Adobe Illustrator CS6 software is the industry’s premier vector-drawing environment for creating graphics that scale across media. Capture your vision with shapes, colour, effects, & typography while working efficiently & moving easily among Adobe creative applications. Experiment freely with perspective, image tracing, transparent gradients, patterns, brushes, & strokes--all driven by the Mercury Performance System so you can make fast work of your most complex designs. New--Mercury Performance System Work with precision, speed & rock-solid stability on large, complex files due to native 64-bit support on Mac OS & Windows with RAM & overall performance optimisation. New--Image Trace Confidently convert raster images to editable vectors with a powerful tracing engine. Get clean lines, accurate fitting, & reliable colour results using simple, intuitive controls. New--Pattern Creation Easily create seamlessly tiled vector patterns. Experiment freely with different types of repeating patterns that can be edited at any time for maximum design flexibility. Enhanced--Gradients & Transparency Interact with gradients directly on your object, defining the dimension of elliptical gradients, editing colours, & adjusting opacity. Even create gradients on strokes & meshes. Sophisticated Vector Drawing Tools Create distinctive designs with precise shape-building tools, fluid & painterly brushes, & advanced path controls. Integration with Other Adobe Solutions Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output, thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software, such as Adobe Photoshop, In Design, After Effects, Acrobat & more. Multiple Artboards Organise & view up to 100 artboards of varying sizes overlapping or on a grid. Quickly add, delete, reorder & name. Save, export & print independently or together. Crisp Graphics & Text for Web & Mobile Create & align vector objects precisely on the files pixel grid for clean, sharp raster graphics. Use text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames. Perspective Drawing Use perspective grids to draw shapes & scenes in accurate one, two or three-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth & distance. In-panel Appearance Editing Edit object characteristics directly in the Appearance panel, eliminating the need to open fill, stroke or effects panels. Industry-Standard Graphic File Formats Work with almost any type of graphic file--including PDF, EPS, FXG, Photoshop (PSD), TIFF, GIF, JPEG, SWF, SVG, DWG, DXF & more. Adobe PDF File Creation Tools Create more secure, multi-page, graphic-rich PDF files with Illustrator layers retained. Share files confidently with service providers knowing that Illustrator supports PDF/X standards.