I don’t have time right now to comment on the features it lacks that I often need, but how well it will work for you depends on the type of vectors you want to produce. So yes it is a good software for vector drawing. I have a old version of Illustrator, before Adobe went to the subscription model, but I also use Xara Designer Pro, Affinity Designer, Clip Studio, and a couple of other tools for illustration work. That said for more advanced work, I will still go boot into Windows, and use other software there. Since I do most of my programming in Linux, which does not have many offerings for native vector drawing programs, besides Inkscape, I appreciate being able to use Gravit natively. It is built on Electron, so it runs very well across platform. Gravit has been maturing well and has a lot of good functionality. The Gravit developers made it part of their mission to bring back much of the functionality and feel that Freehand offered. Years ago when I first started into graphic design on the computer, Macromedia Freehand, was a standard tool of the trade for many, later to be bought out and retired by Adobe. I will keep you all posted in case of new news.I use Gravit regularly in my development work, mostly to draw and modify material design style icons, a few ui elements, and simple illustrations/page elements/info graphics. It would be a shame to have to deliver on that in the future. In my opinion, Gravit Designer is absolutely the best free open source vector solution for Linux. It is unclear to what extent Gravit Designer maintains the open source character: can developers still influence the source code in the future? It is therefore the question of what the free version will then have to offer, since it is of course not normal practice to cannibalize the paid version too much. Nothing wrong with this of course, but the driver behind the Gravit Designer software changes a bit more of a real passion to make something beautiful in a product driven by different and possibly conflicting forces. Corel is a commercial company and in the first place, of course, offers products to make provit from it. The question is of course what the future of the free version will actually look like. Corel also indicates that current users can rest assured, because they are planning to keep a free version of Gravit available and are looking for a premium offer for those who want to go further. The development team will be included in the existing team of Corel.Ĭorel itself indicates that the Gravit products fit well with the already extensive software portfolio for graphic and digital media with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Painter and PaintShop Pro. Now the news: on 22 June software developer and provider Corel announced via the website of Gravit Designer that they have taken over this application from Gravit GmbH. In my opinion, the application Gravit Designer is so good that I wondered at the time of writing my previous post what the revenue model could be of the underlying organization to be able to justify the free provision of both a desktop and a web variant and also a free cloud environment. But now we received the news that Corel is taking over Gravit Designer. I was very enthusiastic about this good looking tool. Gravit Designer is a powerful design application that offers a good interface, is accessible to beginners but also offers enough for advanced users, offers many special functionalities, supports local and cloud storage and supports multiple platforms. In an earlier blog I wrote about Gravit Designer, a very extensive, professional, open source and free vector solution for Linux.
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