Adobe Illustrator CS5, Acad, Win, SP

Illustrator CS5, Academic, Win, DVD, ENG Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
Create distinctive vector artwork for any project. Used by design professionals worldwide, Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services.* CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.

Complement your design
Craft vector assets for use in any design project, from logos and branding to graphics for advertising, packaging, and environments.

- 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 beautifully at corners.
- Perspective Drawing
Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, and create the look of realistic depth and distance.
- Integration with Adobe CS Review
Create and share online reviews for clients down the hall or around the world using Adobe CS Review, one of the new CS Live online services.
- Gradients and transparency
Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.
- Multiple artboard enhancements enhanced
Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.
- Drawing enhancements enhanced
Work faster with everyday tools. Join paths with a keystroke, draw behind, and draw inside.
- Advanced typography
Design beautiful text for any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.
- Bristle Brush
Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. Achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vector graphics.
- Shape Builder tool
Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard without accessing multiple tools and panels.
- Resolution-independent effects
Apply raster effects, such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures, that maintain a consistent appearance across media.

Create beautiful websites
Design graphics for banners, web pages, and interactive experiences, or lay out your entire website.

- Crisp graphics for web and mobile
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
- Resolution-independent effects
Apply raster effects, such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures, that maintain a consistent appearance across media.
- Integration with Adobe Flash Professional
Import Illustrator files into Flash® Professional with type better preserved and symbol registration points supported.
- Multiple artboards for web and interactive
Define up to 100 working areas in one file. Paste objects in place across artboards for repeating artwork on multiple web pages, screens, or frames.
- Adobe Device Central
Design, preview, and test rich graphic content for mobile devices and deliver engaging experiences to billions of subscribers.
- Pixel Preview
See how your vector artwork will look when rasterized using the Pixel Preview mode. Edit your artwork and the preview changes live — as you work.
- Symbols for Adobe Flash Professional
Use symbols to animate objects and make editing faster. Registration points are maintained when imported into Flash Professional.
- Web and mobile device export
Easily view, optimize, and export for web and mobile devices, with choices for format, color, quality, compression, and more.
- New Document Profiles for web and mobile devices
Access new pixel-grid alignment from web and mobile device profiles, which also include relevant dimensions, color groups, and more.
- Versatile slicing tools
Create vector-based slices from objects, groups of objects, or layers that are preserved when exporting your artwork as a SWF or PSD file.

Get your ideas in motion
Create original graphics and motion paths for animation, and design artwork for broadcast graphics, titles, station IDs, and bumpers.

- 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 beautifully at corners
- Multiple artboards for motion and effects
Use up to 100 artboards in a single file for multiple frames or design variations. Choose from resolutions for video and options for safe areas, center marks, and more.
- New Document Profiles for motion and effects
Select prebuilt profiles that include relevant document sizes, color groups, gradients, and patterns for video.
- Sophisticated vector drawing tools
Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.
- Advanced typography
Design beautiful text for any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.
- Gradients and transparency
Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.