7/25/2023 0 Comments Acorn drawing app![]() I love being able to store multiple versions of a design (different pages of a site design, resolutions of an icon, a series of icons etc.) in one file. States and Pages are features in Fireworks that I use lot. It must be able to set leading and kerning, but ligature support would be good too. Which is apparently the posh term for what I’m more used to calling ‘Pathfinder’, making a new shape by subtracting, adding or intersecting two vector paths. A broad term to mean being able to add strokes, fills and different types of gradients. I must have the confidence that when I draw a vector object it’s dead on, no decimal points in either the dimensions or the positioning. ![]() I’ll be using this app for website designs, icons and interface elements, so some of the key things that I’m looking for are: ![]() It could be the these apps do have the features that I’ve claimed are missing, but there’s only so much time I can give them all. Times that by three, and you’ll know why this has taken so long to write.ĭisclaimer: No app can be perfect, and it takes a lot of time to trial them and understand their approach. So you end up the tool that you know, that you will enable you to deliver on time with confidence. When you’re up against with deadlines, it’s never the right time to go through that process. There will be different ways of achieving the same end goal, and getting used to all these takes time. Commands won’t be in the same place as you expect them to be, or even named the same. However, the approach and workflow of any new tool is going to be different. In order to trial these applications properly, you have to use them in anger. Linux and Windows users will find that it feels more at home for them. I didn’t include Inkscape, not because it’s bad, but I’m looking for better integration with OS X than Adobe products, and Inkscape feels like a step further away from that. That post did point to 3 possibilities however: Acorn, Drawit and Opacity. Before I get a sackful of comments from diehard Photoshop fans, please believe me when I say that Photoshop is not the right tool. I recently tried both Photoshop and Illustrator again for icon creation, and Illustrator in particular irritated the hell out of me with it’s pixel preview artefacts ( still not fixed from CS3). Photoshop has many alternatives, and Illustrator has a handful, but nothing else seemed to cater for the mix of vector and bitmap editing that is Fireworks. Last October, I wrote about my frustrations with Fireworks CS4, and the search for decent competitors to Adobe Software. © 2002–23 Fireworks alternatives on trial: Acorn, Drawit and Opacity
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