Adobe Illustrator CS4

Use this perspective grid plug-in for 3D designs, grids, alignment, and 1pt and 2pt perspective.

Create starbursts, 3D stars, emboss stars, flower designs, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with more layout features plus additional shape designs for stars.

Add prototyping features to Illustrator for modeling package designs and other dimensional projects with this third-party plug-in.

This third-party plug-in offers more than 82 stunning vector effects applied in real time at high speeds.

A complete solution for packaging designers, Studio puts interactive 3D packaging creation in the hands of the designer. Work in a 3D environment as if you were holding the package in your own hand and maintain a live link between 3D design visualization and the unfolded 2D structure. Studio offers a 3D viewing environment where designers can see their artwork applied instantly on the packaging.

Instantly convert any outline into a 3D object. Now with perspective control.

Import industry-standard IGES files and export DXF, DWG, and Adobe Illustrator files. Specify the scale when importing data, allowing for the most appropriate placing possible and convert a spline curves into a Bézier curves.

Turn Illustrator into a highly functional 2D CAD tool with the BPT-Pro2 plug-in. Easily display the dimensions of objects with free curved lines, and measure everything from a segment of an object, to the object itself, and even groups of objects.

Plug-in bundle or 2D CAD drawing and DXF export combines BPT-Pro2 and EXDXF-Pro-2.

Use the EXDXF-Pro2 plug-in to convert standard CAD DXF files to Illustrator files or to convert Illustrator files to DXF files for exporting.

Code Zebra Symbols for Illustrator provides thousands of technical symbols in architecture, building services, landscaping, electrical, mechanical, fasteners, and general (people, vehicles, network, and so on.) categories. These meticulously crafted symbols conform to all applicable industry standards, and many libraries contain detailed isometric views of fasteners, mechanical and structural components, electrical connectors, and more.

With the ArtiosCAD Import plug-in, you can open and place native ArtiosCAD files in Illustrator without any file conversion.

The ArtiosCAD export plug-in allows users to write ArtiosCAD files from Illustrator or to paste Illustrator objects directly into ArtiosCAD, including their line type properties. These line type properties can be assigned in Illustrator by using the ArtiosCAD line type swatch library.

Add 134 vector-based swatch patterns for design documents. Patterns tile seamlessly and include stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, building materials and much more.

Draw in any scale, dimension artwork with a mouse click, and numerically control size and location of objects or points. Just click-drag with CADtools to make design work easy and elegant — right inside Adobe Illustrator.

Concatenate connects two or more paths into one continuous path. It's especially useful for cleaning up CAD drawings and EPS files that have been converted to Adobe Illustrator or, for example, connecting and filling state/country borders in vector map files.

Manipulate pattern swatches and combine them to create graphic styles for use in fashions, tiling, and more.

The Artlandia Collection is ideal for creating surface patterns, textile designs, endpapers, web page backgrounds, illustrations, and all other projects where repeated patterns are needed.

Instantly create live, interactive patterns, designs, and ornaments in seconds. you can create replicas of selected elements. This simple feature is really the workhorse of the new version and it will change the way you design your patterns.

Designers can now easily create and manage color storyboards. And best of all, when you make changes to a sketch, all color combinations will be updated automatically.

Embroidery i2 provides the ability to draw objects with Adobe® Illustrator® and convert the objects to stitches within the same window. Since it's a plug-in, Embroidery i2 works on both Intel based Mac's and PC.

Bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-end graphic design for high quality creation, high-resolution printing and electronic publishing of maps.

Cartography-focused site that includes links to specialized plug-ins of interest to cartographers.

MapStudio is a set of orienteering tools and symbols for Illustrator that helps you to draw high-quality orienteering maps in shorter time than ever before.

Concatenate is a plug-in filter for Adobe Illustrator that connects two or more paths into one continuous path. It's especially useful for cleaning up CAD drawings and EPS files that have been converted to Adobe Illustrator or, for example, connecting and filling state/country borders in vector map files.

Quickly draw railroad track plans. Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select turnout size, scale, curve radius, easements, and track centers. Trackwork is automatically joined and held tangent to the connecting track.

This plug-in allows you to view and finely adjust the coordinates of path points. Path data is also shown.

With this Adobe Illustrator plug-in, designers can now easily create and manage color storyboards. And best of all, when you make changes to a sketch, all color combinations will be updated automatically.

The ColorPath plug-in set includes grid, spiral, frame/edge, color effects, and line effects plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Gradients contains two powerful plug-ins for manipulating gradients and creating gradient textures, patterns, designs, and styles. It also includes aspect ratio and transparency with Illustrator CS4.

Phantasm CS adds a full range of professional color adjustments and print/publishing controls tightly integrated within Adobe Illustrator (Macintosh and Windows®). Familiar controls for brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, levels, curves, and more are available as filters and live effects.

Designers can now easily create and manage color storyboards. And best of all, when you make changes to a sketch, all color combinations will be updated automatically.

GenoPal is an easy-to-use color combination and matching tool. It lets users pick a color from an existing palette or any window or picture on their computer. GenoPal will move around in over 16 million different colors to find the ones that match yours. It generates exciting palettes that you can save for later use, read in HEX, or export directly to Adobe Photoshop® or Illustrator.

