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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
What’s new
New features
Live Trace
Live Trace automatically turns placed images into beautifully detailed vector graphics that are easy to edit,
resize, and manipulate without distortion. Live Trace reduces the amount of time it takes to recreate a scanned
drawing on-screen from days to minutes or seconds, without loss of quality. You can interactively adjust the results
of a Live Trace using a rich assortment of vectorization options, including preprocessing, tracing, and overlay
options. (See “About tracing artwork” on page 165.)
Live Paint
Live Paint lets you paint vector graphics more intuitively by automatically detecting and correcting gaps
that previously would have affected how fills and strokes were applied. Instead of having to plan every detail of an
illustration in advance to ensure the right shading and colors, you can work more as you would coloring by hand on
paper. (See “About Live Paint” on page 228.)
Enhanced support for spot colors in raster images and effects
Use spot colors in new ways:
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Apply spot colors in raster-based effects, such as drop shadows, glows, feathers, and blurs.
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Colorize an embedded grayscale image with one spot or process color, in either CMYK or RGB document color
spaces. Color can be applied by dragging onto the image or just by clicking on the Swatches palette. (See “To
colorize grayscale or 1-bit images” on page 196.)
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Preserve spot-color rasters and spot-colorized grayscale images when saving to AI, EPS, or PDF files or when
exporting to legacy EPS or legacy AI formats. These spot colors will print accurately from Adobe InDesign® CS2
or QuarkXPress 6 or later, and from Adobe Acrobat® 6.0 or 7.0 Professional.
Offset a stroke on its path
Control whether a stroke is centered on a path or positioned on the inside or the outside
of the path. (See “To change the stroke’s color, width, and alignment” on page 224.)
Type enhancements
Apply underlining and strikethrough to text using the Character palette. (See “To underline or
strike through text” on page 388.) Experience improved performance working with advanced typographical
controls.
Workspace management
Customize your Illustrator workspace to suit your creative workflow:
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Select commonly used options from the context-sensitive Control palette, which reduces the number of palettes
you need to have open. In addition, the Control palette makes options more accessible and allows you to work
with different features more quickly. (See “About the Control palette” on page 33.)
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Arrange palettes and defaults to support a specific workflow or client project, and then save the setup as a named
workspace that you can activate at any time or share with other people or computers. Workspaces help you control
on-screen clutter and streamline the tools available to you for different tasks. (See “To save a custom workspace”
on page 45.)
Expanded support for Wacom tablets
Take advantage of new Wacom tablet features, including pressure tip and
eraser, tilt two side switches, barrel rotation, and large felt-marker-shaped nib. Illustrator® CS2 has built-in support
for the new Wacom Intuos3 tablet.
Place Photoshop® layer comps
You can now control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, and opened
Photoshop files as easily as you control the visibility of regular Photoshop layers. (See “Photoshop import options”
on page 333.)
New SVG and SWF options
Save rich graphical content in SVG-Tiny format, which is optimized for mobile wireless
devices. Then incorporate these graphics into your mobile design and development workflows. (See “SVG format
options” on page 338.)