Adobe Design Premium, Win, ES 65065284 User Manual

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium 

What’s New

Whether you’re designing a complex infographic or a simple icon, finessing the details of strokes is 
an essential task. Illustrator CS5 includes several powerful features that make working with strokes 
more precise and flexible. 

•  Variable-width strokes. Create strokes with variable widths that you 

can adjust quickly and smoothly at any point, symmetrically or along 
either side. Create complex, custom-width profiles that you can save 
and subsequently apply to any stroke.

•  Dashed line control. Control alignment of dashes on a stroke. Now 

enjoy symmetrical dashes around corners and at the ends of open 
paths, with lengths adjusted automatically to fit.

•  Precise arrowheads. Work

in a completely new way 
with arrowheads. Pick an 
arrowhead shape, and then 
control placement and 
scaling from within the Stroke 
panel. You can even choose 
whether to lock the tip or 
base of the arrowhead to 
the path endpoint.

Work interactively with stroke widths, using your cursor to adjust sides 

independently. Move and edit swells and constrictions freely along a path, 

and save stroke profiles for future use.

Choose to have dashed 

strokes symmetrically 

positioned around 

corners and show 

evenly at endpoints.

Control arrowheads in the Stroke panel, 
and see how you can apply a saved 
width profile to create a tapered 
arrow body.