With these improvements, we hope you’re able to get to work - and complete all your desired tasks - quicker than ever before, leaving more room for creative iteration and finding the best layout for the job, whatever the job.Īdobe Illustrator on Apple Silicon M1 performance gainsįor users on M1-based Macs, today’s release of Illustrator means the tool will launch and load files considerably faster than before, and allow you to go about your workflow with ease. Scroll performance on a text-heavy document of 100 pages improved 78 percent.Opening a graphics-heavy file is now 185 percent faster.When it comes to your workflow, InDesign users can expect a huge jump in performance, for example: Now, if you’re running InDesign on an M1-based Mac, you’ll see some lightning-fast improvements when it comes to opening and working with your files. Whether you rely on InDesign to lay out a print publication or to publish digital content like eBooks, PDFs, magazines, and more, we know it’s crucial for you to be able work and iterate on your designs quickly and efficiently. Read on to learn more about today’s announcement, and about another addition to Illustrator in today’s release: Rotate View. Overall, Illustrator users will see a 65 percent increase in performance on an M1 Mac, versus Intel builds - InDesign users will see similar gains, with a 59 percent improvement on overall performance on Apple Silicon. While users have been able to continue to use the tool on M1 Macs during this period, today’s development means a considerable boost in speed and performance.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Illustrator and InDesign will run natively on Apple Silicon devices.

With the launch of Apple’s new line of Macs and Macbooks, running on the Silicon M1 chip, we made it a top priority to optimize all Creative Cloud apps - Illustrator and InDesign included - to run seamlessly in this new environment. With so many designers around the world relying on Illustrator and InDesign every day to help them create and express themselves, we know speed and performance are key. Adobe Illustrator and InDesign will run natively on Apple Silicon: Create faster and more efficiently than ever beforeĪdobe Illustrator and InDesign are the modern standards for creating illustrations, graphics, publications, and editorial materials across web, mobile, print, and beyond.

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