Two things

[Soquili]

...if someone thinks it's just about removing something you don't want, they have missed the [artistic] point..

Steve perhaps I do not understand what you and Sheff mean by ERASE:


Definition of ERASE

transitive verb

1a : to rub or scrape out (as written, painted, or engraved letters) <erase an error>
1b : to remove written or drawn marks from <erase a blackboard>
1c : to remove (recorded matter) from a magnetic medium; also : to remove recorded matter from <erase a videotape>
1d : to delete from a computer storage device <erase a file>

2a : to remove from existence or memory as if by erasing
2b : to nullify the effect or force of

[Soquili]

BTW I do use Illustrator, Serif DrawPlus, and InkScape but have not found a valid need for the eraser tool in any of them.

When using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and other raster editors the eraser tool is most definately needed.

[gwpriester]

I believe CorelDRAW has an eraser tool as well.

If you visit Shef's website and look at his work you will find it very different from most of the typically vector work we are used to seeing. So an eraser tool makes sense for this kind of illustration. And unlike most of us, Shef is a professional illustrator (who attended one of the best art schools in the country) and who makes his living doing illustration.

[zaphodeist]

I stand corrected - as the bishop said to the actress.

[MarcT]

Great suggestions sheff, I would be happy to see similar tools in Xara.

I would also like a line width tool adjuster, a bit like Illustrator has also.

A kind of push/pull magnet deformer with variable radius and faloff effect would also be nice to tweak shapes. (I think Inkscape has something like this).


Regards,

Marc