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• Enhanced Gradient Tool: Now you can modify gradients with controls that appear directly on the selected object, changing and adding colors on the gradient, and changing the gradient position with intuitive controls. • Transparency in Gradients: You can now specify opacity for color stops on a gradient, in addition to applying color. • Appearance panel: You can now perform many operations directly in the Appearance panel without invoking menus or other panels. Select individual Appearance components in the panel, and alter the options. • Smart Guides: Smart Guides now make it easier to snap objects to the centers and edges of other objects Bleed While it's always been possible to create artwork that includes adequate material for bleed, there has been no formal bleed "zone" until Illustrator CS4. Now, you can specify a bleed area that is recognized when printing and exporting an Illustrator file, in much the same way as you can in InDesign. You can snap objects to the bleed lines. To turn off the view of bleed guide lines, choose View > Guides > Hide Guides. To create a defined bleed, you can either specify a bleed value when creating a new document, or add it once the document is open. To add a bleed area to an existing document, choose File > Document Setup and enter the appropriate amount in the bleed fields. By default, all bleed values are linked; changing one value changes them all. But you can unlink the bleed fields and specify a different value for each side of the artboard. Note that in files with multiple artboards, all artboards will have the same bleed value. Setting Bleed Value The bleed fields are linked; enter a value in any field, and all fields are automatically updated. To specify different bleed amounts, click the chain icon (circled) to unlink the fields, and then enter the values in individual fields. Specified Bleed The red line indicates the bleed area around an artboard, which can be invoked during print and export to ensure correct bleed amount on output. In print and Save as PDF dialogs, be sure to check the option to Use Document Bleed Settings under the Marks and Bleed topic. Note that if you check this setting, but have not specified a bleed zone for the document, no bleed is generated; only artwork within the artboard trim area is printed or retained in the resulting PDF. If you have not specified a bleed zone, you can manually enter a bleed value when saving as PDF or when printing, and correct bleed will be included, assuming the chosen print media is large enough. Working with multiple Artboards Long requested (especially by FreeHand users switching to Illustrator), multiple Artboards allow the user to create multiple individual drawing areas within a single document. While this does not mean that Illustrator is now a page layout application (for example, there is no provision for master pages or automatic page numbering, as in InDesign), it provides the ability to hold multi- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 74