Create distinctive vector artwork for any project. Used by design professionals worldwide, Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services.
Adobe Illustrator offers you all thne needed tools for creating and managing amazing vector art design!

Sophisticated vector drawing controls:
· Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.
Gradients and transparency:
· Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.
Beautiful Strokes:
· Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.
In-panel appearance editing:
· Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels.
Integration with Adobe CS Review:
· Create and share online reviews for clients down the hall or around the world with Adobe CS Review, one of the new Adobe CS Live online services.
Industry-standard graphic file format support:
· Work with almost any type of graphic file — including PDF, EPS, FXG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, SVG, DWG, DXF, and more.
Adobe PDF file creation tools:
· Create more secure, multipage, graphic-rich PDF files with Illustrator layers retained. Share files confidently with service providers, including support for PDF/X standards.
Advanced typography:
· Design beautiful text for virtually any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType, transparent effects, and more.
Perspective Drawing:
· Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective and create the look of realistic depth and distance.
Multiple artboard enhancements:
· Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.
Drawing enhancements:
· Draw behind, disregarding stacking order. Draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.
Integration with other Adobe design applications:
· Share files smoothly with other Adobe professional design applications and easily create artwork for multiple uses.
Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices:
· Create vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned raster artwork.

Requirements:
· Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
· 1GB of RAM
· 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
· 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
· DVD-ROM drive
· Broadband Internet connection required for online services

Limitations:
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release:
· PSD files lose saturation of spot colors when imported into AiCS5
· Performance problems when guides are set to dot
· Acrobat 10 documents with passwords fail to open
· Improved precision with DXF import
· Links are broken in legacy formats when image name contains Japanese characters for voiced sound marks
· Rounded Corner Edges that curved inside flipped to curve outside
· Non-Specific Crash when opening or closing files
· Security Issues