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Affinity Designer 2 might be the only one close to what Adobr Illustrator can handle.
GIMP is unfortunately not a good competitor, the UX/UI is atrocious, and that's after spending 25 years using it now.. I switched to Krita for most things at this point. GIMP needs some sort of revamp.
Seriously, gimp is barely usable for anything, they need to put the damn thing our of our misery.
And it spawned gtk, which is yet another monument to software masochism.
Will give krita a shot, this shouldn't be that hard.
Like maybe a GIMP 3.0?
I see two new features that look fantastic, but the rest of the UI seems likely unchanged. I'll definitely give it a shot though.
Adobe... Fucks people hard.
text. no seriously, pdfs are easy to create. reading vendor locked files aren't useful. reply with a shrug 🤷 i create most of mine with firefox print. used to generate them on the fly with php, for users to download.
Wish there was a good FOSS Acrobat/Blue beam alternative.
I use those tools for the majority of my work as an engineer.
bluebeam is great
I hate that there is not a good alternative to InDesign that works on linux.
If only the Affinity suit were to work on linux, even just with wine, I would be alright with the fact that it still is proprietary software. It was somehow able to replace my whole Ph/Ai/Id workflow but it is till keeping me from trying to switch to the penguin.
Ive been using Sumatra for pdfs. It’s open source too.
is the image not loading only for me?
It loads for me on voyager, but is unreadable.
Libre Office Draw is another Ai alternative
Shout out to pdfgear.
Does almost all the pdf file manipulation anyone needs and it's free.
Affinity + BMD’s Davinci Resolve FTW. Best combo IMOO. I did the switch back in 2017 and never looked back. Worth the single low price and long term free upgrades. For acrobat replacement (basics only) Apple’s preview is flawless and Ubuntu 25.10 Pages looks promising. Looking for recommendations for Lightroom replacement. Apple’s pixelmator purchase looks promising but I don’t want subscription.
Countering Animator with Blender, that's brutal. For at least some stuff Blender is also the better Illustrator.
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