Features:

• Cross-media publishing; publish your artwork to any delivery medium you like
• Includes 3D graphics effects, character and paragraph styles, and innovative text composition controls
• Enhanced support for Adobe PDF, expanded print capabilities, faster performance, and more
• Timesaving tools include dynamic data-driven graphics, robust scripting support, and Action Sets
• Create logos, illustrations, packaging, maps, posters, Web graphics, and more

Product Description:
Adobe Illustrator CS software is an essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium. Powerful new features, including 3D graphics effects, character and paragraph styles, and innovative text composition controls, deliver indispensable design options to help you explore your creative vision. And enhanced support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), expanded print capabilities, faster performance, and tight integration with other Adobe products as well as Microsoft Office make it easier than ever to efficiently publish your artwork anywhere.

• Advanced typographical controls: set sophisticated-looking type with new text composition controls, character and paragraph styles, automatic smart quotes and ligatures, and more.
• Enhanced Adobe PDF file creation: create native Adobe PDF files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software.
• Adobe PDF layers support: create separate layers in Adobe PDF files that can be displayed or hidden within Adobe Acrobat 6.0 software to organize your work or to show different design options.
• Faster performance: work more efficiently with faster opening, saving, and printing of files; copying and pasting; and displaying of artwork.
• 3D effects: create custom 3D shapes and type treatments, add lighting, and wrap artwork around shapes for packaging mock-ups.
• Expanded print capabilities: get fast, consistent print results with a streamlined interface and features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print settings.
• Tighter Microsoft Office integration: easily export Illustrator graphics in a format optimized to print and display in Microsoft Office applications, such as Word and PowerPoint.
• Save As Template command: reuse designs by saving files as templates that include artboard dimensions, placeholder elements, styles, symbols, layers, and more.
• Professionally designed content: get projects off to a quick start with more than 200 professionally designed templates and over 100 OpenType fonts in addition to clip art and stock photographs--all included free.
• Video tour of new features: learn how to use the new features in Illustrator CS with the special quickstart training video, included free.

• Industry-standard tools: use the industry-standard software that creative professionals rely on to create logos, illustrations, packaging, maps, posters, Web graphics, and more.
• Industry-standard drawing tools: draw and edit using intuitive tools, such as the Pencil, Smooth, Erase, and Pen tools.
• Integration with your favorite applications: Easily integrate artwork into other Adobe applications, such as Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, and After Effects software, as well as Microsoft Office products.
• Advanced typographical controls: set sophisticated-looking type with new text composition controls, character and paragraph styles, automatic smart quotes and ligatures, and more.
• Enhanced Adobe PDF file creation: create native Adobe PDF files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software.
• 3D effects: create custom 3D shapes and type treatments, add lighting, and wrap artwork around shapes for packaging mock-ups.
• Powerful creative tools: give your artwork a unique look with powerful creative tools such as transparency, Scribble Effect, brushes, symbolism, and Gradient Mesh.
• Creative effects: apply a variety of nondestructive effects to your artwork, including envelopes, warps, SVG effects, and Photoshop filters, while enjoying the freedom to edit your original artwork at any time.
• Production automation: work at peak efficiency with timesaving tools like dynamic data-driven graphics, robust scripting support, and Action Sets.
• Cross-media publishing: Publish your artwork to any delivery medium you like, from print and the Web to cell phones, PDAs, dynamic media, and more.

• Advanced typographical controls: set sophisticated-looking type with new text composition controls, character and paragraph styles, automatic smart quotes and ligatures, and more.
• Faster performance: work more efficiently with faster opening, saving, and printing of files; copying and pasting; and displaying of artwork.
• 3D effects: create custom 3D shapes and type treatments, add lighting, and wrap artwork around shapes for packaging mock-ups.
• Expanded print capabilities: get fast, consistent print results with a streamlined interface and features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print settings.
• Envelopes and live distortion: easily warp, liquify, and distort artwork any way imaginable with envelopes and live distortion tools.
• Character and Paragraph Styles: apply formatting to individual characters, lines of type, or entire paragraphs with a single click using new Character and Paragraph Styles.
• Industry-standard drawing tools: draw and edit using intuitive tools, such as the Pencil, Smooth, Erase, and Pen tools.
• Adobe-standard user interface: move easily between Illustrator and other Adobe products using the familiar Adobe user interface.
• Live effects: apply live effects without affecting the underlying artwork, so you can edit at any time without starting over.
• Unlimited transparency: expand your design options with blending modes and transparency effects similar to those in Adobe Photoshop software.

• Object-oriented work environment: design for the Web with superb flexibility by using object-oriented drawing tools that enable your graphics to remain completely editable at any time.
• Adobe Photoshop integration: preserve layers, transparency, editable text, slices, and more when moving files between Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Broad Web format support: create graphics for the Web in a variety of standard formats, including SWF export, W3C SVG import and export, and native support for Adobe PDF.
• Pixel Preview: visualize just how your vector artwork will look when rasterized in Web browsers using the Pixel Preview mode.
• Versatile slicing tools: create vector-based slices from objects, groups, or layers. Move or edit an object, group, or layer and any associated slices will update automatically.
• Production automation: work at peak efficiency with timesaving tools like dynamic data-driven graphics, robust scripting support, and Action Sets.
• Save for Web: easily export for the Web using the comprehensive Save for Web dialog box that lets you choose HTML, SWF, GIF, JPEG, and more.
• Support for symbols: keep file sizes small and efficiently manage repeating graphics by using symbols. Instantly update every instance of the symbol when you redefine the original.
• Transparent text effects: expand your typographic options using ghosted text, transparent drop shadows with soft edges, and other effects for transparent text.
• Release to Layers: quickly create animated graphics by blending two objects, using the Release to Layers command, and then exporting the graphic as a SWF file.

• Industry-standard tools: use the industry-standard software that creative professionals rely on to create logos, illustrations, packaging, maps, posters, Web graphics, and more.
• Integration with your favorite applications: easily integrate artwork into other Adobe applications, such as Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, and After Effects software, as well as Microsoft Office products.
• Flexible creative options: unleash your creativity with fully editable creative options, including 3D design features, envelopes, and live distortion tools.
• Powerful graphing tools: communicate data clearly using powerful graphing tools that make it easy to produce visually compelling charts and graphs.
• Professionally designed content: get projects off to a quick start with more than 200 professionally designed templates and over 100 OpenType fonts in addition to clip art and stock photographs--all included free.
• Enhanced Adobe PDF file creation: create native Adobe PDF files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software.
• Advanced typographical controls: set sophisticated-looking type with new text composition controls, character and paragraph styles, automatic smart quotes and ligatures, and more.
• Vector and raster support: create graphics for any use with full support for vector-based artwork and pixel-based images.
• Character and Paragraph Styles: apply formatting to individual characters, lines of type, or entire paragraphs with a single click using new Character and Paragraph Styles.
• Adobe-standard user interface: move easily between Illustrator and other Adobe products using the familiar Adobe user interface.

System requirements:

• Windows:
• Intel Pentium III or 4 processor
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or Windows XP
• 192 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
• 470 MB of available hard-disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• For Adobe PostScript printers: Adobe PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3