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#ILLASTRATOR CS4 INSTALL#
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If you want the nitty-gritty of why the tabbed interface is clumsy and unpredictable, read the pages linked above. On the Mac, the interface is even worse, making it a train wreck that breaks Exposé across the Creative Suite applications. In my review of Photoshop CS4 (which uses the exact same tabbed interface as Illustrator), I detailed the shortcomings of the gimmicky tabbed interface on Windows. I think the effect toggling will be especially helpful on a daily basis. All told, the changes are slight but welcome. The Appearance Panel also plays nicer with Isolation Mode to edit objects in clipping masks. The Opacity popup displays the same things that appear in the Transparency Palette. Since there isn't any use dragging elements from the artboard and into the Layers palette for example, CS4's spring-loading seems more like it's the start of something than a finished feature. The only things I found that used this feature were dragging a swatch into the closed Swatch Palette or dragging a styled element into the Styles Palette. Making it more pervasive throughout applications-especially in graphics apps-is a great idea, but it's relatively unused in Illustrator CS4.

Spring-loading is a pretty easy way to make any interface efficient since it saves clicks and having to jump back and forth.

#ILLASTRATOR CS4 UPDATE#

Hopefully it won't be an issue for too long, since developers will eventually update their plug-ins to appear in the Effect menu.

A submenu should have been added under Effect-it's the first place people are going to look when they see a missing Filters menu. While it's nice that some 3rd party filters aren't broken outright, people are going to have a hard time finding them. I'm not sure why Illustrator CS4 puts that there. One Effects menu is enough to house everything, and the Illustrator CS4 vector effects and the Photoshop raster effects are clearly separated within one menu:Ī Filters submenu mysteriously birthed into the Object menu. The Filter menu is now completely gone, which is good since having two Drop Shadow options-one in the Effect menu with a preview and in the Filters menu without a preview-was pretty lame.

#ILLASTRATOR CS4 PRO#

MacBook Pro Santa Rosa Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHzįirst, I'll cover the positive interface changes in Illustrator.

#ILLASTRATOR CS4 SOFTWARE#

QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features.

#ILLASTRATOR CS4 INSTALL#

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).

2GB of available hard-disk space for installation additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices).

#ILLASTRATOR CS4 WINDOWS#

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).

In fact, I'm worried that Adobe's new shorter release cycle is going to kill off these immensely useful tools developed by small companies. Also, having 32-bit and 64-bit versions would also add further costs to 3rd party plug-in developers they have a hard enough time releasing new plug-ins for each Illustrator revision for both Windows and the Mac. If your Illustrator documents are using 3+ GB of RAM, then you're doing something wrong. And it's still 32-bit only on all platforms. Illustrator isn't using the GPU for screen drawing, like Photoshop CS4. Nothing significant has changed in the program's system requirements. That's a pretty good list, so it seems we've got enough for a review.

New Gradient Tool with transparency in gradients.

Blob Tool for painting outlined strokes.

So I guess the big question now is "what else does Illustrator CS4 have?" Here's a short list of the major new improvements:

Illustrator CS4 breaks the single document mold pretty well too, letting you add up to 100 artboards of varying sizes. Well, it's your lucky year, vector pushers-multiple artboards are finally here. Still, there is one missing feature that would come to the minds of the many Illustrator users who have been clamoring for it over the years: the ability to add multiple artboards. As one of those programs that has been honed and honed to near perfection, it's hard to think of something that it really lacks. I wouldn't want to have the job of coming up with new features for Adobe Illustrator, because it certainly wouldn't be easy to dream up something new for version 14 of the industry-standard vector drawing program.