SepPreview enables users to view and print Illustrator documents as color separations, in color.

Color Referee is a powerful tool for anyone processing Adobe Illustrator files for Print. This Plug-In automates the time-consuming process of identifying the attributes of color areas and objects in any complex Adobe Illustrator design.

Creation contains duplication, round, and abstract plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

With VectorWand, paint on effects such as scaling, color, rotation, translation, gradients, tints, swatches, opacity, points manipulation, and more via the toolbox; manipulate a single path, multiple paths, symbols, symbols text, or gradients; and more.

Import industry-standard IGES files and export DXF, DWG, and Adobe Illustrator files. Specify the scale when importing data, allowing for the most appropriate placing possible and convert a spline curves into a Bézier curves.

Use the EXDXF-Pro2 plug-in to convert standard CAD DXF files to Illustrator files or to convert Illustrator files to DXF files for exporting.

JPEG Publisher creates JPEG files each time an Illustrator file is saved in a target location. JPEG files are created, according to individual settings, for the entire file, layer or layer/sublayer combination. Then when the Illustrator file is edited in the target location, the JPEG files are also automatically updated.

Image database plug in. Share image files created in DB Palette within the network. Bundle images, including linked files, for printing.

Suitcase Fusion, a professional-level font manager for the Mac desktop, eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It combines the best of Suitcase and Font Reserve to provide reliable, hassle-free font management.

This professional font management suitcase for Windows® eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows.

Want your digital assets at your fingertips, with thousands of graphics, photos, and other digital files efficiently organized? Whip your assets into shape with Portfolio 8.5, an intuitive, powerful, and expandable system.

A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server X1 ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.

FontAgent Pro Server brings scalability, speed, security, stability, and simplicity to the creative community and business world. This third-party plug-in repairs, optimizes, and manages licenses for all your fonts, so you spend less time managing font collections, and your users spend more time getting work done.

FontAgent Pro 4 delivers a huge set of font management features to the Mac. You can still repair, optimize, and organize your fonts, and then build font libraries and cascading sets that you can activate, manage, secure, print, and preview.

FontAgent Pro 4 brings powerful font management to Windows. Many Windows users think they are immune to font problems, but by storing all their fonts in the Fonts Control Panel, they waste system resources, bloat font menus, slow system performance, and risk random crashes.

TypeTrax adds the missing link to your digital design projects. Just drag a document into Canto Cumulus and TypeTrax automatically detects and displays the project’s fonts in WYSIWYG mode, so you always have the right fonts.

Smasher, the performance partner to Mac OS X font manager, gives you the power to look deep inside fonts and suitcases to solve problems fast. Fix font display and printing problems, check basic font integrity, clean up font folder and suitcase nightmares, eliminate application crashes and performance problems, find missing fonts, and move fonts between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Scoop copies of fonts and placed image files and extracts embedded raster images, saving them into a new folder.

The Plug-ins Collection contains volumes 1 to 23 of the Andrew’s Vector Plug-ins for Illustrator. Plug-ins can be used in thousands of ways: creating paths; creating designs; manipulating images and symbols; modifying gradients, patterns, and paths to create stunning paths; and more.

Over 13 plug-ins in this toolset allow you to create beautiful illustrations and designs. This set includes interactive and easy-to-use features including patterns, tile, color, and stroke scaling features.

Use this perspective grid plug-in for 3D designs, grids, alignment, and 1pt and 2pt perspective.

Create many different spiral designs, backgrounds, sketch effects, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Use the heart designs in scrapbooking, fashion designs, textiles, patterns and more. Includes many heart and romantic point manipulation features.

The PointEffects plug-in set combines four plug-ins to manipulate path points including distortion and warping of paths and points, splitting of paths and sketch, points manipulation, and pie slicing for stunning zoom and manga effects.

CFS HyperGraph is a print media graphing automation solution. CFS HyperGraph automatically lays out print-ready graphs for newspapers and magazines. CFS HyperGraph automatically captures current financial market data from sources such as AP, Bloomberg, and others; outputs ready-for-print graphs as EPS, PDF, or Illustrator documents; and places them into InDesign or CCI layouts.

Sign making plug-ins that add powerful vinyl cutting features programs so you can cut directly out of Illustrator. CoCut plots all your designs with the push of a button. Control your plotter speed, resolution and knife-pressure, on-the-fly.

Produce and publish in one environment! Create multiple pages in Adobe Illustrator and export or print multiple pages with ease. Version 4 supports PDF, JPEG and EPS export of multiple pages for enhanced web and print design.

Work with isometric, oblique, and perspective drawing tools right inside Adobe Illustrator. Draw lines, planes, cubes and cylinders over an adjustable background grid for high impact presentations.

Because of its strength in roundtripping text, the CopyFlow Gold XTension for Adobe Illustrator is a favorite of translation houses. CopyFlow Gold is most often used to batch export formatted text out of Illustrator documents to a computerized translation system, and then batch import the translated text back into its original page location — all while preserving the typographic formatting. CopyFlow Gold works on entire folders of AI documents, cuts production time, and saves time and money.

