Adobe®
Illustrator® CS3 13.0.1 Read Me
Minimum system requirements
Windows®
- Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions only)
- 512MB of RAM minimum (1GB recommended)
- 2.0GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
- 1,024x768 minimum monitor resolution with 16-bit or greater video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services
Mac OS
- PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS® X v.10.4.8
- 512MB of RAM minimum (1GB recommended)
- 2.5GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
- 1,024x768 minimum monitor resolution with 16-bit or greater video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services
* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe® Stock Photos and Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees. For details, visit www.adobe.com.
- Before you install Illustrator, close all of your Adobe applications and any browser windows.
- Do one of the following:
- Insert DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. (If the installer does not launch automatically, then double-click Setup.exe (Windows) or Setup (Mac OS) at the root level of your disk to start the installation process.)
- If you downloaded the software from the web, then open the folder and double-click Setup.exe (Windows) or Setup (Mac OS), and then follow the on-screen instructions.
IMPORTANT: After original installation in order to install additional components or reinstall your software, you will need access to the original installer (CD, DVD or the download from the web). Before you begin additional installations or reinstallations, please make sure that the installer is in the same drive or location that it was in during the original installation.
Note: By default, templates, sample files, and a reduced set of fonts are installed with Illustrator CS3. You’ll find additional fonts, stock photo and clip art content, as well as back-up copies of the installed fonts, in the Goodies folder of the installation DVD.
- Before you uninstall Illustrator, close all of your Adobe applications and any browser windows.
- Do one of the following:
- In Windows, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Change/Remove, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
- In Mac OS, please use the new uninstall functionality. We strongly recommend that you do not manually drag applications to the trash to uninstall them. To safely uninstall, double-click the product installer in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, then select Remove Components and follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: Before uninstalling you may want to deactivate Illustrator CS3 by choosing Help > Deactivate and following the on-screen instructions, assuming you will be installing Illustrator on a different machine. You may run up to two activated copies of the software at any one time.
Illustrator 13.0.1, which is recommended for all Illustrator CS3 users, addresses issues related to overall performance and reliability in several key areas, including fixes for: LiveColor, PSD import, Chinese IME, printing, Graphic Styles, color management, transparency, and Live Effects.
• Choose Activate from the Help menu and follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: If you decide to purchase a different product than you installed for the trial, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the software. For example, if you download and install a trial of Adobe® Creative® Suite 3 Design Premium, but you decide to purchase only Adobe® Illustrator®, you will need to uninstall the trial version of the Suite before installing the standalone version of Illustrator that you purchased. For more detailed information, visit www.adobe.com/go/tbinfo
Volume licensing customers cannot purchase from a trial directly. After evaluating a Creative Suite 3 product, you must uninstall the trial and install the product using the volume licensing media and serial number. Refer to the “Uninstall your software” section of this document for instructions. Please contact your reseller or the authorized Adobe licensing center to place an order for a volume license. To find a reseller in your area, go to http://partners.adobe.com/resellerfinder/na/reseller.jsp.
Adobe software may include electronic license (e-license) management technology to ensure compliance with the Product License Agreement. When present, this technology prompts you to verify the license of your product within 30 days after you start it for the first time. If prompted, verification is mandatory.
The on-screen prompt may ask you to activate the software. This verification process does not collect, transmit, or use any personally identifiable information. To learn more, visit the Adobe web site at
http://www.adobe.com/activation.
Activate software:
If the Activation dialog box is not already open, choose Help > Activate.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: If you want to install the product on a different computer, you must first deactivate the software on your computer. To deactivate, choose Help > Deactivate.When you install your software, be sure to register to get up-to-date product information, training, newsletters and invitations to Adobe events and seminars. You will also receive a complimentary benefit for registering.
There are additional fonts on the installation disk. For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.
