Illustrator CC 2017 (12 Months)

Meet the most powerful and connected Illustrator ever. The new Touch Type tool gives you even more control over type: Move, scale, and rotate individual characters knowing you can change the font or copy at any time. And with Illustrator CC, you can share work directly from within the application and sync colors from Adobe Kuler. Your entire creative world, together in one place. Only in Creative Cloud.

NEW in v2017

Create pixel-perfect artwork
Draw paths and shapes that seamlessly align to the pixel grid. Align existing artwork with a single click or by using simple transformations. Preserve Live Shapes and rounded corners, maintain alignment when scaling and rotating objects, and manually nudge segments and end points into perfect alignment.

Find fonts faster
Mark individual fonts as favorites to quickly find the one you need. Filter your list to see fonts you've recently used, find other fonts that are similar to one you like, or find fonts based on classifications like serif or handwritten.

Work easier with glyphs
Use alternate glyphs for any character by simply selecting the character and choosing from an in-context menu. View and insert your most recently used glyphs, and sort glyphs for faster browsing.

Get started faster
Jumpstart design projects with easy access to presets as well as free Adobe Stock templates that you can access right from File > New.

Stock templates and search
Adobe Stock marketplace includes new design templates and now you can drag and drop Stock search results from your Library panel right into your canvas and start using them right away. Plus, you can right-click on a stock image to do a visual search for similar images.

New Creative Cloud Libraries capabilities
Libraries in Illustrator now support Adobe Stock templates. Plus, Send Link has been updated so you can now share read-only access to a public library. When you follow a library, it appears in your Library panel and updates automatically.

Creative Cloud Assets improvements
Archive and restore all your assets stored in Creative Cloud, including the ones in your Creative Cloud Libraries, assets created with CC desktop products, and mobile projects.

Introducing Typekit Marketplace
Now you can buy fonts from some of the industry's biggest names and use them in your Illustrator projects. Typekit uses its font sync and web technologies to deliver your Marketplace fonts anywhere you need them.

Font and text enhancements
See a live preview by hovering over the font list with selected text, place loaded text inside a container, or fill a container with placeholder text to better visualize your designs. Easily work with type objects that have a common font family but different styles, and vice-versa.

Zoom to selection
View and edit faster now that you can zoom into anything youve selected an active point, a segment, a path, or an object.

Modern user experience
A flat UI and new icons for tools and panels offer a cleaner look and help you focus on your artwork.

And so much more
Also included: Ability to archive, restore, and see version history for all your assets stored in your Creative Cloud Libraries, assets created with CC desktop products, and mobile projects.

NEW in v2015

Add a fresh image or graphic to your composition from the new Adobe Stock service in no time right from within Illustrator. Keep your favorite assets handy with improved Creative Cloud Libraries. Pan, zoom and scroll up to 10 times faster with new performance improvements. View and finesse the finest details in your most demanding artwork with 10 times higher zoom magnification. Quickly create custom graphs, charts and infographics with Creative Cloud Charts. And now you can recover unsaved work when Illustrator crashes, so youll never lose a file again.

NEW FEATURES

Live Shapes: Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles
Rectangles now have quickly modifiable corners, including independent radius control. Corner attributes are retained if you scale and rotate your rectangle. Now Illustrator remembers your work width, height, rotation, corner treatment so you can return to your original shape.

Pen tool preview
See the path youre drawing before you drop your next point. A rubberband-like line from your last anchor point to the tip of the pen appears as you draw. Visualize where the next curve will go as you plot your next point and spend less time cleaning up paths.

Anchor point enhancements
Fine adjustment of curves is now easier. New anchor point controls allow unequal or different-direction handles to be dragged as you draw to control the smoothness of each segment. You can even change a corner point to smooth without ruining your shape.

Snap to pixel, point, and grid updates
When snapping is turned on, your anchor points align perfectly to your choice of pixel, grid, or point. But your anchor handles should not. Theyre now disengaged from snapping so you can preserve the precision of your curves and achieve fine control while editing.

Close paths with better control
Close your paths with precision and predictability. As you complete a drawing, you now have more control connecting the end and start points. Reposition your closing point or choose to break the direction lines to adjust the closing curve exactly as you wish.

Windows GPU acceleration
New GPU acceleration for Windows lets you work faster on Windows 7 or 8 computers. This feature requires an Adobe-certified NVIDIA graphics card with at least 1GB of VRAM.

Typekit missing fonts workflow
When you open a document, missing fonts are now automatically replaced. Illustrator CC searches the Typekit desktop font library and if the missing font is available it will sync through Creative Cloud with just a click.