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Illustrator or InDesign installed on the same computer. Double-clicking a file's icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly resave a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it's a customer file, and the customer won't be able to open the updated file when you email it back. Soxy provides a workaround for this problem on Mac OS X and Windows.

This plug-in adds three new commands to the view menu: Zoom To, Zoom From, and Fit Selected.

DeskPack is a modular suite of professional packaging design, layout, and preproduction tools that run as plug-ins for Illustrator CS, CS2, and CS3. With DeskPack, Illustrator users have simple, affordable, and controllable access to dedicated packaging design and visualization tools, sophisticated printability verification, and professional prepress tools. DeskPack contains everything you need to transform concept designs in Illustrator into print-ready production files.

A complete solution for packaging designers, Studio puts interactive 3D packaging creation in the hands of the designer. Work in a 3D environment as if you were holding the package in your own hand and maintain a live link between 3D design visualization and the unfolded 2D structure. Studio offers a 3D viewing environment where designers can see their artwork applied instantly on the packaging.

For the structural design of flexible packaging, Studio Toolkit for Flexibles provides the ability to design and visualize 3D flexible packaging structures early in the development process, and connects structure to design for realistic digital prototypes.

With this toolkit, designers can create box shapes that can be imported, sketched and folded right inside Adobe Illustrator. Or designers can take an existing technical drawing and fold it into a 3D representation of a box.

Edit and maintain text from outside Illustrator. The Dynamic Content plug-in establishes dynamic XML links between the brand owners content management system and their suppliers. This reduces possible text errors, costs in the package update process, proofing costs and limits the number of "touches" to packaging text.

barX generates barcodes automatically, with checks and balances, to assure the correct code is printed accurately. The barcodes are dynamic and can be updated at any time. In addition, barX provides settings for box size, bar width reduction, magnification, height, and resolution to assure accuracy and printability.

boostX is a portfolio of dedicated tools to accelerate frequently used selection and alignment operations and to add new ways to handle spot colors and special inks.

checkX is an interactive preflight tool that lets you validate designs in Illustrator. Direct feedback and correction tools are provided. checkX alerts you to any object that doesn't comply with a print process and manufacturing profile.

Make last-minute revisions of bitmap images possible in Illustrator. imageX extracts embedded images, which cannot be edited, and changes them to linked images, allowing you to edit them with Adobe Photoshop® software.

screenX allows you to create Illustrator files with multiple rulings, angles, screening, and dot gain compensation in a single separation. screenX settings are supported by Esko's FlexRip and Afga ApogeeX.

seamlessX creates seamless, continuous output by calculating the correct spacing and repeating numbers to properly wrap the pattern around the particular cylinder. Industry examples are wallpaper, plastic laminates, upholstery, imitation wood, vinyl flooring, and many more.

stepX is a powerful tool for the creation of print-ready layouts. It provides a robust set of automatic and interactive tools to create step-and-repeat arrangements for single or multiple jobs. stepX allows label printers to take control and reduce costs by bringing optimum plate layout in-house to Illustrator.

viewX adds new features to allow you to visually inspect your packaging design in Illustrator. It gives you access to all predefined press settings during your visual inspection in the floating viewX palette.

trapX is based on Esko's ColorStitch technology, considered one of the best in the industry. Trapping is done without ever leaving Illustrator. And while trapX is trapping a design in the background with blazing speed, Illustrator is immediately available to start preparing the next job. trapX allows an operator to trap objects, editable text, special fills, transparency, gradients, and process and spot color images together to assure a perfect job, independent of how it is printed.

The OutRight plug-in is based on Esko’s OutRight technology and guarantees a perfect match between proof, film, or plate, no matter what PDF version, PostScript® RIP, or imaging device is used. OutRight ensures that transparencies, overprints, traps, and vignettes are rendered correctly. This new capability, unique in PDF and PostScript environments, simplifies the accurate proofing of complex multi-ink designs on standard four-color PostScript proofing devices.

The ArtiosCAD export plug-in allows users to write ArtiosCAD files from Illustrator or to paste Illustrator objects directly into ArtiosCAD, including their line type properties. These line type properties can be assigned in Illustrator by using the ArtiosCAD line type swatch library.

With the ArtiosCAD Import plug-in, you can open and place native ArtiosCAD files in Illustrator without any file conversion.

Add prototyping features to Illustrator for modeling package designs and other dimensional projects with this third-party plug-in.

The Ubelix plug-in for Illustrator is part of an integrated solution to manage the packaging lifecycle. The solution includes a centralized content management system for copy and graphics assets that enables distributed tracking, reuse, consistency, and certification of assets across projects. The Ubelix plug-in provides Illustrator users with direct real-time access to assets.

Build a complete RSC or HSC corrugated carton layout in less than a minute.

The Plug-ins Collection includes all of the plug-ins from graphicxtras.com in a single collection for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4, including zigzag, multitoolbox, gradient, mesh, pattern, contour, lattice, orbital, and vector wand plug-ins and more.

Apply basic to extreme warping and color effects to a mesh as well as modify a warp mesh.

The ShapeFX1 plug-in set includes a shape creation plug-in for many shape designs plus a warping plug-in for extreme and basic warping of selected paths. Now the shape plug-in comes with additional path creation features in Illustrator CS4 for unusual and extreme path creation and designs.

