ADOBE® ILLUSTRATOR® 8.0 TRYOUT VERSION - READ ME
WHAT IS ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR?
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard illustration software. Illustrator 8.0 is packed with powerful, flexible features that can help you transform your ideas into stunning graphics for print, presentations, and the Web. Here is a sample of the features you can rely on to produce high-quality graphics with ease and efficiency.
Integrate smoothly with other Adobe products
• Common Adobe components, such as the Actions, Color, Links, Layers and Navigator palettes
• Award-winning Adobe user interface that offers common tools, menus, shortcuts, and palettes across Adobe's professional graphics programs
• Ability to preserve your illustration layers when you export Illustrator files in Adobe Photoshop® format
• Broad-based file format support, including EPS, PDF, Photoshop, DXF (import), CorelDRAW!™ (import), Macromedia® FreeHand™ (import), and many more
Meet tough deadlines with superb results
• Actions palette for automating and sharing common illustration tasks, such as adding drop shadows or embossing an object
• Links palette to monitor linked files and ensure proper handoff to your service provider or printer
• Navigator palette to scroll through or zoom in and out of illustrations quickly
• Free Transform tool to scale, skew, rotate, reflect, and apply perspective
• Eyedropper tool to sample text, fill, or stroke attributes and instantly apply them to other objects
• Up to 200 levels of undo for carefree experimentation
Express your creative ideas with ease
• Pre-designed or custom-made art brushes to paint artwork along an editable path
• Scatter brushes to disperse artwork randomly along an editable path
• Blend tool to automatically blend any number of different objects and colors along an editable path
• Unique Gradient Mesh tool to blend colors smoothly in multiple directions and create never-before-seen smoothly shaded artwork
• Photo Crosshatch filter to transform photos into textured sketches
Enjoy an intuitive, easy-to-learn tool set
• New Pencil tool to draw and edit on screen as easily as you do on paper
• Smooth and Erase tools to smooth out unwanted bumps in a path or erase part of the path
• Bounding box editing to resize objects easily and quickly
• 800 brush designs, 160 pre-scripted actions, template files, pattern libraries, fonts, clip art, and stock photographs to get you up and running quickly
• Hands-on tutorials, movies, online help, and other included learning resources to get you up to speed in a flash
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 8.0 TRYOUT
The Adobe Illustrator 8.0 tryout version includes most of the creative features of the full application. Because the tryout version is intended for demonstration purposes only, you cannot save, copy/paste, drag/drop, export, or print out of the program. The tryout application also does not include third-party color libraries, spelling and hyphenation dictionaries, Photoshop filters, sample art, fonts, clip art, action sets, tutorials, and movies.
Installing the Tryout version
To install the tryout version of Illustrator, double-click setup.exe (Windows) or the installer icon in the Adobe Illustrator 8.0 Tryout folder (Mac OS) of the Adobe Illustrator Tryout installation files. Then follow the instructions for installing Illustrator.
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