Illustrator needs disruption, true. But Photoshop needs disrupt even more!
(And don't get me started on only two computers for the full subscription install!)
Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
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Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#42I'm looking for something with solid EPS import and export. So far, I've found Sketch flakey (some things imported incorrectly, other things cause visual glitches), OmniGraffle great except when I export a document as EPS which has other EPS-imported elements embedded in it, they appear to be rasterised (which defeats the point). And that's pretty much it–Pixelmator, despite becoming more of a vector tool, doesn't su…
I work with vectors a lot and I'm wondering why you're set on EPS as a format instead of using something like SVG.
Does ElementaryOS support retina? It works well as a dual boot!
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#43This looks great, but... Mac only. I really long for a tool like this for Linux.
For myself and other creatives, the only thing really holding us to Mac and PC is Adobe. A complete design suite (illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, and indesign) would be a complete game-changer for the industry.
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#44This looks great, but... Mac only. I really long for a tool like this for Linux.
For myself and other creatives, the only thing really holding us to Mac and PC is Adobe. A complete design suite (illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, and indesign) would be a complete game-changer for the industry.
what do people even use dreamweaver for any more??
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#45Although surely inferiour in some ways for now, Inkscape is more useful to me because it's open and runs on all of my computers, it also has a usable plugin system, a userbase...
Thanks, but no thanks.
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a lot of it is that Adobe's UIs have gotten so relentlessly fucked-up. They have their own cross-platform UI toolkit that always feels just a little wrong. And they keep on making things worse; the latest release of AI, for instance, has a truly horrible new font dropdown menu due to their desire to integrate a 'buy fonts on Typekit' button into what once worked quickly and elegantly.
I know that Mac users are very sensitive towards all cross-platform and non-native UI toolkits. I have always wondered why I haven't seen many complaints about the Adobe non-native UI on Mac. So, its interesting to hear that it does feel a bit wrong.
I like the ability to darken or lighten the UI but I absolutely hate working with their non-native, wildly inconsistent UI.
And I hate the rounded corners options in the size panel now.
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
For myself and other creatives, the only thing really holding us to Mac and PC is Adobe. A complete design suite (illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, and indesign) would be a complete game-changer for the industry.
what do people even use dreamweaver for any more??
Dreamweaver is still, workflow-wise probably the most ideal app for doing HTML emails. When you construct something with dozens of nested tables, you do not want to work in the code, you want a clean split view that highlights across windows when something is selected. The best alternative is Pinegrow probably but it requires a specific html doctype that you may have to remove after the fact.
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#48This looks great, but... Mac only. I really long for a tool like this for Linux.
Or Windows, even. I thought we are in the cross-platform software era?
If you want a tool like this for Windows, you want Xara Designer Pro probably. Or Serif does make Draw Plus and many other apps for Windows - http://www.serif.com/drawplus/
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#49Illustrator needs disruption, true. But Photoshop needs disrupt even more! (And don't get me started on only two computers for the full subscription install!)
Yes sir. I thought Krita was going to be a good new alternative for Photoshop, being open source but sadly it's got basic things missing. You can't even nudge a layer using arrow keys you have to drag layer content with the mouse. Laggy too. GIMP is well, always GIMP. Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw, Painter those don't really hit the mark. UI is always just odd. I feel lost honestly. I'm glad I have cs6 master collection and plan on squeezing it for all I can over the next few years. I hate mucking around with Illustrator, though it's got some cool things it uniquely does. I use Xara Designer Pro for a lot of work. It's awesome and flexible but it's not gonna replace Photoshop.
Re: Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
#50I'm looking for something with solid EPS import and export. So far, I've found Sketch flakey (some things imported incorrectly, other things cause visual glitches), OmniGraffle great except when I export a document as EPS which has other EPS-imported elements embedded in it, they appear to be rasterised (which defeats the point). And that's pretty much it–Pixelmator, despite becoming more of a vector tool, doesn't su…
I work with vectors a lot and I'm wondering why you're set on EPS as a format instead of using something like SVG. Does ElementaryOS support retina? It works well as a dual boot!
I think the types of EPS files you can create is expansive. Not sure if it means that it supports more features of illustrator such as filters and that, but it may do more than SVG for that reason. Also does SVG support CMYK? Because that's definitely something EPS is used for, trading CMYK vector files.