Use this contour/zoom/inset plug-in on selected paths and images and symbols for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Drag anywhere on a path and edit only the exact location you want with this third-party plug-in.

BetterHandles combines a tool and palette to make working with Bezier curve handles easier and more powerful. With it, you can select multiple handles and collectively move, extend, rotate, or retract them; extend or retract handles without changing their angles; edit points numerically (anchor, in handle, out handle); convert multiple points between corner and smooth; and much more.

EZConstrain 1.0 is a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. It creates a floating palette through which you can easily view, change, and reset the constrain angle without having to go through the general preferences dialog.

SnapMeasure utilizes Smart Guides for clear, easy snaps. Even without Smart Guides, it can snap to points, handles and paths with a red highlighting ring, making it even easier to be sure you're getting the right value on the first try.

Concatenate is a plug-in filter for Adobe Illustrator that connects two or more paths into one continuous path. It's especially useful for cleaning up CAD drawings and EPS files that have been converted to Adobe Illustrator or, for example, connecting and filling state/country borders in vector map files.

Adds three tools: Hatchet, cuts through all paths at that point, not just the top path; Saber Saw, fence cuts through all paths that cross the one drawn; Vector Vac, either click on paths or drag through them to delete them.

Adjust the position of a patterned fill within an object or dash pattern along a path. Clicking the arrow buttons will move the dash or pattern by one point. Holding down combinations of modifier keys will make the distance moved longer or shorter.

Convert a selected path's anchor points to corner points, and adjust the path segments so that lines within 20 degrees of vertical and horizontal will be made square.

Quickly draw railroad track plans. Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select turnout size, scale, curve radius, easements, and track centers. Trackwork is automatically joined and held tangent to the connecting track.

Curvius adds seven new filters to the Illustrator filter menu: Crenellate, Reverse Path Roughen Roulette Simplify Smooth and Straighten.

Kimbo adds 11 new tools in 2 tool groups to Illustrator's tool palette. These tools permit the creation of artwork that would otherwise be difficult or time-consuming to create.

Mesh Utils adds eight filters and one tool to create, color, and otherwise manipulate gradient meshes.

This plug-in allows you to view and finely adjust the coordinates of path points. Path data is also shown.

Add stunning creative filters and "can't do without" workflow tools to simply design projects.. Eight plug-ins include powerful shape editing tools, elegant texturing facilities, intuitive and interactive color editing, and workspace management.

Point Control provides many user-requested path- and point-editing functions in one easy-to-use floating palette.

The Multitoolbox plug-in lets you manipulate paths, images, and symbols in hundreds of ways. It also includes a points manipulation toolbox plug-in and comes with circular features, paint features, a spiral option, duplication and grids, a drag paths feature, and more.

The Zigzag plug-in for borders and zigzag designs includes hundreds of designs for stunning effects and illustrations.

SymbolTexture is a texture generator and pattern design plug-in using symbols. Create dramatic and unique texture designs in seconds, and modify the distribution, density, rotation, and scaling of symbols.

This star creation plug-in can be used to create thousands of different star and shape designs. The Illustrator CS4 version now comes with many different layout features for even more dramatic star effects.

Create thousands of unique heart designs for Valentine’s Day and romance. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with even more layout features.

Manipulate pattern swatches and combine them to create graphic styles for use in fashions, tiling, and more.

The RandomTouch plug-in set for random particle effects in Illustrator combines five plug-ins including a background plug-in (using selected paths or symbols and more complex designs); a particle plug-in; a plug-in for random clutter of designs such as stars, circles, and ovals; and more.

GXLatticeConnect is a lattice and grid designs plug-in that is packed with many stunning grid designs. Use on its own or with Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, or CS4.

Create rain, orbit designs, particles, frame designs, and more using selected paths, images or symbols, or prebuilt designs.

The Artlandia Collection is ideal for creating surface patterns, textile designs, endpapers, web page backgrounds, illustrations, and all other projects where repeated patterns are needed.

Instantly create live, interactive patterns, designs, and ornaments in seconds. you can create replicas of selected elements. This simple feature is really the workhorse of the new version and it will change the way you design your patterns.

Fantastic Machines Tile Tools is a set of 21 Photoshop compatible plug-in graphic filters that can be used to create amazing tileable images and textures. Try the demo with seven of the filters fully enabled.

Add 134 vector-based swatch patterns for design documents. Patterns tile seamlessly and include stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, building materials and much more.

Adjust the position of a patterned fill within an object or dash pattern along a path. Clicking the arrow buttons will move the dash or pattern by one point. Holding down combinations of modifier keys will make the distance moved longer or shorter.

Create natural-looking textures as Live Effects from gradient-filled art. The textures are created as paths. Play with the settings and the gradient to create an endless selection of beautiful effects.

Tessella goes beyond Illustrator’s rectangular patterns and allows you to create not only rectangular patterns but also rhombic, hexagonal, triangular ones as well.

Reduce the size of images linked to Illustrator documents by eliminating excessive image data. Automatically reduce image resolution, scale images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in Illustrator and the target resolution specified, and re-import them to Illustrator at 100%.

