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A link to an interesting free vector tool -- Canny Vectors -- can be found here. There's also a download link for the manual which explains the functionality and also offers examples. Even though designed with the Affinity suite in mind, it exports your designs as .svg that can also be imported into the later Xara apps.
Thanks, Boy!
Have you experimented with the app yet? If so, what's your opinion of it?
Thanks for sharing the link. It's really great to see an independent developer making these type of utilities.
I’ve had a quick look and actually found it awkward to ungroup something pasted into XDP directly from the app, but not so, for example pasting into Affinity Designer or VectorStyler. I think it’s because Xara understands about the HTML code clipboard format more than graphics only apps, and pastes into a HTML Placeholder.
The app does quite a limited number of things quite well, for example making a grid of lines, and works along the lines of as those Xara Spiral and Spray utilities of days gone past.
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Rather that copy straight from Canny Vectors and work with an .html file, it's better to first export to .svg and import the file into XDP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonopen
Only a bit. I find it a useful little app to have in the graphics toolbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by gcellison
Sorry, Boy, but I don't see a link.
If it's there, I tool too many Stupid Pills this morning. If not:
Canny Vectors at the Microsoft Store
It's fun, and a good way to fill a page with random shapes. I've been using Inkscape to populate a page; this seems an easier route.
Happy Memorial Day to our friends in The States,
Gary
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The link is really there, Gare, but here's the full link: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/ind...n-for-windows/.
I gave it because it also contains a download link to the manual.
tha manual is no longer avaiable through that link - that said you probably just have to sign into the affinity forum to get it...?
handrawn, just open Canny Vectors > Settings > User Guide.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
@Xara - How novel, a PDF User Guide accessible from within its application.
Acorn
Good to have you point that out, Acorn. I missed that link.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
To be fair, though, both XDP (v. 18) and Canny Vectors allow you to access the manual from within the app and in both instances it opens in another app (of your choosing).Quote:
@Xara - How novel, a PDF User Guide accessible from within its application.
It must be the drugs. :) I couldn't find it.
Oh, as long as we're talking free toolkit apps, it must be hard to find some of Dimitri's apps and those of others because they've moved around since Gary Priester fist posted them on The Xara Xone, which is also hard to find.
So I've archived some of the ones I know still work with Xara Designer, and let me know if anyone has a problem with me hosting the apps on my MS OneDrive account. Because you WILL run into malware site if you just do a search.
⬛ xColor and xPal from Smokn' Gun Software—create named colors from imported bitmaps, and create your own PAL color liner palette.
⬛ Wikipedia's List of Named Colors This is not an app. It's just a comprehensive list of Named Colors, in case you want to create your own named color palette. Try downloading it as a PDF to save time in the future. And make a
donation to Wikipedia. And all resources listed here.
⬛ Spiro J - Is a spiral generator. Yeah, we have a Smart Shape that allows you to edit the spiral indefinitely, but only if you keep your account ($) up to date. It's small, it's simple, just download it and take it for a...spin.
⬛ Raster- is a utility that can turn a bitmap into a halftoned design, all the halftone dots are vectors. This is a neat way to turn a gradient into a halftone gradient.
⬛ Spray Can fill an entire page with object, anything from spirals to bubble, to "dragon hide", shown here.
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Thanks to anyone I've not named. Your devotion to better art through standalones Xara can use is of the greatest appreciation throughout the community.
My Best,
Gary
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Cheers Gare, Spray alone makes Canny Vectors look almost like a one-trick pony.
I have mine embedded as a Link in my default template so it is one click away: open, generate, copy to clipboard, paste, close.
It is one of the few generators that
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Acorn
I never thought of doing an embedded link...that's cool.
And I love the butterfly! ☆☆☆☆☆
I'm hoping I don't get tromped on by anyone for copying the files to a personal backup place. I really did run into malware in my searches. Plus Gary Priester's voluminous XaraXone pages for years is more or less hidden Or are they?, and most of the .inks to shareware are broken anyhow.
Additionally, and this has virtually nothing to do with Xara...AutoDesk's paint program, SketchBook (not "Pro"). It's "natural media" presented in a sort of different way. It ain't ArtRage, or Escape Motion's Rebelle, or Painter, but it can complement your work in Xara by painting, saving, and then importing as a fill or background.
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Hey, it's FREE, Mac or Win! :)
We ought to open up a "really good freeware" place, considering any more appropriate place on tg has dust all over it!
—g
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