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VectorScribe

May 12, 2012 12:01 PM

Your Aunt Illy and I have been getting pretty hot 'n heavy lately and I wonder if it's time to take our relationship to the next level.

 

VectorScribe

Do you use it? It looks great, but I wonder if it's worth bothering with - developing a reliance on a 3rd party plugin, outputting files that're less transferrable to others because they use art generated by plugins, complicating future installs of Illustrator, having to buy updates for it if I get hooked on it, etc.

 

 

I use numerous plugins for Photoshop, but not a single plugin for Illustrator (got some cool scripts, but that's about it).

 

 

Your thoughts on VectorScribe? Yay or nay?

 

 

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While I'm at it, what about that DrawScribe, too?

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  • [scott w]
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    1. [scott w],
    May 12, 2012 12:33 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Probably the best Illustrator plug in I own, and have ever owned.

     

    Art is standard art.. open a file which used VectorScribe on a system without it.. you'd never know. You can get hooked on how easy it makes things. But it doesn't actually do anything you can't do (with a lot more work pushing and pullign handles and anchors) in the core Illustrator. It's a HUGE time saving tool.

     

    Installs are easy, few or no hiccups. (especially since they updated their licening system)

     
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    May 12, 2012 12:33 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    Thank you for your feedback.

     

     

    Do you find that it replaces base Illustrator functionality, or is it just for bells and whistles?

     
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    May 12, 2012 12:41 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    It replaces many tedious tasks in Illustrator... watch the videos. It's not hype. Basically you can spend 5 mintues rounding 2 corners to perfectly match or you can use VectorScribe's Dynamic corners and do it in 2 seconds. It essentially makes some things like corners, shapes, anchors, etc. "Live" allowing you to alter them further at any time in the future.

     

    It's basically core AI tools on steriods. And honestly, it's how AI tools should work by default.

     
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    May 12, 2012 1:14 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Files created using VectorScribe aren't "less transferable". When someone doesn't have the plugin installed, they get normal vector paths. The objects just aren't live. So for those people it's just as you hadn't used VectorScribe at all. They won't even notice.

     
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    May 12, 2012 3:04 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    Spent a couple hours watching videos with my jaw on the floor the whole time. Thanks for the replies you both. Gonna go buy it!

     
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    May 12, 2012 4:18 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    AND AND AND

     

    Did you check out Phantasm??? Wow, gotta have it, too!

     
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    May 12, 2012 5:08 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Yeah I run the enitre astutegraphics.com library of AI plug ins. Not a bad one in the bunch.... now just waiting for the CS6 updates. (which they are working on and will be free if you buy the CS5 plug ins now)

     
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    8. Lineslineslines3,
    Jan 13, 2013 7:49 AM   in reply to [scott w]
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    Adobe should REALLY implement many of these shape-building features into the Illustrator toolset.

     

    Vectorscribe's path editor tool and corners tools are essentials in my opinion. Is this ia good thing or bad thing? I don't know yet - I remain hopeful they will be brought into Illustrator's foundation.

     
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