Slugger AI CS is a basic automated slug for Illustrator CS that updates important information on printouts.

QwikMarx is your solution for building more accurate layouts, making it easier for everyone involved to see the dimension marks onscreen or in a printout. With QwikMarx, these marks are displayed for you on the document itself. This means as an ad moves through the stages of publication, each person working on the ad has a precise understanding of what the trim, live, and bleed dimensions are, as well as what the fold dimensions are.

Creates a proof block for routing illustrations to editors and art directors prior to publication.

Scan path and text objects in an Illustrator document, including hidden and locked objects and layers, and to turn off the overprint setting for white objects.

Scoop copies of fonts and placed image files and extracts embedded raster images, saving them into a new folder.

Select art with Transparency, Effects, and Blend modes. Quickly identify objects that may cause problems when printing or flattening.

SepPreview enables users to view and print Illustrator documents as color separations, in color.

Color Referee is a powerful tool for anyone processing Adobe Illustrator files for Print. This Plug-In automates the time-consuming process of identifying the attributes of color areas and objects in any complex Adobe Illustrator design.

Scriptographer is a scripting plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language.

Use Layer plug-ins (transformations spread over multiple layers) for animations and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Zoomlines lets you create zoom lines, focus line designs, and dramatic zoom effects in Illustrator — great for manga comics designs, illustrations, and more.

This third-party plug-in offers more than 82 stunning vector effects applied in real time at high speeds.

Add stunning creative filters and "can't do without" workflow tools to simply design projects.. Eight plug-ins include powerful shape editing tools, elegant texturing facilities, intuitive and interactive color editing, and workspace management.

SymbolPaint is a painting plug-in toolbox that uses dabs, bristles, and more to paint symbols (images, text, pages of text, selected paths, meshes).

SymbolsTexture is a texture generation/pattern design plug-in using symbols that offers many different options for layers, animations, randomization, and distribution.

The SymbolsToolbox manipulation plug-in includes spiral, grid, zoom, randomized, circular, and more designs.

This banner/headline plug-in offers many different options to create stunning designs from symbols in the symbols palette.

The Plug-ins Collection includes all of the plug-ins from graphicxtras.com in a single collection for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4, including zigzag, multitoolbox, gradient, mesh, pattern, contour, lattice, orbital, and vector wand plug-ins and more.

Creation contains duplication, round, and abstract plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

The ColorPath plug-in set includes grid, spiral, frame/edge, color effects, and line effects plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Gradients contains two powerful plug-ins for manipulating gradients and creating gradient textures, patterns, designs, and styles. It also includes aspect ratio and transparency with Illustrator CS4.

The Multitoolbox plug-in lets you manipulate paths, images, and symbols in hundreds of ways. It also includes a points manipulation toolbox plug-in and comes with circular features, paint features, a spiral option, duplication and grids, a drag paths feature, and more.

The Zigzag plug-in for borders and zigzag designs includes hundreds of designs for stunning effects and illustrations.

Use this perspective grid plug-in for 3D designs, grids, alignment, and 1pt and 2pt perspective.

With VectorWand, paint on effects such as scaling, color, rotation, translation, gradients, tints, swatches, opacity, points manipulation, and more via the toolbox; manipulate a single path, multiple paths, symbols, symbols text, or gradients; and more.

SymbolPaint is a painting plug-in toolbox that uses dabs, bristles, and more to paint symbols (images, text, pages of text, selected paths, meshes).

SymbolsTexture is a texture generation/pattern design plug-in using symbols that offers many different options for layers, animations, randomization, and distribution.

The SymbolsToolbox manipulation plug-in includes spiral, grid, zoom, randomized, circular, and more designs.

This banner/headline plug-in offers many different options to create stunning designs from symbols in the symbols palette.

The ShapeFX1 plug-in set includes a shape creation plug-in for many shape designs plus a warping plug-in for extreme and basic warping of selected paths. Now the shape plug-in comes with additional path creation features in Illustrator CS4 for unusual and extreme path creation and designs.

Create many different spiral designs, backgrounds, sketch effects, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

This star creation plug-in can be used to create thousands of different star and shape designs. The Illustrator CS4 version now comes with many different layout features for even more dramatic star effects.

Create thousands of unique heart designs for Valentine’s Day and romance. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with even more layout features.

Apply basic to extreme warping and color effects to a mesh as well as modify a warp mesh.

Manipulate pattern swatches and combine them to create graphic styles for use in fashions, tiling, and more.

Use this contour/zoom/inset plug-in on selected paths and images and symbols for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

The PointEffects plug-in set combines four plug-ins to manipulate path points including distortion and warping of paths and points, splitting of paths and sketch, points manipulation, and pie slicing for stunning zoom and manga effects.

The RandomTouch plug-in set for random particle effects in Illustrator combines five plug-ins including a background plug-in (using selected paths or symbols and more complex designs); a particle plug-in; a plug-in for random clutter of designs such as stars, circles, and ovals; and more.

Use Layer plug-ins (transformations spread over multiple layers) for animations and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.

Create starbursts, 3D stars, emboss stars, flower designs, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with more layout features plus additional shape designs for stars.

