Adobe Illustrator 10 Defines Future of Cross-Media Graphics Production.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2001 Groundbreaking Creative Options and Productivity Enhancements Enable Designers and Developers to Easily Publish Artwork Anywhere Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ), the leader in network publishing, today announced Adobe(R) Illustrator 10(R), a breakthrough version of the company's industry-standard vector graphics The representation of a digital image as points, lines and other geometric entities. All computer-aided design (CAD), drawing and diagramming programs create vector graphics formats, such as AI, DXF and WMF (see graphics formats). software. Adobe Illustrator A full-featured drawing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe. It provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Included is Adobe Type Manager and a selection of Type 1 fonts. 10 defines the future of vector graphics by providing indispensable tools to cross media design professionals, Web designers, and Web developers for efficiently publishing artwork. With Adobe Illustrator 10, Web designers and developers can work together more closely than ever in high-volume publishing environments. Adobe Illustrator 10 software delivers powerful, integrated tools such as symbols and slicing for creating and optimizing Web graphics, creative options such as live distortion and productivity enhancements such as dynamic data-driven graphics. In addition, Illustrator 10 integrates tightly with Adobe's professional graphics programs including Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. (R), Adobe AlterCast(TM), Adobe GoLive Adobe GoLive is an HTML editor from Adobe Systems. It replaced Adobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor[1]. The latest version of Adobe GoLive is version 9, and is not integrated as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3. (R), Adobe LiveMotion(R), Adobe Premiere(R), Adobe After Effects(R), and others. Also, with the release of Adobe InDesign(R) 2.0, Illustrator 10 users can now maintain transparency between the two products. Powerful Production Tools for Network Publishing Adobe Illustrator 10 streamlines production with support for new dynamic data-driven graphics, which automate the preparation of repetitive artwork. Print professionals can use dynamic data-driven graphics to create an unlimited number of variations of similarly formatted graphics. Web designers can create a template, and then use the new Var iables palette to define objects, such as the product name and company logo in a Web banner, as variables. Users can then quickly generate an unlimited number of unique variations using scripts or dynamic image servers such as Adobe AlterCast(TM), which generates customized graphics content on demand. Producing Superb Web Graphics With Illustrator 10's new support for symbols, professionals can reduce file sizes and manage repeating graphics more efficiently. Users can insert instances of a symbol into their artwork and update those instances automatically by redefining the original symbol. Adobe Illustrator also offers robust new support for object-based slicing, HTML tables with Cascading Style Sheet cascading style sheet Noun computing a file recording style details, such as fonts, colours, etc., that ensures style is consistent over all the pages of a website layers, and enhanced SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. import and export and Macromedia(R) Flash(TM) (SWF See Flash. (filename extension) swf - /S W F/ The filename extension for Adobe Shockwave Flash animated vector graphics files, common on the World-Wide Web. A rarely used alternative expansion is "Small Web Format". ) format export. Users can reduce production time by slicing objects, groups or layers, and optimize performance by specifying raster and vector format options for each slice. "Illustrator 10 offers a well-balanced mix of exciting new creativity and productivity features," said Peter Bauer, help desk director for the National Association of Photoshop(R) Professionals (NAPP NAPP National Association of Photoshop Professionals NAPP National Association of Patent Practitioners (Williamsburg, VA) NAPP National Aerial Photography Program (USGS) ) and Adobe Illustrator 10 beta customer. "It opens new areas for creative exploration and for getting work done faster. It's definitely worth the upgrade." Enabling Extraordinary Creative Freedom Illustrator 10 adds exciting new creative features such as Live Distortion, allowing users to easily bend, stretch, and twist text, graphics, and images in any way imaginable using live enveloping en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" , warping, and liquify liq·ui·fy v. Variant of liquefy. Verb 1. liquify - make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" liquidise, liquidize, liquefy tools. Distorted objects and text remain completely editable no matter how much they have been manipulated, giving users unprecedented creative flexibility. Groundbreaking symbolism tools allow users to create naturalistic masses of repeating elements quickly and easily. Users can spray instances of one or more symbols onto the artboard, and then use one of seven other specialized symbolism tools to interactively adjust colors, spin, resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale , and scrunch to quickly achieve the desired look. Symbolism tools can be used to simulate foliage, crowds, and other large groups of similar objects. Pricing and Availability Adobe Illustrator 10 software will be available in the U.S. and Canada for an estimated street price of US$399 in the fourth (calendar) quarter of 2001. Current users of Adobe Illustrator may upgrade for an estimated street price of US$149. Customers can now pre-order Illustrator 10 on the Adobe corporate Web site at http://www.adobe.com/illustrator. About Adobe Systems Incorporated Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com) builds award-winning software solutions for Network Publishing, including Web, ePaper, print, video, wireless and broadband applications. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media and authoring tools enable customers to create, manage and deliver visually-rich, reliable content. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Adobe is the second-largest PC software company in the U.S., with annual revenues exceeding $1.2 billion. Note to Editors: Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, AlterCast, GoLive, InDesign, LiveMotion, Pagemaker, Photoshop and Premiere are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All prices stated are available only in the United States and Canada. All pricing is listed in U.S. dollars and does not include tax or shipping. Macromedia and Flash are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. |
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