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Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

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Post by jansan »

I have been working on Hyvector for the last five years and finally decided to present the result of my work.

Hyvector is an SVG editor that runs in all modern browsers. It is stable, very fast, and capable of handling complex SVG images.

Big new features like art strokes, vector tracing, colorizing are in the making, but for now the focus is on pushing a polished first release out of the door.

I would love to hear any feedback on what you like, missing features, or any bugs you encounter via our issue tracker: https://github.com/hyvectorapp/hyvector-issues

Note that while Hyvector should work on a phone, it is much more usable on a desktop computer or tablet.

Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor
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Post by pveierland »

This locked up my system so hard I couldn't recover by killing the browser or reloading the window manager (Firefox 133.0.3 / Sway 1.9). Had to reboot and don't have time to investigate further right now. Appeared to happen while double clicking and dragging around elements a bit rapidly.

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Post by edu »

Nice, shows a lot of promise. A quick feedback, placign the floating toolbar at the top is distracting and takes up real-state from the actual drawing. I'd prefer to have a regular toolbar or placing it at the bottom of the canvas.

Edit: or make it moveable/collapsible

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#6

Post by WillAdams »

It's a nice beginning.

Some obvious features which I missed:

- nodes tool should want to snap begin/end nodes together when editing (and the snap distance could be larger when initially creating, esp. w/ the pencil tool)

- rather than a Nodes tool for editing, something like to Wick Editor's Flash/Futurewave Smarksetch pull/push deforming would be much more mobile friendly

- if corner rounding doesn't work on polygons it should be hidden/disabled

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#8

Post by jansan »

kiney wrote: post #2

how does it compare to inkscape?

Inkscape has far more features, and Hyvector does not support some SVG features like filters and masks, yet.

But I think Hyvector is easier to use, and this is the main focus. I spent a lot of time on cleaning up the UI, and I still see room for improvement.

Performance is comparable. I am testing with some massive SVGs that have tens of thousands of path nodes, and Inkscape and Hyvector can handle them equally well.

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#9

Post by jansan »

WillAdams wrote: post #6

It's a nice beginning. Some obvious features which I missed: - nodes tool should want to snap begin/end nodes together when editing (and the snap distance could be larger when initially creating, esp. w/ the pencil tool) - rather than a Nodes tool for editing, something like to Wick Editor's Flash/Futurewave Smarksetch pull/push deforming would be much more mobile friendly - if corner rounding doesn't work on polygon…

Thanks, this is the kind of feedback that I was hoping for.
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