What's new in Adobe Illustrator SDK CS6
May 10, 2012
- New features:
- Pattern creation - This release updates and simplifies pattern creation. The SDK samples have been updated to use the new API and creation techniques.
- Live Trace enhancements - Tracing functionality has been updated to use vectorization, and the AITracingSuite has been replaced by the AIVectorizationSuite. New versions of the tracing snippets (LiveTrace and LiveColor) in the SnippetRunner SDK sample demonstrate the use of the new suite and techniques.
- Gradients on strokes - The ability to apply gradients to strokes is demonstrated by a new snippet (SnpGradient) in the SnippetRunner SDK sample.
- ADM removed:
- Plug-ins must be ported to some other UI framework to run in Illustrator CS6. Note that in Mac OS, ADM used the older Carbon framework, while the UI now uses the newer Cocoa framework.
- Sample code changes:
- SnippetRunner Code Snippets: To demonstrate new features, added new functionality to snpPattern
- A new sample plugin, Empty Panel, demonstrates the usage of new APIs for accessing the empty panel. The empty panel is intended to be used by developers wishing to create a plugin UI using third party UI frameworks.
- Removal of ADM from the SDK. This includes the conversion of existing CS5 SDK samples to use a Flash-based UI, which is a possible alternative for ADM. For details, see "Creating a Flash UI for Plug-ins" in "Adobe Illustrator CS6 Programmer's Guide".
- All samples support 64bit