And so much more
Also includes: Improvements to the Missing Fonts dialog and enhancements to text-related layout and typing features.

FEATURES

NEW A more connected Illustrator
Illustrator CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. You can use Sync Colors, Sync Settings, and Save to Cloud to keep your color themes, workspace, and projects organized across multiple computers. And Creative Cloud is integrated with Behance, so you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world. Learn more

NEW Touch Type tool
Design with type in a powerful new way. Characters can now be manipulated like individual objects. Experiment with moving, scaling, and rotating, knowing you can change the font or edit at any time. And you can now use multitouch devices as well as a mouse or stylus.

NEW Images in brushes
Paint with a brush made from a photo. Art, Pattern, and Scatter brushes can contain raster images, so you can create complex organic designs quickly with simple brush strokes. As with all Illustrator brushes, your strokes can be reshaped and modified at will.

NEW Font search
Find the perfect font fast. In the Character panel, type a style such as 'bold' or 'italic,' a font family, or any other part of a font name. You'll get a filtered view that lets you see just the fonts that match your criteria.

COMING SOON Sync Fonts
Sync Fonts part of Creative Cloud will change the way you work with type. Quickly find the perfect font from the growing library of Adobe Typekit fonts, sync it to your system, and have it immediately available for use.

NEW Multiple-file place
Import multiple files into your Illustrator layout at the same time and with new control. Now you can define the location and scale of your files images, graphics, and text and use new thumbnail views to see where each file will go and how big it will be.

NEW CSS extraction
Hand-coding web elements such as icons and patterns can be frustrating. Now, create websites faster by letting Illustrator generate CSS code for you, even for a complete logo that includes gradients. Copy and paste the code right into your web editor.

NEW Sync Colors
Capture color themes out in the world with the Adobe Kuler iPhone app. Share your themes and explore thousands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they'll be accessible immediately in Illustrator.

NEW Area and point type conversion
Instantly switch between area type and point type. Text object conversion is now instantaneous so you can design freely in your text layouts. And you can work just as easily with imported type, switching formats at any time.

NEW Auto corners for pattern brushes
Get the corners you want without extra steps. Create pattern brushes swiftly with auto-generated corners that perfectly match the rest of the stroke. No need to tediously create special corners for your sharp angles.

NEW On-art Free Transform
Get hands-on with the power of the Free Transform tool. Move, scale, and rotate objects directly using a touchscreen device. Or use a mouse or other pointer right on the artboard to transform objects in a more immediate and intuitive way.

NEW Behance Integration
Save work directly from Illustrator CC to Behance to showcase finished projects or share a work in progress. As you perfect your work and upload new versions, get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.

NEW Sync Settings
Work the way you like on any of your computers Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace settings to Creative Cloud including Illustrator preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries so they go where you go.

NEW Faster type performance
Work faster with type, even in your most complicated, type-intensive designs. Text that wraps around objects and type that is set in multiple connected text frames now refreshes quickly when you make a change.

NEW File packaging
File packaging automatically gathers and saves the necessary fonts, linked graphics, and a package report into a single folder. Efficiently hand off Illustrator files to production or keep your working files organized by packaging up your project.

NEW Unembedded images
Easily unembed images that have been placed and embedded in an Illustrator file. You can quickly make images available for editing or extract files embedded in artwork you received from someone else. Links to the image files are created automatically.

NEW Expanded Links panel options
Get more complete information about any placed file in the Links panel. All of your placed elements images, graphics, and text appear in the Links panel, where you can track them with greater control than ever before.

Sophisticated vector drawing tools
Create compelling vector graphics for print, web, mobile, and video. With precise shape-building tools, painterly brushes, and advanced path controls, you can experiment freely with intricate shapes, complex effects, and elegant typography.

Mercury Performance System
Work with precision, speed, and rock-solid stability on large, complex files. With native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows, the Adobe Mercury Performance System lets you access all your RAM to easily open, save, and export large files and preview intricate designs.

Multiple artboards
Organize and view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes, overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder, and name. Save, export, and print independently or together.

Gradients and transparency
Interact with gradients directly on objects, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colors, and adjusting opacity. Apply gradients to strokes along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself. Even create gradients on meshes.

Variable-width strokes
Draw strokes with variable widths, quickly and smoothly adjusting at any point. Create and save width profiles and apply them to any stroke, or use variable-width presets.

Crisp graphics for web and mobile
Create and align vector objects precisely on your document's pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for precise control over individual text frames.

Image Trace
Convert raster images to editable vectors with a powerful tracing engine that provides exceptional control over colors and shapes. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, and reliable results using simple, intuitive options.

Pattern creation
Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different kinds of repeating vector patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility.