Wiley Illustrator CS4 Bible 978-0-470-34519-1 Manuel D’Utilisation

t’s always exciting to see what’s new in new versions of your favorite 
software. Longtime Adobe Illustrator fans certainly have a great interest 
in learning about the new features in Illustrator CS4, but those changes 

aren’t of interest only to people who’ve used Illustrator extensively in the 
past. New users and people who currently use other products instead of 
Illustrator also want to know if this new version adds must-have features.

In this chapter, I introduce several features that have been added to 
Illustrator CS4 as well as some changes that make existing features easier to 
use or simply more powerful. Fortunately, Illustrator CS4 maintains a strong 
connection with the past so that you don’t have to relearn much at all. Still, 
many of the changes that have been made are important ones that you’ll find 
useful and fun. Let’s dig in!

For 13 versions (give or take a few depending on what you consider a ver-
sion), Illustrator has supported a grand total of one page. Yes, there are 
clever workarounds (page tiling, resetting ruler origins, etc.) and even a 
plug-in from a third party that cleverly automates layers to simulate multiple 
pages, but the reality is that Illustrator was always a single-page application. 
That is until version CS4. In Illustrator CS4, you finally get multiple pages.

In order to prevent confusion with Adobe’s awesome page-layout applica-
tion, Adobe InDesign, the powers that be at Adobe have decided to call these 
new multiple pages multiple Artboards. Technically, Adobe is totally right in 
doing so here because Illustrator has always had the Artboard metaphor, not 
a page metaphor. And I’m going to call them multiple Artboards because 
everyone I know at Adobe who works on Illustrator will yell at me if I don’t, 
but we know the truth: They’re multiple pages.

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