I just started using Affinity, how does this compare?
As another Affinity user, I don't see features that would make me switch.
Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac
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#42Any recommendations for an iPad + Pencil vector app? This app has a note that an iOS app is coming soon, wondering if anyone has any existing apps they like.
InkPad, hands down. Have used since release several years ago. Maintenance adopted by a husband-wife team that use it. And the original developer added a minor feature just for me :)
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#43Any recommendations for an iPad + Pencil vector app? This app has a note that an iOS app is coming soon, wondering if anyone has any existing apps they like.
Vectornator is free and pretty good
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#45Am curious why some vector rendering products (Amadine, OmniGraffle, Paper 53 etc) end up being Mac / iOS only? Are there some APIs that are Mac only? Why would devs who take an effort to write such a substantial app not ifdef away the rendering bits to make the app work on Windows.
Much of the substance depends on OS-provided convenience APIs that, if you use certain aspects thereof, can’t be replicated on Windows without developing them from scratch.
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#46I'm curious about what the name means...anyone know?
A remix of the tag line: "imagine and design", perhaps?
Either way, it'll have little overlap with unrelated stuff when you type it into a search engine, which is not unimportant.
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#47Pixelmator has a vector graphics mode Command-Shift-V
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#48Sorry, no, Figma way better
https://www.figma.com
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#49Although I don’t have much use for vector graphics software, it is _great_ to see people building new native mac apps which take advantage of the unique features of the platform instead of targeting a cross-platform lowest common denominator!
Yes, there's so many great Mac/Apple only applications that beat the pants off of any cross-platform apps, especially stuff built with Electron. I use some great apps on a daily basis that are Mac or Apple ecosystem only. Acorn - Image editor OmniGraffle - Diagramming OmniFocus - Todo list for GTD Sketch - UI prototyping Plus Apple's productivity software, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. I honestly don't know how people…
The irony of Figma being better than all of those applications, while having been built with Electron, will not be lost on those who have used it.
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#50OT, but does anyone know of a vector drawing program that allows me draw in a similar that Fusion360 or SolidWorks does with their 2D CAD sketches?
It also needs to export to some standard format to be used for print, so using SolidWorks of Fusion360 isn't really an option, I can't export the vector 1-to-1 onto a pdf and do proper colors with those.
I cannot for the life of me figure out bezier curves to create arc sections with proper radii that blends into another line, and abusing adding and subtracting shapes from each other is a cumbersome process and editing the final shape often requires me to start all over creating that composite shape.
I would like to have more technical and fine-grained control over the way my drawings are made, than what pulling with my cursor on those handles gives me.