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I'm absolutely happy people are taking on Illustrator/XD. I was a freelance illustrator specializing in print while in college, and have grown dislike Illustrat
by androidgirl 8y ago
I'm absolutely happy people are taking on Illustrator/XD. I was a freelance illustrator specializing in print while in college, and have grown dislike Illustrator.
The issues I'm having now with most design and vector art tools now are:
* No Offline Support
* No Linux Support.
That leaves us with... well, just Inkscape. Honestly it has gotten decent with the most recent version. We finally have an objects menu, after 5 years of development. But features are still behind Sketch, AI, and Affinity.
I'm well aware Linux users who are into drawing or design are a small minority, so I can't really complain.
- jonny_eh 8y agoTry https://www.figma.com/ https://www.figma.com/ ?
- androidgirl 8y agoI checked Figma out before, afaik it doesn't let me locally save my files and work on them without Internet on Linux. Is that still the case now?
- andrewthebold 8y agoLooks like they have limited offline capability if you've already loaded up a file you want to work on [1]. [1] https://help.figma.com/faqs/offline-mode https://help.figma.com/faqs/offline-mode
- RobertKerans 8y agoAfaik that is still the case — they seem to have stuck with the web version. I used Gravit for a while, but they got bought by Corel and the application has gone from free to $100 for the "fully-featured" version (which given it's basically a beta and is missing what I consider key features, is a bit much). Akira [1] looks like it could possibly be the answer, but it's still a way off (though usable) [1] https://github.com/Alecaddd/Akira https://github.com/Alecaddd/Akira
- twog 8y agoThis is no longer true. You can now export .fig files to save locally on linux/mac/windows