NEW Touch Type tool - Design with type in a powerful new way. Characters can now be manipulated like individual objects. Experiment with moving, scaling, and rotating, knowing you can change the font or edit at any time. And you can now use multitouch devices as well as a mouse or stylus.
NEW Images in brushes - Paint with a brush made from a photo. Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes can contain raster images, so you can create complex organic designs quickly with simple brush strokes. As with all Illustrator brushes, your strokes can be reshaped and modified at will.
NEW Font search - Find the perfect font fast. In the Character panel, type a style such as "bold" or "italic," a font family, or any other part of a font name. You'll get a filtered view that lets you see just the fonts that match your criteria.
COMING SOON Sync Fonts - Sync Fonts part of Creative Cloud will change the way you work with type. Quickly find the perfect font from the growing library of Adobe® Typekit® fonts, sync it to your system, and have it immediately available for use.
NEW Multiple-file place - Import multiple files into your Illustrator layout at the same time and with new control. Now you can define the location and scale of your files images, graphics, and text and use new thumbnail views to see where each file will go and how big it will be.
NEW CSS extraction - Hand-coding web elements such as icons and patterns can be frustrating. Now, create websites faster by letting Illustrator generate CSS code for you, even for a complete logo that includes gradients. Copy and paste the code right into your web editor.
NEW Sync Colors - Capture color themes out in the world with the Adobe Kuler® iPhone app. Share your themes and explore thousands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they'll be accessible immediately in Illustrator.
NEW Area and point type conversion - Instantly switch between area type and point type. Text object conversion is now instantaneous so you can design freely in your text layouts. And you can work just as easily with imported type, switching formats at any time.
NEW Auto corners for pattern brushes - Get the corners you want without extra steps. Create pattern brushes swiftly with auto-generated corners that perfectly match the rest of the stroke. No need to tediously create special corners for your sharp angles.
NEW On-art Free Transform - Get hands-on with the power of the Free Transform tool. Move, scale, and rotate objects directly using a touchscreen device. Or use a mouse or other pointer right on the artboard to transform objects in a more immediate and intuitive way.
NEW Behance Integration - Save work directly from Illustrator CC to Behance to showcase finished projects or share a work in progress. As you perfect your work and upload new versions, get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.
COMING SOON Sync Settings - Work the way you like on any of your computers Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace settings to Creative Cloud including Illustrator preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries so they go where you go.
NEW Faster type performance - Work faster with type, even in your most complicated, type-intensive designs. Text that wraps around objects and type that is set in multiple connected text frames now refreshes quickly when you make a change.
NEW File packaging - File packaging automatically gathers and saves the necessary fonts, linked graphics, and a package report into a single folder. Efficiently hand off Illustrator files to production or keep your working files organized by packaging up your project.
NEW Unembedded images - Easily unembed images that have been placed and embedded in an Illustrator file. You can quickly make images available for editing or extract files embedded in artwork you received from someone else. Links to the image files are created automatically.
NEW Expanded Links panel options - Get more complete information about any placed file in the Links panel. All of your placed elements images, graphics, and text appear in the Links panel, where you can track them with greater control than ever before.
Sophisticated vector drawing tools - Create compelling vector graphics for print, web, mobile, and video. With precise shape-building tools, painterly brushes, and advanced path controls, you can experiment freely with intricate shapes, complex effects, and elegant typography.
Mercury Performance System - Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files. With native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows®, the Adobe Mercury Performance System lets you access all your RAM to easily open, save, and export large files and preview intricate designs.
Multiple artboards - Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes, overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print independently or together.
Gradients and transparency - Interact with gradients directly on objects, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Apply gradients to strokes along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself. Even create gradients on meshes.
Variable-width strokes - Draw strokes with variable widths, quickly and smoothly adjusting at any point. Create and save width profiles and apply them to any stroke, or use variable-width presets.
Crisp graphics for web and mobile - Create and align vector objects precisely on your document's pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for precise control over individual text frames.
Image Trace - Convert raster images to editable vectors with a powerful tracing engine that provides exceptional control over colors and shapes. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results using simple, intuitive options.
Pattern creation - Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different kinds of repeating vector patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.
System requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 or Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit)
- 1GB of RAM (3GB recommended) for 32 bit; 2GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
- 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
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