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Re: Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac

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I bought iDraw (back before AutoCAD bought Indeeo). I bought Affinity Designer. I tried demos for everything else I could get my hands on. I even tried Inkscape. They all have flashy demos and claim to be great Mac apps (well, except Inkscape). A couple weeks later, I end up regretting my purchase. They just aren't terribly Mac-like, and they have all sorts of little bugs that never seem to get fixed. Being a small c…

> Affinity Designer is 5 years old and arrowheads are still on their to-do list.

Arrowheads are in their beta; you can use them today.

Everything else I agree with, and I’ll add that I miss Freehand.

> I have "Mac vector graphics app fatigue".

Amen. It’s one of those cases where I think “if I had infinite money, I’d build a vector graphics app that works just like I want”. But then I realise that if I had infinite money, I’d have better things to spend my time on.

Re: Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac

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> Developed with precision and attention to what users need

Affinity Designer also promises precision, but when it comes down to it I find it embarrassingly imprecise, buggy, and lacking in basic functionality. It can’t even do an acceptable job of joining two shapes at a point.

I’m cautiously optimistic about Amadine. I’ll give it a spin, and fingers crossed it lives up to its promise!

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