Comments on: Learning Illustrator http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/ Technology and Geek Stuff by Eric Burke Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:37:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jesse Wilson http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-47728 Jesse Wilson Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:32:27 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-47728 I feel your pain. In the years since Corel discontinued Mac support, I've documented how to keep the last version alive on newer revs of OS X. Its a losing battle (due to PowerPC, Apple's and aggressive deprecation policy), and I've mostly moved on to Lineform. It still lacks many CorelDraw features: bezier editing is clumsy, the selection model is broken like Illustrator, etc. And so I'm still kinda sore about it all. I feel your pain. In the years since Corel discontinued Mac support, I’ve documented how to keep the last version alive on newer revs of OS X. Its a losing battle (due to PowerPC, Apple’s and aggressive deprecation policy), and I’ve mostly moved on to Lineform.

It still lacks many CorelDraw features: bezier editing is clumsy, the selection model is broken like Illustrator, etc. And so I’m still kinda sore about it all.

]]> By: Eric Burke http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-47727 Eric Burke Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:28:59 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-47727 Direct select behaves the same - it selects anything touching the bounding box. The script I referenced works with direct select. You basically select a region with direct select, and then go to File -> Scripts -> JET_MarqueeDeselectPartials. Direct select behaves the same – it selects anything touching the bounding box. The script I referenced works with direct select. You basically select a region with direct select, and then go to File -> Scripts -> JET_MarqueeDeselectPartials.

]]> By: Ray http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-47726 Ray Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:23:33 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-47726 Have you tried direct select? The hollow pointer. Have you tried direct select? The hollow pointer.

]]> By: Eric Burke http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-47720 Eric Burke Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:44:26 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-47720 1. The current version of Inkscape does not run on Snow Leopard, the next version says it will 2. Inkscape has many keyboard focus bugs under Leopard due to X. Yes, it "works", but not well. I find Inkscape to be very frustrating on Leopard mostly due to lots of little annoyances, such as when I enter text in one field, tab to the next, and start typing, but it doesn't work, requiring me to go back to the mouse to click again. The font selection dropdown box is really flaky too. 1. The current version of Inkscape does not run on Snow Leopard, the next version says it will
2. Inkscape has many keyboard focus bugs under Leopard due to X.

Yes, it “works”, but not well. I find Inkscape to be very frustrating on Leopard mostly due to lots of little annoyances, such as when I enter text in one field, tab to the next, and start typing, but it doesn’t work, requiring me to go back to the mouse to click again. The font selection dropdown box is really flaky too.

]]> By: Naum http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/09/13/learning-illustrator/comment-page-1/#comment-47719 Naum Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:37:55 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-47719 Inkscape runs on Mac OS X. Inkscape runs on Mac OS X.

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