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- Intel HD Graphics 4600 Series
- Intel HD Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel Iris Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5000 Series
- Intel HD Graphics 6000 Series
- Intel Iris Graphics 6000 Series
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets you design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision, as well as time-saving features like Repeat for Patterns or Global Edits. You can use the graphics you create with Illustrator in any size digital or print format, and be confident they’ll look exactly the way you designed them.
Turn shapes and colors into logos and icons. Create typography, draw freehand, and trace and recolor graphics. Illustrator is vector-based, so your artwork stays crisp even when you scale it up to stadium size.
Work on a desktop or iPad, even offline — your files are synced to the cloud, so you can always pick up where you left off.
Create smarter with features powered by Adobe Sensei AI. Automatically extract colors from a photo and add them to your design, auto-trace a hand-drawn sketch and turn it into a vector graphic, and more.
Work seamlessly with other Creative Cloud apps. Store and manage your documents, graphics, styles, and text in the cloud for easy access. Access thousands of fonts from Adobe Fonts plus Adobe Stock templates. And create a beautiful portfolio site with Adobe Portfolio.
Below is a summary of what’s new in Illustrator.
Overlap and intersect shapes and text for a unique depth to your logos, lettering, and designs.
Easily share local or cloud document links with reviewers and gather feedback to improve your design.
Copy and paste text between InDesign and Illustrator while retaining its formatting and style.
Jumpstart your work and save time by applying one-click effects and styles on graphics and text.
Export your 3D objects to USD and GLTF formats and take them into other 3D apps of your choice.
Experience faster open rates and loading for files that have multiple linked PNG images.
Easy and quick editing of complex paths by reducing the number of anchor points.
All spelling errors highlighted right in the document as soon as you type the text.
Quicksave and export of files. Now, you don’t need to wait to resume work on other tasks.
Troubleshooting support right when you run into an issue while opening or saving files.
Faster rendering when applying Drop Shadow, Blur, and Inner and Outer glow effects.
New self-serve learning resources, such as guided tutorials available within Illustrator to help you get started.
Better product stability, application performance, and user experience.
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Illustrator now offers a new gradient type called Freeform, which provides new color blending capabilities to create richer and photorealistic gradients that look more natural.
Freeform gradient provides you the flexibility to create color stops at any place in your object. You can add, move, and change the color of color stops to seamlessly apply gradients to objects. Creating a freeform gradient fill is a simple and efficient way to create a smooth color gradation.
The Freeform gradient type can be applied in two modes:
For more information, see Gradients.
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Illustrator now provides a new Global Edit option, which lets you edit all similar objects globally in one step. This feature comes handy in situations when multiple copies of an object, such as a logo, are present in the documents. To manually edit all such objects one-by-one can be a difficult and time-consuming task and may lead to errors. The Global Edit option helps you edit them globally in a simple and easy manner. You can also use this option to edit similar groups.
Selecting the objects for global editing and changing the shape of all selected objects.
For more information, see Global Editing.
The Character panel now includes the following new and enhanced options:
A new tab Find More is provided to let you browse thousands of fonts from hundreds of type foundries from within Illustrator, activate them instantly, and use them in your artwork. Activated fonts are available for use in all Creative Cloud applications.
Finding more fonts from Adobe Fonts
A. Show Activated Fonts filter B. Activate fonts icon C. Deactivate fonts icon D. Activation in-progress icon
Fonts tab in Character panel
A. Apply Classification filter B. Favorites filter C. Show Recently Added filter D. Show Activated Fonts filter E. Sample text options F. Sample text size options
For more information, see Fonts.
Illustrator now provides two toolbars – Basic and Advanced. The Basic toolbar contains a set of tools that are commonly used while creating illustrations. All other tools are available within the toolbar drawer that you can open by clicking the Edit Toolbar button (…) at the bottom of the toolbar.
The Advanced toolbar is a full-fledged toolbar that you can open by choosing Windows > Toolbars > Advanced or select Advanced in the drop-down menu of the drawer.
You can also create your own custom toolbars. In any toolbar, you can add, remove, group, or re-order tools according to your requirements.
Customizing a toolbar by adding more tools
For more information, see Tools.
You can now display the current Illustrator document in a full-screen presentation mode. In this mode, the application menu, panels, guides, grids, and selections are hidden. It is a non-editable mode, in which you can only view and browse through artboards using the arrow keys. Use this mode to present your design ideas.
Artboard contents in full-screen presentation mode
For more information, see View artwork in presentation mode.
Illustrator now provides a new view mode called Trim View, which is useful for previewing how a design would look without guides, grids, or elements that extend beyond the edge of the artboard. In this mode, any artwork falling outside the artboard is clipped and all non-printing objects on the canvas, such as grids and guides is hidden. You can continue to create and edit your artwork in this mode.
The original artwork and the trimmed artwork
For more information, see Preview artwork in final output medium.
You can now scale the user interface of Illustrator based on your screen resolution. When you launch Illustrator with updated preference settings, it identifies your screen resolution and adjusts the application scale factor accordingly. You can scale the user interface on your screen using the user interface preferences dialog.
Changing the UI scaling through User Interface preferences
For more information, see Scale the user interface.
The overall zoom performance in Illustrator has been significantly improved. For complex artworks, a temporary raster is now used to enable a faster zooming and panning experience.