Zoomlines lets you create zoom lines, focus line designs, and dramatic zoom effects in Illustrator — great for manga comics designs, illustrations, and more.

GXLatticeConnect is a lattice and grid designs plug-in that is packed with many stunning grid designs. Use on its own or with Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, or CS4.

Create rain, orbit designs, particles, frame designs, and more using selected paths, images or symbols, or prebuilt designs.

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Import industry-standard IGES files and export DXF, DWG, and Adobe Illustrator files. Specify the scale when importing data, allowing for the most appropriate placing possible and convert a spline curves into a Bézier curves.

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The Artlandia Collection is ideal for creating surface patterns, textile designs, endpapers, web page backgrounds, illustrations, and all other projects where repeated patterns are needed.

Instantly create live, interactive patterns, designs, and ornaments in seconds. you can create replicas of selected elements. This simple feature is really the workhorse of the new version and it will change the way you design your patterns.

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Phantasm CS adds a full range of professional color adjustments and print/publishing controls tightly integrated within Adobe Illustrator (Macintosh and Windows®). Familiar controls for brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, levels, curves, and more are available as filters and live effects.

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MAPublisher is a powerful suite of plug-ins for Illustrator that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-end graphic design for the high-quality creation, high-resolution printing, and electronic publishing of maps.

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Turn Illustrator into a highly functional 2D CAD tool with the BPT-Pro2 plug-in. Easily display the dimensions of objects with free curved lines, and measure everything from a segment of an object, to the object itself, and even groups of objects.

Plug-in bundle or 2D CAD drawing and DXF export combines BPT-Pro2 and EXDXF-Pro-2.

Use the EXDXF-Pro2 plug-in to convert standard CAD DXF files to Illustrator files or to convert Illustrator files to DXF files for exporting.

Image database plug in. Share image files created in DB Palette within the network. Bundle images, including linked files, for printing.

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Code Zebra Symbols for Illustrator provides thousands of technical symbols in architecture, building services, landscaping, electrical, mechanical, fasteners, and general (people, vehicles, network, and so on.) categories. These meticulously crafted symbols conform to all applicable industry standards, and many libraries contain detailed isometric views of fasteners, mechanical and structural components, electrical connectors, and more.

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Add prototyping features to Illustrator for modeling package designs and other dimensional projects with this third-party plug-in.

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CFS HyperGraph is a print media graphing automation solution. CFS HyperGraph automatically lays out print-ready graphs for newspapers and magazines. CFS HyperGraph automatically captures current financial market data from sources such as AP, Bloomberg, and others; outputs ready-for-print graphs as EPS, PDF, or Illustrator documents; and places them into InDesign or CCI layouts.

This third-party plug-in offers more than 82 stunning vector effects applied in real time at high speeds.

Drag anywhere on a path and edit only the exact location you want with this third-party plug-in.

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JPEG Publisher creates JPEG files each time an Illustrator file is saved in a target location. JPEG files are created, according to individual settings, for the entire file, layer or layer/sublayer combination. Then when the Illustrator file is edited in the target location, the JPEG files are also automatically updated.

DeskPack is a modular suite of professional packaging design, layout, and preproduction tools that run as plug-ins for Illustrator CS, CS2, and CS3. With DeskPack, Illustrator users have simple, affordable, and controllable access to dedicated packaging design and visualization tools, sophisticated printability verification, and professional prepress tools. DeskPack contains everything you need to transform concept designs in Illustrator into print-ready production files.

A complete solution for packaging designers, Studio puts interactive 3D packaging creation in the hands of the designer. Work in a 3D environment as if you were holding the package in your own hand and maintain a live link between 3D design visualization and the unfolded 2D structure. Studio offers a 3D viewing environment where designers can see their artwork applied instantly on the packaging.

For the structural design of flexible packaging, Studio Toolkit for Flexibles provides the ability to design and visualize 3D flexible packaging structures early in the development process, and connects structure to design for realistic digital prototypes.

With this toolkit, designers can create box shapes that can be imported, sketched and folded right inside Adobe Illustrator. Or designers can take an existing technical drawing and fold it into a 3D representation of a box.

Edit and maintain text from outside Illustrator. The Dynamic Content plug-in establishes dynamic XML links between the brand owners content management system and their suppliers. This reduces possible text errors, costs in the package update process, proofing costs and limits the number of "touches" to packaging text.

barX generates barcodes automatically, with checks and balances, to assure the correct code is printed accurately. The barcodes are dynamic and can be updated at any time. In addition, barX provides settings for box size, bar width reduction, magnification, height, and resolution to assure accuracy and printability.

boostX is a portfolio of dedicated tools to accelerate frequently used selection and alignment operations and to add new ways to handle spot colors and special inks.

checkX is an interactive preflight tool that lets you validate designs in Illustrator. Direct feedback and correction tools are provided. checkX alerts you to any object that doesn't comply with a print process and manufacturing profile.

