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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS5-ME

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Discover the new Adobe Illustrator CS5 Middle Eastern, and explore many new paths with the most essential vector tool.

Design with powerful creative tools
Take advantage of exceptional precision and power to create distinctive vector artwork. Combine highly controllable drawing tools with expressive natural brushes and dramatic effects to make unique, striking designs.

Work smoothly and efficiently
Speed up your workflow with innovations that encourage efficiency. Get the job done with purpose and agility using shortcuts and time-savers to take multiple ideas to multiple outputs.

Deliver virtually anywhere
Incorporate vector artwork into essentially any project and deliver resolution-independent graphics across media. Enjoy tighter-than-ever integration with other Adobe products and go anywhere your creativity takes you.

Enrich your work with enhanced language features
Explore more possibilities with advanced language features for Arabic, Greek and Hebrew within your ‘own language' user interface, including spell checking, bi-directional text flow, typographic controls (kashidas, ligature, diacritics...) and advanced importing and exporting options.

Enhanced features for Middle Eastern language users
Adobe Illustrator CS5-ME software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. It provides industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

System requirements for Adobe Illustrator "CS5-ME" software is now:

Windows
• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection required for online service

Macintosh
• Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
• 1GB of RAM
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection required for online service.

Text Settings
Illustrator CS5-ME comes with special settings for typing and laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:
- Possibility to use Arabic, Farsi or Hindi digits
- Use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification
- Set vowels /diacritics positioning
- Ligature option
- Justify text in three possible ways to get the results you want (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)
- Control your text in Illustrator CS5-ME with a dictionary for Arabic and spell check your Arabic text to avoid typos with a choice of Rules, such as Strick Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
-Depending on your system requirements, control your text in Adobe Illustrator CS5-ME with a dictionary and hyphenation module for Hebrew.

Font Support
Get linguistic support for Middle Eastern languages in Illustrator CS5-ME, along with the support of a wide array of Unicode Fonts including most fonts shipped with the OS as well as a large number of third party fonts widely used by graphic designers.

Additional Fonts
Illustrator CS5-ME supports most fonts shipped with the OS as well as a large number of third party fonts widely used by graphic designers in the Middle Eastern regions.
Illustrator CS5-ME installs one additional font that facilitates your work in Middle Eastern languages: WinSoft Pro, which is available in four styles: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.

Bi-directional Text flow
In Illustrator CS5-ME, the notion of right-to-left behaviour applies to several objects: Story, Paragraph and Character. You can easily mix Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right Words, Paragraphs and Stories in a document

Dictionary and Hyphenation Module
Illustrator CS5-ME comes with a comprehensive dictionary for Arabic allowing you to spell check Arabic text with a choice of rules, like Strict Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
Illustrator CS5-ME comes with a Dictionary and Hyphenation Module for Hebrew.

Find / Replace
You can search for and change specific occurrences of Middle Eastern text. Illustrator includes a "Ignore Accent" option. When checked, the user can search for a string of text whether it contains some ME accents or not.

Import/Export Options for ME characters
Illustrator CS5-ME includes improved import and export options for RTF, Unicode, Word, Freehand, CorelDraw, PDF, SVG, PSD, EPS, EMF and DXF/DWG files including Middle Eastern text.
Encodings has been added for Middle Eastern characters to facilitate text import and export, Save for Web and DXF/DWG file import.

The new 'CS5 ME' edition of Illustrator includes an extensive list of Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design and Internet publishing features.