80, 422) If an object is behind another object, you can use the keyboard shortcut 
+click (Mac) or Ctrl+click (Win) to select it. To use this option, you need to select the Control Click To Select Objects Behind check box in Selection & Anchor Display preferences.
• Paste in Place or Paste on All Artboards (p. 92) When you copy objects to the Clipboard, you can paste them on an artboard several different ways: Paste, Paste in Front, Paste in Back, Paste in Place, or Paste on All Artboards.
• Dashed Strokes and Arrowheads (p. 132-133) When you create a dashed stroke, you can choose to align the dashes around corners and at the end of open paths or preserve the dashes and gaps in the stroke. In addition to dashes, you can also add and define an arrowhead to a stroke. After you add an arrowhead to a stroke, you can adjust its alignment and scale.
• Variable Stroke Width (p. 134-135) The Width tool allows you to create a variable width stroke and save your settings as a profile that you can apply to other strokes. When you point to a stroke with the Width tool, a small circle appears on the path, where you can drag to create a variable width.
• Gradient Mesh Opacity (p. 152-153) You can set color and opacity (transparency) for a gradient mesh.
• Path Join (p. 164-165) If you want Illustrator to join the closes end points for two paths, you can select the paths with the Selection tool, and then use the Join command.
• Anti-alias Type (p. 236, 376-377) You apply anti-aliasing to text boxes instead of individual characters. The anti-aliasing settings are saved along with the document and supported for PDF, AIT, and EPS formats. When you export text to BMP, PNG, Targa, JPEG, or TIFF formats, you can set the following anti-aliasing options: None, Art Optimized, or Type Optimized. These options are also available in the Save For Web dialog box.
• Resolution Independent Effects (p. 259, 266-267) Illustrator uses Resolution Independent Effects (RIE) to maintain a consistent appearance across different types of output, such as print, Web, or video. When you change the resolution setting in the Document Raster Effects Settings dialog box, Illustrator interprets the raster resolution effect on the image and modifies related parameter values (as minimal as possible) in the Effect Gallery dialog box to maintain consistency.
• Stretch and Corner Control for Brushes (p. 298-301) Art brushes create artistic strokes when painting. When you use an Art brush, it stretches a brush shape or object shape evenly along the center of a path. You can use the Art Brush Options dialog box to set options for Scale, Stretch and Corner Overlap. You can also set the scale option for pattern brushes.
• Bristle Brush (p. 302-303) Bristle brushes simulate the effects of painting with a natural brush, such as watercolors and oils. When you use a bristle brush, it paints with vectors to resemble a natural brush stroke.
• Create Sublayers (p. 313) In symbol editing mode, you can create sublayers and use Paste Remember Layers on the Options menu on the Layers panel.
• Reset Transformation to Symbols (p. 326) You can reset any transformation to symbols. Select the symbol, and then click the Reset button on the Control panel or click the Options menu in the Symbols panel, and then click Reset Transformation.
• 9-Slice Scaling (p. 326-327) 9-slice scaling allows you to scale objects without distorting them. A symbol is visually divided into nine areas, or slices, with a grid overlay. The dotted lines called slide guides allow you to decide how to divide up the nine or less areas.
• Symbol Registration (p. 329) A registration point is the origin of the symbol; the point in which all transformations are based. For example, when you rotate a symbol, the rotation takes place around the registration point. The symbol registration point in Illustrator is similar to Adobe Flash Professional.
• Freehand to Illustrator Script (p. 342) Illustrator comes with a script to import Freehand images into Illustrator.
• Auto-Rotate Artboards for Printing (p. 358) The Auto-Rotate option in the Print Preferences dialog box allows you to automatically rotate artboards to print to the media size. (Selected by default).
• Export to FXG (p. 386-387) Adobe FXG (Flash XML Graphics) is a file format based on a subset of MXML, the XML-based programming language used by Adobe Flex. Illustrator allows you to save your artwork in the Adobe FXG file format (version 2.0), which you can also use in Flash Catalyst/Flex Builder.
• Save Selected Slices (p. 416) Instead of using the Save for Web & Device dialog box to select and save slices, you can select and slices directly from the document window.
• Camera Raw 6.0 (p. 440-441) With the Camera Raw 6.0 plug-in, you can now get better results when you adjust color tones, reduce noise, add grain-like texture, add sharpening, and add post-crop vignetting and effects. The plug-in now supports more than 275 camera models.
• Adobe CS Review (p. 452-453) Adobe CS Review is an integrated online service that provides a simple way for CS5 users to quickly share their designs on the Web so others can provide feedback.