Really really impressive, you roxx
PS: http://tutorsbox.com creator
Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you failed at using Illustrator or Gimp effectively, then you didn't try hard enough. Follow video tutorials and try to recreate graphics, in time you'll get better. Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too, now I have to learn coffeescript to make sense of this library.
Coffeescript is way easier to learn than Illustrator.
I learned coffeescript in literally 30 minutes. I have a hard time taking any js dev seriously who sees coffeescript as hard.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#23Artur, the linked page is almost unreadable here (Chrome OSX):
http://cl.ly/image/0F212f3X2h07
The Maven Pro font appears to be infinitely thin at weight 300, it only starts being readable at 120px+. It doesn't have a version for that weight, so the browser is [failing at] simulating that.
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#24Didn't work at all for the MediaCrush logo. https://mediacru.sh/static/mediacrush_logo.svg
Is this negativity really necessary? If you're going to leave a comment about something not working at least say what went wrong and what could fix the issues you had.
I'm sick of comments like this constantly polluting HN's community with negativity.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#25Is there a specific reason why you choose to implement most (all?) of the functionality yourself without building it on top of any existing libraries?
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#26Nice. I have been thinking about building a web app similar to sketch (http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/). This is pretty good.
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#27Awesome! I'm really awful at drawing on my computer. Many failed attempts at trying to learn Illustrator, Gimp, etc. What's really cool about a web app of a drawing app is that you could use all the open source product tour JS libraries to create interactive tutorials... So impressive, thank you!
If you failed at using Illustrator or Gimp effectively, then you didn't try hard enough. Follow video tutorials and try to recreate graphics, in time you'll get better. Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too, now I have to learn coffeescript to make sense of this library.
> Ugh, this entire thing is in coffeescript too
You mean the entire thing is noise free an easily readable, I agree.
Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
#28Nice simple editor web based editor, though I'd still use the fuller featured SVGEdit in most cases.
One thing that would really stand out would be an 'infinite zoom' I've seen implemented elsewhere.
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#29Can it be used to resurrect Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe FreeHand? I still can't use anything but it and I keep a windows VM on my Mac almost only for it.
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#30This is terrific. Been fiddling around with the pen tool. So far, not much worse than Illustrator!
A few feature requests: having the shift-c tool (convert anchor point, I think) and being able to delete anchor points would be great. Much harder to work without that. Saving also didn't work the first several times I tried (but great to see auto-saving to ¿localStorage?)