Adobe Illustrator CS5

Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.

Design beautiful text for any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.

Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.

Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.

Try out the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 to more easily design web and device content with the Illustrator HTML5 Pack on Adobe Labs.

Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.

Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.

Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. Achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vector graphics.

Try out the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 to more easily design web and device content with the Illustrator HTML5 Pack on Adobe Labs.

Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.

Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke, or effects panels.

Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.

Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.

Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.

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Design beautiful text for any media with professional controls for paragraph and character styles, support for OpenType®, transparent effects, and more.

Try out the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 to more easily design web and device content with the Illustrator HTML5 Pack on Adobe Labs.

Create and align vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.

Apply raster effects (such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures) that maintain a consistent appearance across media.

Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.

Work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file — named, organized, and viewed the way you want.

Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid and painterly brushes, and advanced path controls.

Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.