[haiku] Re: Vector graphics program
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:40:37 +0100
Hi Daniel,
Am 26.03.2014 03:18, schrieb Daniel Stritt:
Hello, after perusing haikuware, bebits, and osdrawer seems to be down, but I
can't find what I am looking for. Does anyone know of a vector based graphics
app for Haiku? Similar to the icon tool, but for full sized images.
I don't know which version of Haiku you are using. If it's the latest
alpha version, there is WonderBrush already pre-installed. It is
actually a vector graphics program, although you work in a fixed
resolution (which you can change at anytime). If you are using the
latest nightlies, WonderBrush is available as a package in HaikuDepot.
WonderBrush comes with documentation in English and German, a few
tutorials, and there are actually tutorial videos out there which you
can google for. It has a bit of an initial learning curve, but people
have produced nice graphics with it once they got the hang of it. A lot
of the graphics artwork used throughout Haiku and the website has been
produced with WonderBrush.
That being said, I am the author of WonderBrush, so take my
recommendation as potentially very biased. :-)
WonderBrush is free to use with Haiku, very stable and works almost
perfect in Haiku (one layout bug in the UI when multiple files are
open). I think the only alternative vector drawing programs would be
e-Picture and Moho. Both are powerful and stable enough to get some work
done. But only demo-versions are available which place watermarks in the
output. At least Moho does, don't know about ePicture. Also, I don't
know how well they actually run on Haiku. A few weeks ago I worked on
the PackageInstaller application and tested with Moho among other
packages, and the app seemed to work fine (unlike for example Gobe
Productive, which does have a (vector) graphics module, but is not
usable on Haiku). Moho is focused on animation and does not offer some
effects you would expect for working more generally with graphics.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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