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Added Puppet Warp (bend/distort vector art non-destructively via pin points), Responsive artboards (define constraints for scaling), Object selection by depth , and Customizable toolbar (drag tools in/out). Font preview in-character panel.

Share for Review (browser-based commenting), HDR export (for Apple XDR displays), 3D object improvements (export as 3D layers to Photoshop), Data merge (bulk create labels/art from CSV), and Microsoft Teams integration. Improved tracing of low-res images. adobe illustrator-versionshistorie

Released just after Adobe acquired Macromedia (2005). Features: Isolation Mode (edit groups without unlocking layers), Erase tool (vector eraser), and Document profiles (print, web, mobile). Improved crop area and Align to pixel grid for UI design. Performance greatly improved on Intel Macs. CS3 dropped support for Mac OS 9. Improved tracing of low-res images

The star feature: Multiple artboards (up to 100) with independent dimensions, rulers, and export settings. Blob Brush (merge brush strokes into a single path), Gradients on strokes , and Separations Preview . Appearance palette now allowed multiple fills/strokes per object. GPU acceleration (NVIDIA) for zoom and pan. CS4 also introduced Artboard tool and Align to artboard . Improved crop area and Align to pixel grid for UI design

Developed specifically for the Apple Macintosh (System 5), Illustrator 1.0 was the first commercial vector graphics editor to run on a GUI. It leveraged Adobe’s PostScript language to create Bézier curve-based paths. Notably, it lacked a color fill option—only black outlines. The interface was minimal: a canvas, a tool palette, and no zoom functionality beyond 100%. Files were saved as .EPS or .AI (a text-based PostScript variant). It was bundled with Adobe’s own typefaces (Stone, Franklin Gothic) to demonstrate typographic precision.

With the web boom, 8.0 added Smart Guides (dynamic alignment), Gradient Mesh (complex vector shading), Actions palette (macros), and Export to SWF (Flash). It introduced the Magic Wand (select by color attribute) and Bézier curve simplification (reduce anchor points). This was the first version to drop support for System 7, requiring Mac OS 8.1.

Major features: Freeform Gradients (create color stops anywhere in a shape), Global editing (edit all identical objects across artboards), Trim and extend path tool, and Font similarity search (AI-driven font recommendation). Document installation for missing fonts. Faster SVG export .