Make last-minute revisions of bitmap images possible in Illustrator. imageX extracts embedded images, which cannot be edited, and changes them to linked images, allowing you to edit them with Adobe Photoshop® software.

screenX allows you to create Illustrator files with multiple rulings, angles, screening, and dot gain compensation in a single separation. screenX settings are supported by Esko's FlexRip and Afga ApogeeX.

seamlessX creates seamless, continuous output by calculating the correct spacing and repeating numbers to properly wrap the pattern around the particular cylinder. Industry examples are wallpaper, plastic laminates, upholstery, imitation wood, vinyl flooring, and many more.

stepX is a powerful tool for the creation of print-ready layouts. It provides a robust set of automatic and interactive tools to create step-and-repeat arrangements for single or multiple jobs. stepX allows label printers to take control and reduce costs by bringing optimum plate layout in-house to Illustrator.

viewX adds new features to allow you to visually inspect your packaging design in Illustrator. It gives you access to all predefined press settings during your visual inspection in the floating viewX palette.

trapX is based on Esko's ColorStitch technology, considered one of the best in the industry. Trapping is done without ever leaving Illustrator. And while trapX is trapping a design in the background with blazing speed, Illustrator is immediately available to start preparing the next job. trapX allows an operator to trap objects, editable text, special fills, transparency, gradients, and process and spot color images together to assure a perfect job, independent of how it is printed.

The OutRight plug-in is based on Esko’s OutRight technology and guarantees a perfect match between proof, film, or plate, no matter what PDF version, PostScript® RIP, or imaging device is used. OutRight ensures that transparencies, overprints, traps, and vignettes are rendered correctly. This new capability, unique in PDF and PostScript environments, simplifies the accurate proofing of complex multi-ink designs on standard four-color PostScript proofing devices.

The ArtiosCAD export plug-in allows users to write ArtiosCAD files from Illustrator or to paste Illustrator objects directly into ArtiosCAD, including their line type properties. These line type properties can be assigned in Illustrator by using the ArtiosCAD line type swatch library.

With the ArtiosCAD Import plug-in, you can open and place native ArtiosCAD files in Illustrator without any file conversion.

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Sign making plug-ins that add powerful vinyl cutting features programs so you can cut directly out of Illustrator. CoCut plots all your designs with the push of a button. Control your plotter speed, resolution and knife-pressure, on-the-fly.

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Suitcase Fusion, a professional-level font manager for the Mac desktop, eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It combines the best of Suitcase and Font Reserve to provide reliable, hassle-free font management.

This professional font management suitcase for Windows® eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows.

Portfolio Server 8.5 serves as the powerful hub of your creative asset management system, providing the core set of capabilities you need to keep your rich media on the move — for routing to other departments, for final delivery to clients and partners, or for more secure archiving.

Want your digital assets at your fingertips, with thousands of graphics, photos, and other digital files efficiently organized? Whip your assets into shape with Portfolio 8.5, an intuitive, powerful, and expandable system.

A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server X1 ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.

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Fantastic Machines Tile Tools is a set of 21 Photoshop compatible plug-in graphic filters that can be used to create amazing tileable images and textures. Try the demo with seven of the filters fully enabled.

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GenoPal is an easy-to-use color combination and matching tool. It lets users pick a color from an existing palette or any window or picture on their computer. GenoPal will move around in over 16 million different colors to find the ones that match yours. It generates exciting palettes that you can save for later use, read in HEX, or export directly to Adobe Photoshop® or Illustrator.

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Slugger AI CS is a basic automated slug for Illustrator CS that updates important information on printouts.

Embroidery i2 provides the ability to draw objects with Adobe® Illustrator® and convert the objects to stitches within the same window. Since it's a plug-in, Embroidery i2 works on both Intel based Mac's and PC.

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Draw in any scale, dimension artwork with a mouse click, and numerically control size and location of objects or points. Just click-drag with CADtools to make design work easy and elegant — right inside Adobe Illustrator.

Produce and publish in one environment! Create multiple pages in Adobe Illustrator and export or print multiple pages with ease. Version 4 supports PDF, JPEG and EPS export of multiple pages for enhanced web and print design.

Work with isometric, oblique, and perspective drawing tools right inside Adobe Illustrator. Draw lines, planes, cubes and cylinders over an adjustable background grid for high impact presentations.

Add 134 vector-based swatch patterns for design documents. Patterns tile seamlessly and include stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, building materials and much more.

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FontAgent Pro Server brings scalability, speed, security, stability, and simplicity to the creative community and business world. This third-party plug-in repairs, optimizes, and manages licenses for all your fonts, so you spend less time managing font collections, and your users spend more time getting work done.

FontAgent Pro 4 delivers a huge set of font management features to the Mac. You can still repair, optimize, and organize your fonts, and then build font libraries and cascading sets that you can activate, manage, secure, print, and preview.

FontAgent Pro 4 brings powerful font management to Windows. Many Windows users think they are immune to font problems, but by storing all their fonts in the Fonts Control Panel, they waste system resources, bloat font menus, slow system performance, and risk random crashes.

TypeTrax adds the missing link to your digital design projects. Just drag a document into Canto Cumulus and TypeTrax automatically detects and displays the project’s fonts in WYSIWYG mode, so you always have the right fonts.

Overview: Smasher, the performance partner to Mac OS X font manager, gives you the power to look deep inside fonts and suitcases to solve problems fast. Fix font display and printing problems, check basic font integrity, clean up font folder and suitcase nightmares, eliminate application crashes and performance problems, find missing fonts, and move fonts between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Cartography-focused site that includes links to specialized plug-ins of interest to cartographers.

