dspreadbury wrote:It's not free or open source, but if you're using a Mac, an excellent and inexpensive alternative to Adobe Illustrator is Affinity Designer... I would recommend both as high-quality, high-performance illustration and photo editing tools...
Indeed, Daniel, It is very affordable software and most important – very fast working.
It could open a whole PDF file with all pages in one go positioning every single page on different and not transparent layer.
Opening the files is amazing – it happens instantly. Vector-crop tool is fantastic. It applies mask without so many preparations and any complications.
OMHO, it is definitely application positioned on much higher level compared to iDraw.
Unfortunately, "Affinity Designer" like many others, has its own limitation.
In my daily work the most important option I use in Illustrator remains the possibility to select different kind of type or drawn objects organised by categories – text, filled objects, strokes, selecting by color,(stroke) width etc.
Affinity Designer shows on the right side all elements included in the file by categories. You can select manually single element even without touching its appearance on the graphical field. Just like LilyPond with Frescobaldi.
But: how can one select only text objects or only curves?
Only manually... I could not finde any solution to optimise it.
Well, I am not a master of this software, and if someone knows better its tricks, please, share with us the hidden features of Affinity Designer, especially if there are possibility to filter the selection by sort.
Thank you.