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Avoid color output surprises such as unexpected spot colors, unwanted overprinting, overprints that don't overprint, white overprinting, and CMYK blacks in text and placed files.

Support for bleeds
Quickly set up your artboards for bleeds with the new Bleeds document attribute. You can choose to work with bleeds when you open a new document or add them later in the Document Setup dialog box.

Live Color for print and prepress
For reliable spot color printing, use Color Reduction tools in the Live Color panel to quickly find and convert colors in your artwork to a defined number of specific colors.

DeviceN colorspace
Place duotone or separated Photoshop images in Illustrator and preserve the file's native color space with DeviceN support. Use multicomponent and HiFi color, raster effects, transparency, and gradient meshes with confidence that your artwork will separate correctly.

LAB spot colors
Create LAB spot colors and use predefined spot colors from the Toyo, PANTONE®, DIC, and HKS libraries.

Separations
Print color separations using either host-based or in-RIP options and optimize output directly in the application, controlling screen angle, ruling, and dot size for each plate.

Intuitive printing interface
Enjoy consistent results with an intuitive, comprehensive printing interface that provides optimized presets for a wide variety of devices.

Page tile overlap control
Easily and reliably print oversize documents to standard desktop printers by controlling the overlap between tiled pages.

Fit To Page command
Print large designs on standard paper sizes using the Fit To Page command or custom scale options. Scale dimensions with precision to three decimal places.

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Web and interactive tools

Integration with Adobe Flash
Import native Illustrator files into Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional software, or copy and paste artwork from Illustrator to Flash, with paths, anchor points, gradients, clipping masks, and symbols intact. Layers, groups, and object names are also preserved.

Live Color for web and interactive
Quickly explore, apply, and control color variations for web and interactive designs. Easily create multiple versions for any web prototype or interactive design.

Symbols for Flash
Use Symbols to animate repeated objects while keeping file sizes small. Define and name symbol object attributes, and preserve these properties when you take the artwork to Flash CS4 Professional for further editing.

Web and mobile device export
Easily export using the Save for Web and Devices dialog box, which lets you choose from HTML, SWF, GIF, and JPEG formats, along with color count, compression, file size, mobile output, and more.

Adobe Device Central CS4
Create rich graphic content for mobile devices and deliver engaging experiences to billions of subscribers with Adobe Device Central CS4. Design, preview, and test mobile content with this innovative visual testing tool that you can find within the Save for Web and Devices dialog box.

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Tools for automation

Automated processing
Make tools like Live Trace even more efficient by automatically batch-processing images in Adobe Bridge while continuing to work in Illustrator CS4.

Actions
Save time by recording frequently performed tasks as actions, which you can manage in the Actions panel.

Industry-leading scripting support
Extend the capabilities of Illustrator to automate repeated production tasks, build your own feature capabilities, or enforce a specific workflow by writing custom JavaScript, AppleScript, or Microsoft Visual Basic scripts.

Dynamic, data-driven graphics
Quickly create custom artwork variations using scripts to connect graphic variables to unique data.

Ability to save selections
Streamline a range of production tasks by saving complex selections so you can quickly reload them later.

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