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Don't upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS4!

Adobe Illustrator CS4
That's right, DON'T upgrade to Adobe Illustrator CS4 when it's released later this month. Oh, that is UNLESS you want the two most requested features in Illustrator's long and storied history.

Multiple Artboard documents and transparency in gradients have finally found their way into Adobe's latest upgrade. A whole host of other feature enhancements to smart guides, text on path, the user interface, and more, complement the two big new features in this latest upgrade.

If you're a heavy Illustrator user, this Illustrator CS4 review is definitely something you'll want to check out.

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steveballmer's picture
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... Wait, oh, you think you are being funny or clever or something! Well your headline as is stands correct! Those on the cutting edge KNOW that Paint '09 is the way for all graphic artist to go!
Pixel Manipulation is the way to go people!

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natobasso's picture
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Gawd, you actually had a point there for a second until you started talking about Painter 9.

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steveballmer's picture
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Paint '09 running on Win7 rocks baby!

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natobasso's picture
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Yay: Feature bloat! Now Illustrator will take as long as Photoshop to load! (groan)

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JimD's picture
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I have the last betas of the Design Premium Suite and they all load at least as fast as CS3 did if not faster, with Photoshop loading perhaps the fastest. I don't know how much difference the final shipping versions will have, but I suspect it won't be too different at all.

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natobasso's picture
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Yes, but no doubt you have the latest and greatest Intel chipped mac? :)

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Natobasso
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JimD's picture
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Or at least, too much money! ;-)

I've been testing the CS4 suite on a MacBookPro, 2.2ghz with 2GB RAM and the standard hard drive. Because it's a laptop, it has a slower hard drive than desktop machines, so it should be faster on my MacPro - but I'm not installing betas on my main machine.

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benjancewicz's picture
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all CS4 apps are designed to run faster than CS3. You should check out Bridge. It's amazing.

Anonymous's picture

yah! but it's Getting better...

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