{"id":12887,"date":"2008-09-25T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/09\/illustrator-cs4-goodness.html"},"modified":"2008-09-25T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:00:08","slug":"illustrator_cs4_goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/illustrator_cs4_goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator CS4 goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Among the comments on my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/cs4_sweating_the_details.html\">details polished in Photoshop CS4<\/a>, a number of people wished for a similar list for Illustrator &amp; suggested that the Illustrator team start a blog.&#160; As it happens, my friend &amp; former Illustrator PM Mordy Golding runs the great <a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/\">Real World Illustrator blog<\/a>, and he&#8217;s posted some illuminating resources: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/illustrator-cs4-facts.html\">Illustrator CS4 &#8211; The Facts<\/a> is a pretty comprehensive round-up of what&#8217;s new in this release.  (The Appearance panel is killer&#8211;everything I always asked that it be.)<\/li>\n<li>His  <a href=\"http:\/\/rwillustrator.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/interview-david-macy-illustrator.html\">interview with Illustrator PM David Macy<\/a> offers good perspective on the team&#8217;s thinking &amp; discusses other points of polish in CS4. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In the past I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/08\/dear_adobe.html\">said<\/a> &quot;I swear because I care,&quot; and caring a lot about Illustrator, I&#8217;ve directed some well-intentioned swearing in their direction over the years.&#160; I distinctly remember sitting at my desk at Agency.com some nine years ago and hearing a (long since departed) Illustrator PM dismiss my request by saying, &quot;Oh, customers don&#8217;t want multiple pages.&quot;&#160; (At that point I started wondering, &quot;Now, is it still murder if it wasn&#8217;t premeditated, and can I claim temporary insanity&#8230;?&quot;)&#160; That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m delighted that they&#8217;ve both addressed some eternal requests (yay, multiple <s>pages<\/s>&#8211;er, artboards!) and have polished <em>lots<\/em> of existing functionality.&#160; As Mordy writes, <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In the past, Illustrator had a reputation of adding new features, but never really going back to refine them in subsequent versions (i.e.,gradient mesh, 3D, brushes, graphs). With an improved Appearance panel, more capable graphic styles, a revamped gradient feature, better clipping mask behavior, isolation mode, and Smart Guides in CS4, it&#8217;s refreshing to see the team adding much needed polish to some of these &quot;older&quot; features. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The more I&#8217;ve played with the new Illustrator, the more I&#8217;ve found the &quot;little&quot; changes to have a big impact.&#160; I think you will, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the comments on my list of details polished in Photoshop CS4, a number of people wished for a similar list for Illustrator &amp; suggested that the Illustrator team start a blog.&#160; As it happens, my friend &amp; former Illustrator PM Mordy Golding runs the great Real World Illustrator blog, and he&#8217;s posted some illuminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}