Installed Fonts
Several OpenType fonts are included with Illustrator CS3. A subset of these fonts are installed by Illustrator for your convenience. Specific font faces from the following font families are installed:
- Adobe® Caslon™ Pro
- Adobe® Garamond® Pro
- Arno™ Pro
- Bell Gothic Std
- Bickham Script® Pro
- Birch® Std
- Blackoak® Std
- Brush Script Std
- Chaparral® Pro
- Charlemagne® Std
- Cooper Std
- Eccentric Std
- Garamond Premier Pro
- Giddyup® Std
- Hobo Std
- Kozuka Gothic® Pro
- Kozuka Mincho® Pro
- Letter Gothic Std
- Lithos® Pro
- Mesquite® Std
- Minion® Pro
- Myriad® Pro
- Nueva® Std
- OCR-A Std
- Orator Std
- Poplar® Std
- Prestige Elite Std
- Rosewood® Std
- Stencil Std
- Tekton® Pro
- Trajan® Pro
Those fonts are installed in the following locations:
• Mac OS X: [startup drive]/Library/Fonts/
• Windows: [startup drive]\Windows\Fonts\
- Adobe® Myungio Std
- Adobe® Ming Std
- Adobe® Song Std
Those Chinese and Korean fonts are installed in the following locations:
• Mac OS X: [startup drive]/Application/Adobe Illustrator CS3/<inside Package>/Required/Fonts/
• Windows: [startup drive]\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Support Files\Required\Fonts\
Additional Fonts
The following fonts and accompanying documentation are not installed, but included in the Documentation folder on the Illustrator CS3 product DVD (in the case of retail customers), or in the packaged download file (if you downloaded Illustrator CS3 from Adobe Store). For trial customers, this additional content will not be available until after purchase.
- Bernhard Modern Std
- Caflisch Script® Pro
- Kozuka Gothic® Std
- Kozuka Mincho® Std
- News Gothic Std
- Wood Type Ornaments Std
- Ryo® Display Std
- Ryo® Gothic Std
- Ryo® Text Std
- Adobe Fangsong Std
- Adobe Heiti Std
- Adobe Kaiti Std
You will also find the fonts listed in the installed set above, but with a number of additional font faces not included in the installation. Anyone who cares about getting all of the available fonts should definitely take the time to install the additional set.
Please refer to the Illustrator support page for additional late-breaking information and known issues about Illustrator CS3
- Vista specific: Please note that if you are running as a limited user, you will not be allowed to save Illustrator content libraries (swatches, brushes, graphic styles, and symbols) to any read-only location including the default system presets folder. Attempting to save in a read-only location will appear to work, but Illustrator will not save the file and will not provide a warning that the resulting library has not been saved. Saving to folders with limited user write access will work as expected.
- PDF: The calculation of the PDF MediaBox changed between Illustrator CS and CS2. In CS, the PDF
MediaBox values were automatically adjusted to accommodate all of the artwork in the document,
even that which extended outside of the art board. In CS2, the PDF box values are
constrained to the size of the document’s art board (or are set relative to it, such as when saving
PDF with pagemarks and/or bleed values). If you have content outside of the art board which
you wish to have visible when opening your Illustrator CS2 or CS3 documents into Acrobat, on Copy-
Paste as PDF in other applications, or when placing into an aggregate application such as
InDesign, you must increase the size of your art board to contain all of the desired content.
- Crop Area Tool: For Web, Video and Mobile Document Startup Profiles (see New Document Dialog, and New Document Startup profiles for more detail), please note that the art board is set close to the Illustrator maximum size, and your selected document size is actually defined by a Crop Area. This provides you with more flexibility on what you can actually define as your visible viewport, allowing you to move the Crop Area, or to define additional Crop Areas (refer to the Crop Area tool video or the documentation for more details). Please note that for these document types, your default print preset will automatically switch to a preset which prints only what is visible in the Crop Area.
- 'Enable Missing Glyph Protection' setting under Type preferences: Un-checking this option will enable you to use non-standard Unicode compliant fonts. Some very specific glyphs (e.g. certain Greek and Indian fonts) will not display with this option enabled. Note that Illustrator CS and CS2 also had this behavior enabled by default, but did not provide the option to turn it off. This new CS3 setting will now allow you to work with these specific glyph sets.
- Page position/scaling does not work correctly with Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer: If you print to an XPS print driver, page positioning and scaling does not work correctly when you change the media size from Illustrator's Print User Interface. The resulting page content may not be centered and scaling may be incorrect. However, if you select "Defined By Driver" in Illustrator's Print User Interface media size list, and set the size by in the actual driver by clicking Setup > choose MS XPS Doc Writer > Preferences > Advanced > and choosing from the desired size in the pull down, when you go back to the Illustrator Print User Interface, it should center/scale correctly.
- Composite font: Illustrator CS3 supports Composite font feature only for Japanese. Chinese and Korean are not supported..
Customer Service
Adobe Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com for your region or country and click on Contact.
Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more.
If you are having any issues with installing or uninstalling any of your Creative Suite 3 applications, please try rebooting your system prior to contacting Support.