Advanced illustration and drawing software

October 10, 10109

Real time, direct editing of objects and styles.
Image and vector effects can be manipulated directly and interactively on the objects.
Advanced tools to edit vectors, text and images.
Powerful snapping options to align objects and shapes, including collision and formation snapping.
Create guidelines at any angle, group guidelines and use different colors per guideline group.
Work seamlessly with multiple documents.
Multiple views of the same document: edit a symbol in one view, see changes in the other view.
Link documents and reuse symbols and styles from other documents.
Build a hierarchy of multiple canvases, and use unlimited number of artboards in a single document.
Use the Properties panel to quickly edit frequently used options.

Select from a large number of parametric shapes to start drawing.
Use real vector brushes, stretching vector graphics along shapes to create brush paint effects.
Use both cubic and quadratic curves in shapes, with smooth and symmetric corners.
Setup corners in any shape, and use arbitrary shapes to defined new corner types.
Powerful nondestructive vector effects to adjust object shapes.
Style objects with multiple outlines and fills using arrows, caps, dashes, stripes, variable stroke width, colors, rich gradients or tiling pattern styles.
Create mesh gradients from any object using the Mesh tool.
Setup gradients along or across a shape.
Use object repeaters to setup vector halftones, space fills, or stippling effects.

Select from a large collection of image effects.
Apply multiple, nondestructive image effects on vector objects, groups or layers.
Use the Image Effect tools to interactively adjust image effect parameters.
Apply image effects as adjustment effects: adjusting content behind an object.
Create adjustment layers using selected image effects.
Import and reuse complex SVG image effect hierarchies.

Preview in vector, pixel or outline modes.
Create a split view of different preview modes, and slide between them quickly.
Zoom in to over 1.000.000% level.
Rotate views to arbitrary angles and draw or edit objects at any viewing angle.
Adjust the extent of sub-pixel division to setup various anti-aliasing modes.
Preview colors, gradients and effects in 16-bit or 32-bit precision per color component.

Import graphics from native AI or PSD files.
Import and export popular file formats: SVG, PDF, Postscript, EPS, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF.
AI files are imported in editable form with tiling patterns, brushes, styles and effects available for reuse and adjustment.
Create multiple slice regions on a canvas for exporting.
Setup multiple export formats, resolutions and options for each slice.
Export all or selected slices only, in one step.
Batch export multiple artboards.
Setup vector objects for batch exporting.
Save the export options with the document and Export Again in a single step.

Unlimited Undo and Redo hierarchy.
Use the History panel to browse the change history.
Alternate histories: select which change to redo.
Save undo and redo history with the document, and browse previous history in a newly opened documents.
Repeat selected recent actions.
Find and replace objects, styles and text.
Copy and paste object styles, object shapes, transparency masks, image effects and character styles.
Create, edit and use Symbols.
Override selected styles locally for a Symbol.

Select Dark or Light user interface theme.
Customize size and color of indicators, used in interactive editing.
Example: change the size and color of nodes displayed while editing curves and their control points.
Set the scaling factor of the user interface for better accessibility.
Setup automatic document backup options.
Customize colors for guidelines, grids and slices.
Customize details of object and curve editing.

Customize application shortcuts.
Create, save and reuse shortcut definition files.
Easily swap between previously saved shortcut definition files.
Setup shortcuts specific to a context only.
Example: a shortcut can have a different meaning when editing text or when editing curves.

Customize the application toolbox.
Create, save and reuse custom toolbox files.
Create and use multiple custom toolboxes at the same time.
Easily swap between previously saved custom toolboxes or open toolboxes in separate panels.