If your Illustrator documents are using 3+ GB of RAM, then you're doing something wrong. And it's still 32-bit only on all platforms. Illustrator isn't using the GPU for screen drawing, like Photoshop CS4. Nothing significant has changed in the program's system requirements. That's a pretty good list, so it seems we've got enough for a review. New Gradient Tool with transparency in gradients.Blob Tool for painting outlined strokes.So I guess the big question now is 'what else does Illustrator CS4 have?' Here's a short list of the major new improvements: Illustrator CS4 breaks the single document mold pretty well too, letting you add up to 100 artboards of varying sizes. Well, it's your lucky year, vector pushers-multiple artboards are finally here. Still, there is one missing feature that would come to the minds of the many Illustrator users who have been clamoring for it over the years: the ability to add multiple artboards. As one of those programs that has been honed and honed to near perfection, it's hard to think of something that it really lacks. I wouldn't want to have the job of coming up with new features for Adobe Illustrator, because it certainly wouldn't be easy to dream up something new for version 14 of the industry-standard vector drawing program.
