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guest8t88
Jun 30, 2008, 05:15 PM
Greetings all

In a few months or I am planing on running away from PC and buying myself a MBP. As a start of to my lowered gaming life, I am planing on taking up my drawing again, and hopefully I still got some of it in me, thou it is over 15 years since I left it.

Now I am looking for a graphic program which has vector graphic option.
Many years ago I tried Adobe Illustrator, which worked great, since you can import scanned images as background the easily redraw them on the computer. Adobe is very expensive for hobby use only, else I would have gone with Photoshop and Illustrator, since I am used to work with Photoshop.

Anyone know any good simple vector graphic programs, they can recommend?


reclusivemonkey
Jun 30, 2008, 05:25 PM
Funnily enough, you asked in the right place ;-)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=96235
guest8t88
Jun 30, 2008, 05:42 PM
Funnily enough, you asked in the right place ;-)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=96235

Thanks I looked at it.
No way I will get anthing of MS, and It seems Macromedia is now Adobes.
Perhaps I can get Illustrator from a friend instead, atleast an older version.
nsbio
Jun 30, 2008, 05:51 PM
Thanks I looked at it.
No way I will get anthing of MS, and It seems Macromedia is now Adobes.
Perhaps I can get Illustrator from a friend instead, atleast an older version.

http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/index.html

been using that for 3 years and been happy as a clam.
Lyle
Jun 30, 2008, 06:02 PM
I can't exactly recommend it, since I haven't used it enough yet to decide how well it works, but you might also want to check out VectorDesigner (http://www.tweakersoft.com/vectordesigner/).
guest8t88
Jun 30, 2008, 06:20 PM
Thanks so far.
I'll check out the programs once I have bought a mac.
SchneiderMan
Jul 1, 2008, 03:44 AM
CorelDRAW X4
im using it right now :P
its great, but for pros
JasonElise1983
Jul 1, 2008, 09:23 AM
you could try inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/

i've given it a shot before...it's pretty good. It's no illustrator, but it's not bad once you get used to it.

-je
guest8t88
Jul 1, 2008, 10:13 AM
you could try inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/

i've given it a shot before...it's pretty good. It's no illustrator, but it's not bad once you get used to it.

-je

Thanks Jason, it works good, takes alittle getting used to after so long not working with vectors. I will defently keep this one i mind once I get started.