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Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by mikegreen »

stevenleeg wrote: post #24
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #20

Didn'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.

It is not negativity, it is the real world. The author put up his wares and someone reviewed it and shared his thoughts. Hopefully, maybe, someone will come along and say "hey I checked in a fix for it!".

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by ygra »

artursapek wrote: post #19
ygra wrote: post #13

Played around a bit for a few minutes and threw a few of my usually handwritten SVGs at it with disastrous results. View boxes don't seem to work, dashed lines, symbols, any kind of shape reüse in general; groups are ungrouped automatically, but apparently properties defined on groups are not propagated to child elements when ungrouping. And it manages to lock up Firefox and IE completely. Not terribly impressed so f…

You're right, it still chokes on a lot of SVG features. It is in no way spec-complete. All I can say is hopefully people contribute and it works better for everyone. The version I'm sharing is what I've been able to muster by myself in a year between school and work. That said, if you opened issues on Github describing how to lock it up in Firefox and IE, and listing those SVG features that it doesn't render, that wo…

Apologies, if that came across too negative. It's just a bit frustrating when you see »Oh, nice, it's based on SVG and compares itself to Illustrator and Inkscape« and try various things you have written in the past years only to notice that none of them work.

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by ye »

This is not an alternative to Illustrator.

It's a very very basic vector editor that doesn't even let you rotate things, import any standard vector formats (SVG, EPS, AI, PDF), have dotted outlines, distort, curve the text, etc etc etc.

I understand it was a lot of work, and you did a great job, but let's not pretend this implements even 1% of Illustrator.

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by ropz »

I think that it's terrific but does a disservice to Illustrator. It's terrific because you've built it - and what's there, works, wonderfully - but does a disservice to Illustrator because the devil is in the million details that Illustrator has already implemented. But I know you want help to make and iron out those details, so really well done!

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by PaulFreund »

ye wrote: post #44

This is not an alternative to Illustrator. It's a very very basic vector editor that doesn't even let you rotate things, import any standard vector formats (SVG, EPS, AI, PDF), have dotted outlines, distort, curve the text, etc etc etc. I understand it was a lot of work, and you did a great job, but let's not pretend this implements even 1% of Illustrator.

Rotation is possible. Activate the (rotate indicating) tool and move the resize/move/rotate handles.

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by coulix »

Edmond wrote: post #40
coulix wrote: post #21

Really really impressive, you roxx PS: http://tutorsbox.com creator

are you actually making money off that? check my profile for a link to an open source project of mine that has similar functionality with a lot more content management features.

A little

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

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Post by ye »

PaulFreund wrote: post #46
ye wrote: post #44

This is not an alternative to Illustrator. It's a very very basic vector editor that doesn't even let you rotate things, import any standard vector formats (SVG, EPS, AI, PDF), have dotted outlines, distort, curve the text, etc etc etc. I understand it was a lot of work, and you did a great job, but let's not pretend this implements even 1% of Illustrator.

Rotation is possible. Activate the (rotate indicating) tool and move the resize/move/rotate handles.

Ah, sorry. It works in such a non-obvious way, I missed it.
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