Drawing is too hard...

[gwpriester]

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[me2]

the funny image

hehe

...

I've decided to do the 7 days AI evaluation thing.

Edit:
I have already managed to draw a thing like a message box saying something, just by installing Ai.



Edit 2:
Now it shows me a template dialog that hides all its buttons I have to click under the taskbar, on my FHD notebook.

The dialog window is not resizable or maximizable, but I can move the window to the top, and I'll see part of the buttons. Also, there is a 1 in 4 chance that Windowskey+D for showing the desktop will place the dialog in front of the taskbar (which is just normal, the Windows 10 install is just one day old and I did not set anything special at all, like automatic hiding, unusual position etc). But clicking the dialog window does not bring it there. So, whatever place I place this window, this is all I can see of the buttons.



Me, using Ai for 20 seconds.

Okay, cancelled the subscription. That was short. Ai CS4 did work very well (not really the scripting), so, no Ai hate. Actually I like it. I'll re-try next year. I should never have sold my CS4 copy.

[me2]

To my surprise I found an Affinity Designer trial. It's quite good.

Though, the docked color picker on the right is never in context, does nothing or adds an unwanted stroke width. It's broken.

But I was able to draw another smurf house (no idea why that, maybe covers all I need). It looks a bit sterile. That smurf has germaphobia.

The ClipView/Powerclip feature in Affinity is good. I guess I'll buy it and try with that.

[gwpriester]

All of this would be a lot easier in Xara. But perhaps we are prejudiced.

[me2]

All of this would be a lot easier in Xara. But perhaps we are prejudiced.

I'm currently just staying away from Xara because it said "do not nudge" too often to me. I know I need a bigger document with bigger margin then, but it's like i get into a Xara-world where.. ... where you are afraid of ..Xara-wolves?...I mean.. it's hard to explain. Also I don't know what the Xara cloud is. It talks about web design at some point, and I didn't even know where the original Xara product is placed. Never tried it.

Sorry about the wrong comparisons.

One thing I found difficult in Affinity is casting a shadow on a bunch of things. I thought when I put shapes into a group and try to drag-drop a transparent black onto that group layer, that shadow so to speak would only be cast onto each shape in the group. But Affinity makes it also show at the transparent part of the group. Isn't that wrong, and doesn't Xara do that like you "would expect"? I'm going to try.

Couldn't get a shadow from the big green circle onto the things below. But I guess there is a (non-destructive) trick, in Affinity.

[me2]

Yep, Clipview just does what you would expect. Affinity doesn't, yet.

I just tried to uninstall Adobe. CC eats 7% CPU for idling in the traybar... you know what? Adobe cannot be uninstalled. I ended the CC process, but in Windows 10 add or remove features, I can try ten times to uninstall Ai, it will just do nothing, and CC replies with "you have Ai installed, I won't uninstall either." Isn't that nice...

[me2]

I have installed the new Designer Pro from xara.com, the desktop product.

Unfortunately it only does this:





and quits. Or .. crashes, depends on.. how you view it.

But maybe the new Xara version is just unhappy that I have installed Xara 365 like 30 minutes before? Maybe a DLL thing.

The computer is a new Lenovo X1 (gen 6, but only a few months old, says Lenovo serial number texts). And has Windows 10, installed two days before, with updates. User: Unfortunately me.