and Enhanced Stroke
This we can't do until SVG supports it. So far no sign of it in SVG 1.2. Anyway, I don't perceive this as something really indispensable. Just a minor convenience.
Even though it's just "convenience" it seems to me that this is an important feature that should be implemented into svg. As soon as you add transparency to your paths this is quite important -- That is why I've asked about this before... maybe even filed an RFE, dunno.
However Adobe Illustrator seems a little restrictive about it... I'd do this with percentages of stroke width or absolute values... A stroke at 50% offset would be a path just outside around the shape. 0% would be the current default, with half the path on top of the shape and the other half outside the shape. -50% would set the stroke being right inside of the shape. Values of more than (-) 50% will result in a gap between the stroke and the shape.
how much better their new "live tracing" is
I'm more interested to find out what is "live" about it. Does it update when someone edits a linked bitmap? What if I already edited the trace and don't want to lose the edits?
Too me it seems everything just goes "live" in Adobe right now :)
Overall, for 1+ year of development the list is not too impressive. We achieved much more in the same time span :)
Hey: The duotone-feature is worth mentioning! It is really usefull! I know it from InDesign already (they got it in CS) and was shocked not to see it in Illustrator CS. Still you're right, they aren't quite impressing me with their improvements.
David