Adobe Announces Illustrator CS2

Designers to Rediscover the Power of Vector Graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS2 New Version Delivers Breakthrough Creative Tools Along with Advanced SVG-t Support for Developing Mobile Content

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Adobe announces Illustrator CS2

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)–April 4, 2005–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Illustrator® CS2 soft­ware, a sig­nif­i­cant new release of the indus­try stan­dard for cre­at­ing graphically-rich vec­tor con­tent for print, motion graph­ics, the Web and mobile devices. Available as a stand-alone soft­ware appli­ca­tion or as a key com­po­nent of Adobe Creative Suite 2, also announced today (see sep­a­rate press release), Illustrator CS2 enables design­ers to redis­cov­er the pow­er of vec­tor graph­ics through excit­ing new cre­ative tools — such as Live Trace and Live Paint — an enhanced user inter­face and expand­ed sup­port for a vari­ety of file for­mats, includ­ing Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny (SVG‑t) for out­put to mobile platforms.

“With the intro­duc­tion of Illustrator CS2, design­ers have unprece­dent­ed pow­er over vec­tor graph­ics with the abil­i­ty to con­vert their hand-drawn images and col­or their art­work as it was intend­ed and then deliv­er it to the medi­um of their choice,” said Shantanu Narayen, pres­i­dent and chief oper­at­ing offi­cer at Adobe. “Adobe Illustrator remains at the cut­ting edge of graph­ic design and with new fea­tures for mobile author­ing it is an essen­tial com­po­nent to any design and pub­lish­ing workflow.”

Innovative Creative Tools

Breakthrough fea­tures expand cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties and improve design­er pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Live Trace eas­i­ly and accu­rate­ly con­verts scans of hand-drawn sketch­es and dig­i­tal pho­tos into ful­ly editable and scaleable Illustrator art­work in sec­onds. Live Paint enables users to col­or art­work quick­ly and intu­itive­ly, based on how it appears on screen rather than how it was con­struct­ed. Live Paint also solves the com­mon illus­tra­tion chal­lenge of quick­ly cre­at­ing new shapes.

Optimized User Interface

The new Control palette and Custom Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator CS2, help cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als dis­cov­er new and exist­ing tools and opti­mize their work­space and work­flow. The Control palette, a context-sensitive inter­face that pro­vides users con­ve­nient access to 80 per­cent of com­mon­ly used palettes from a sin­gle loca­tion, allows faster selec­tion of menus and fea­tures and frees screen real estate for art­work. Custom Workspaces enable design­ers to select and arrange palettes to sup­port a par­tic­u­lar work­flow or project save it as a named work­space and access it from the Window menu or share it with oth­er designers.

Flexible Output and Tight Integration

Whether design­ing for print, the Web, or mobile plat­forms, Adobe Illustrator CS2 soft­ware makes it easy to col­lab­o­rate cre­ative­ly from first idea to final review. Illustrator CS2 offers expand­ed sup­port for a wide vari­ety of file for­mats, includ­ing industry-standard PDF/X for print work­flows, Macromedia® Flashâ„¢ (SWF) for Web ani­ma­tions, and SVG, includ­ing SVG‑t for appli­ca­tions such as ani­mat­ed pic­ture mes­sag­ing, mobile e‑commerce, and mobile entertainment.

Adobe Illustrator CS2 pro­vides tight inte­gra­tion with Adobe Photoshop® CS2 soft­ware through expand­ed sup­port for Photoshop lay­er com­po­si­tions and direct access to Filters and Effects. This added inte­gra­tion gives design­ers greater cre­ative flex­i­bil­i­ty and con­trol in work­flows that span Adobe Creative Suite 2. Illustrator CS2 includes Adobe Bridge which func­tions as a hub for pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, imagery and cre­ativ­i­ty, pro­vid­ing multi-view file brows­ing and smooth cross-product inte­gra­tion across Adobe Creative Suite 2 soft­ware. Adobe Bridge also pro­vides access to Adobe Stock Photos, a new stock pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vice that offers users one-stop shop­ping — across five elite stock image providers — to deliv­er high-quality, royalty-free images for lay­out and design (see sep­a­rate press release).

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Illustrator CS2 for Mac OS X ver­sion 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 or 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin ship­ping in May to cus­tomers in the United States and Canada, and will be avail­able through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www​.adobe​.com/store . International ver­sions are expect­ed to begin ship­ping in late May and ear­ly June. Estimated street price for the full ver­sion will be US$499 and upgrade pric­ing starts at US$169. For more detailed infor­ma­tion about new fea­tures, upgrade poli­cies and pric­ing, please vis­it: www​.adobe​.com/​i​l​l​u​s​trator . Adobe Illustrator CS2 is also avail­able as a com­po­nent of Adobe Creative Suite 2.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is the world’s lead­ing provider of soft­ware solu­tions to cre­ate, man­age and deliv­er high-impact, reli­able dig­i­tal con­tent. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.adobe​.com .