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(Only on Windows 64-bit and macOS) When you select the Crop Image option to crop an image on the artboard, Illustrator now identifies the visually significant portions of the selected image. A default cropping box is then displayed based on this identified portion of the image. You can adjust the dimensions of this cropping box if needed. Once you are done, you can click Apply in the Properties panel or press Enter (Windows) or Return (macOS) to crop the image.
Illustrator identifying the visually significant portions of the image for cropping
For more information, see Crop images.
When you choose View > Actual Size, Illustrator now sets the actual size of the display elements irrespective of your monitor size and resolution. When you perform a 100% zoom for a document, the size of every object in the document is the actual representation of the physical size of the object. For example, if you open a new artboard of A4 size and click Actual Size, the artboard size is changed to an actual A4 sheet.
For more information, see Change the view area.
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Illustrator now identifies the best areas to transform your artwork and automatically add pins to the artwork. You can also add or delete pins if you want. This feature is enabled by default when the Puppet Warp tool is selected. To disable this feature, deselect the Enable Content Aware Defaults option by choosing Edit > Preferences > General.
Illustrator identifying the best areas and adding pins
For more information, see Puppet Warp.
When you launch Illustrator, it now displays a Home screen, which includes the following:
Illustrator Home screen
For more information, see Workspaces.
The Properties panel now includes the following new controls:
A glimpse of new controls in Properties panel
For more information, see Properties panel.
In the previous Illustrator versions, when you viewed your artwork as outlines or paths, Illustrator automatically switched from the GPU Preview mode to the CPU Preview mode.
Now, the Outline mode is GPU enabled. Viewing artwork in the GPU Outline mode displays smoother paths and reduces the time it takes to redraw the complex artwork on high-density display screens.
For more information, see Preview artwork as outlines.
You can now search for an image in the Libraries panel and send a request to get the licensed version of an image. Choose the image and do the following:
Licensing an Adobe Stock image
For more information, see Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator.
Illustrator now includes the support for five new South East Asian languages, so your documents can include text composed in these scripts: Thai, Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, and Khmer.
For more information, see Composer for Asian scripts.
In the Asset Export panel, new buttons are provided to let you generate single or multiple assets from a selection.
For more information, see Asset Export panel.
Minimum specifications | |
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Processor | Multicore Intel processor (with 64-bit support) with SSE 4.2 or later or AMD Athlon 64 processor with SSE 4.2 or later. |
Operating system |
Note: Not supported on Windows 10 versions 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, and 2004. |
RAM | 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended) |
Hard disk space | 2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation; SSD recommended |
Monitor resolution | 1024 x 768 display (1920 x 1080 recommended) To use Touch workspace in Illustrator, you must have a touch-screen-enabled tablet/monitor running Windows 10 (Microsoft Surface Pro 3 recommended). Scalable UI Limitations: Minimum monitor resolution required is 1920 x 1080. |
GPU | To enhance Illustrator performance with the GPU Performance feature, your Windows must:
For a list of commonly used GPUs, see Supported GPU devices. Limitations in Outline Mode: Minimum monitor resolution required is 2000 pixels in any dimension. Ensure that you install and update your GPU device drivers. |
Internet | Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* |
GPU devices (video adapters or graphic cards) should meet the minimum GPU requirements in the table above.
Here’s a list of commonly used GPU devices:
NVDIA
INTEL
AMD
Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards. Get the latest GPU drivers:
The following video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:
NVDIA
Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest device drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards. Get the latest GPU card device drivers:
The list of graphics processor cards above is updated as newly released cards are tested. However, Adobe cannot test all cards in a timely manner. If your card is not listed above, but meets the following requirements, you can assume that it works with the latest version of Illustrator:
Minimum specifications | |
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Processor | Multicore Intel processor (with 64-bit support) with SSE 4.2 or later. ARM-based Apple silicon processor |
Operating system |
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RAM | 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended) |
Hard disk space | 3 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation; SSD recommended |
Monitor resolution | 1024 x 768 display (1920 x 1080 recommended) Scalable UI Limitations: Minimum resolution required is 1920 x 1080. |
GPU | To use GPU Performance, your Mac should have a minimum of 1024 MB of VRAM (2 GB recommended), and your computer must support Metal.
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Internet | Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* |
The following video adapter series support the new Windows GPU Performance features in Illustrator:
NVIDIA
Important: Microsoft Windows may not detect the availability of the latest device drivers for NVIDIA GPU cards.
Get the latest GPU card device drivers:
– Quadro series
– Other series
Minimum specifications | |
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Processor | Multicore Intel processor (with 64-bit support) with SSE 4.2 or later. ARM-based Apple silicon processor |
Operating system |
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RAM | 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended) |
Hard disk space | 3 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation; SSD recommended |
Monitor resolution | 1024 x 768 display (1920 x 1080 recommended) Scalable UI Limitations: Minimum resolution required is 1920 x 1080. |
GPU | To use GPU Performance, your Mac should have a minimum of 1024 MB of VRAM (2 GB recommended), and your computer must support Metal.
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Internet | Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* |
* NOTICE TO USERS:
Adobe Illustrator CC is available in the following languages:
* Arabic and Hebrew supported in a Middle Eastern version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and an English interface; also in a North African French (Français*) version with full right-to-left language support, Arabic/Hebrew features, and a French interface.
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