Previously, you had to use a complicated method of setting up masks to simulate transparency. Gradient Transparency: The second big feature request from Illustrator users for years has been the ability to use transparency in gradients.
When exporting your artwork from Illustrator, you have the option of saving each artboard as a single mutli-page PDF file, or as single page files in a numbered sequence. While not a huge feature, it’s nice to be able to work in Illustrator with a completely accurate artboard and not have to “fake” a bleed area. Also included as part of the new artboard feature is the ability to set bleed amounts to your Illustrator documents, much like you can in InDesign documents. Illustrator CS4 allows up to 100 artboards in each document, and you can even create an artboard inside another artboard, allowing you to easily export just a piece of a composition. If you choose the artboard with the black only version of the logo, the Pantone colors used in the logo on another artboard are not brought into your document, keeping your swatches panel free of the clutter of unused colors. And when you place the logo file into InDesign, you choose which artboard (via InDesign’s Place options) you wish to have in your document. With Illustrator CS4, you have a single logo file containing all five versions of the logo. The most minor of changes to the logo would require you to edit five files, and then update five different files in every InDesign document they were used in. Before Illustrator CS4, you probably had an Illustrator version of client X’s logo in full color, another file for the logo in Pantone colors, another version for solid black, yet another version solid white (for placing on dark backgrounds), and finally, another version in grayscale (for placing in B&W ads, etc.). So what’s the big deal you ask? Read on… Let’s look at an example of why this is so great. Multiple Artboards: Think of multiple Artboards as essentially multi-page documents, much like a page layout program, except that it allows you to have different size artboards within your document. That is, unless you want two of the most sought-after features that Illustrator users have been begging for since at least version 8.Īdobe Illustrator CS4 brings those two huge features and a whole lot of existing feature enhancements to Illustrator users who’ve been patiently waiting.
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