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Mapsoft develops plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat®, Illustrator, InCopy®, InDesign®, PageMaker®, Photoshop, and Reader® as well as for its Mapsoft PDF Workflow Server, which contains the Adobe PDF library.

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QwikMarx is your solution for building more accurate layouts, making it easier for everyone involved to see the dimension marks onscreen or in a printout. With QwikMarx, these marks are displayed for you on the document itself. This means as an ad moves through the stages of publication, each person working on the ad has a precise understanding of what the trim, live, and bleed dimensions are, as well as what the fold dimensions are.

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Because of its strength in roundtripping text, the CopyFlow Gold XTension for Adobe Illustrator is a favorite of translation houses. CopyFlow Gold is most often used to batch export formatted text out of Illustrator documents to a computerized translation system, and then batch import the translated text back into its original page location — all while preserving the typographic formatting. CopyFlow Gold works on entire folders of AI documents, cuts production time, and saves time and money.

BetterHandles combines a tool and palette to make working with Bezier curve handles easier and more powerful. With it, you can select multiple handles and collectively move, extend, rotate, or retract them; extend or retract handles without changing their angles; edit points numerically (anchor, in handle, out handle); convert multiple points between corner and smooth; and much more.

EZConstrain 1.0 is a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. It creates a floating palette through which you can easily view, change, and reset the constrain angle without having to go through the general preferences dialog.

SnapMeasure utilizes Smart Guides for clear, easy snaps. Even without Smart Guides, it can snap to points, handles and paths with a red highlighting ring, making it even easier to be sure you're getting the right value on the first try.

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Concatenate is a plug-in filter for Adobe Illustrator that connects two or more paths into one continuous path. It's especially useful for cleaning up CAD drawings and EPS files that have been converted to Adobe Illustrator or, for example, connecting and filling state/country borders in vector map files.

Adds three tools: Hatchet, cuts through all paths at that point, not just the top path; Saber Saw, fence cuts through all paths that cross the one drawn; Vector Vac, either click on paths or drag through them to delete them.

Adjust the position of a patterned fill within an object or dash pattern along a path. Clicking the arrow buttons will move the dash or pattern by one point. Holding down combinations of modifier keys will make the distance moved longer or shorter.

Convert a selected path's anchor points to corner points, and adjust the path segments so that lines within 20 degrees of vertical and horizontal will be made square.

Quickly draw railroad track plans. Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select turnout size, scale, curve radius, easements, and track centers. Trackwork is automatically joined and held tangent to the connecting track.

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There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Illustrator or InDesign installed on the same computer. Double-clicking a file's icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly resave a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it's a customer file, and the customer won't be able to open the updated file when you email it back. Soxy provides a workaround for this problem on Mac OS X and Windows.

Curvius adds seven new filters to the Illustrator filter menu: Crenellate, Reverse Path Roughen Roulette Simplify Smooth and Straighten.

Kimbo adds 11 new tools in 2 tool groups to Illustrator's tool palette. These tools permit the creation of artwork that would otherwise be difficult or time-consuming to create.

Mesh Utils adds eight filters and one tool to create, color, and otherwise manipulate gradient meshes.

This plug-in allows you to view and finely adjust the coordinates of path points. Path data is also shown.

Tessella goes beyond Illustrator’s rectangular patterns and allows you to create not only rectangular patterns but also rhombic, hexagonal, triangular ones as well.

Create natural-looking textures as Live Effects from gradient-filled art. The textures are created as paths. Play with the settings and the gradient to create an endless selection of beautiful effects.

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The Ubelix plug-in for Illustrator is part of an integrated solution to manage the packaging lifecycle. The solution includes a centralized content management system for copy and graphics assets that enables distributed tracking, reuse, consistency, and certification of assets across projects. The Ubelix plug-in provides Illustrator users with direct real-time access to assets.

Instantly convert any outline into a 3D object. Now with perspective control.

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Add stunning creative filters and "can't do without" workflow tools to simply design projects.. Eight plug-ins include powerful shape editing tools, elegant texturing facilities, intuitive and interactive color editing, and workspace management.

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Scan path and text objects in an Illustrator document, including hidden and locked objects and layers, and to turn off the overprint setting for white objects.

Select art with Transparency, Effects, and Blend modes. Quickly identify objects that may cause problems when printing or flattening.

This plug-in adds three new commands to the view menu: Zoom To, Zoom From, and Fit Selected.

Build a complete RSC or HSC corrugated carton layout in less than a minute.

White OP Detector automatically scans documents when they are opened for paths and text that have been filled or stroked with white overprints.

Point Control provides many user-requested path- and point-editing functions in one easy-to-use floating palette.

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Color Referee is a powerful tool for anyone processing Adobe Illustrator files for Print. This Plug-In automates the time-consuming process of identifying the attributes of color areas and objects in any complex Adobe Illustrator design.

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Reduce the size of images linked to Illustrator documents by eliminating excessive image data. Automatically reduce image resolution, scale images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in Illustrator and the target resolution specified, and re-import them to Illustrator at 100%.

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