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Adobe has officially taken the wraps off Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2, major upgrades to its illustration and layout/design software. Illustrator 10 packs a number of new features, including vector and raster-based slicing; liquify tools, enveloping, and warping; four new drawing tools for lines, arcs, grids, and polar grids; and compound-path compatibility, allowing users to cut and paste compounds between Photoshop and Illustrator.

Macworld UK is speculating that Apple will release Mac OS X 10.1 tomorrow, during Apple VP Phil Schiller’s Seybold keynote. The article sites unnamed sources and includes a rather detailed overview of the operating system upgrade.

Andy O’Meara has posted WhiteCap 4.1, an update to the popular visual plug-in for iTunes, Audion, and SoundJam that corrects a bug under Mac OS X.

Adobe will officially announce Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0 later today at Seybold Seminars in San Francisco, California. Mac OS X plans for the two titles are as of yet unknown, although Adobe will ship Illustrator 10 before the year is out and plans to ship InDesign 2.0 in early 2002. At Macworld Expo New York in July, Adobe demonstrated early versions of both applications running under Mac OS X.

VersionTracker notes that Microsoft has posted version 2.0 of their IntelliPoint driver for the Mac. Changes in this release are unspecified at this time, but the driver will work with both the IntelliMouse Explorer and the Optical versions of Microsoft’s input device.