Recently Divorced Freehand users searching for romance with another Vector application… Tue, May 29, 2007 2:27 pm Darrel Austin Now that Freehand is officially dead I figure it’s time I start playing the field again and look for a new love. Here’s the list of potential candidates I’m aware of. Has anyone had a fling with any of these options? If so, please share your thoughts. And please add any that I’ve missed.
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Well, since you've already found Inkscape, half the battle is already over. Let me help you with a few more...
XFig (just call him "Grandpa")
http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig/
SodiPodi (Inkscape's very nice Czechoslovakian cousin, who hasn't updated since '04 )
http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
Karbon14 (if you're using KDE, that is...)
http://www.koffice.org/karbon/
XaraXtreme (Xara's open source offspring)
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
that oughta do it.-Edvard (November 07, 2006, 06:27 PM)
Thanks Tom! Another good resource is this wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vector_graphics_editors).-Darwin (June 12, 2007, 09:48 AM)
I saw the future and it was cold. I turned to Illustrator CS, fooling myself, snuffing out the fire that still burned for that FH version of long ago. I tried to smile and tell myself I'd learn to love this awkward, ungainly beast as I tried to make a simple selection, or breeze through a multi-paged document on Illustrator's barren canvas. So many depravities later, on a stormy winter's night, a flash of lightning, a glimpse of something, someone, out there in the rain. It was Freehand. Cold and alone. But I hardened my heart and tried to focus on the hooting and clanking bells and whistles of Illustrator.
Then the apocolypse. Adobe, the bearer of my second love Photoshop and its beastly cousin, destroyed MM and absorbed the whithered corpse of Freehand. Millions of good designers and illustrators cried that day. Some, like I had, gave up on the past and looked towards the coming Nuclear Winter.
Not me. Not this time. I rose up and did a fresh install of [Freehand]MX. Wearing a torn leather driving suit and a feather earring, I burn across the backroads of digital design, souped up and spoiling for a fight. I ride the wastelands, looking for fuel and whatever loose palettes can be had. My name's not important, but my drawing program is. She's the last of the great Vector illustration programs and for all her faults she's mine. And if they try to handcuff me to a clipping mask, I will Paste Them Inside!-http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=17&catid=199&threadid=1222786&highlight_key=y&keyword1=canvas#4438509
Have you looked at Serif's DRAW PLUS 8? Not sure it's in the same league as the tools mentioned above, but I've enjoyed Serif software for many years. Url is http://www.serif.com/drawplus/drawplus8/index.asp
Chuck-brotman (June 19, 2007, 04:09 PM)
Hi Chuck. I went to look at the software, but I can't find a copy to try. How do you actually GET the software to test/try?
Thanks, Ken-KenR (June 19, 2007, 08:29 PM)
Note that Xara Xtreme is also available for Linux - where is it a free open source project. See XaraXtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)
Currently it is still beta.
Persoanlly I have both Illustrator CS2 (part of the suite) and Xara Xtreme Pro installed under Windows - it is Xara I keep coming back to for speed and ease of use.