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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:30:33 JST Paul Cantrell

   Looking to turn my kid loose with some vector graphics software. Hardware is an older MacBook.

   Specific recommendations? Inkscape, Affinity Designer, other?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:39:15 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Sini Tuulia

     @sinituulia
     This is helpful, thank you!

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:39:18 JST Sini Tuulia

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     @inthehands Oh, and: The vector graphics built into Affinity Photo are pretty similar to those that were found on Adobe products so I assume the Designer ones are similar as well. Generally they're pretty low computation to run. Inkscape is a bit different, and was clunky in some ways, but if the child doesn't have any Adobe jank in their muscle memory yet, it's alright.

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:39:22 JST Sini Tuulia

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     @inthehands Inkscape was alright, haven't tried Affinity Designer but have been very happy with Affinity Photo

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:59:09 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     @inthehands A packet of raw SVGs might be an interesting adjunct. Map outlines, scenes, maybe little animations?

     But that's me who came up via the W3C SVG primer and rewrote Hunt The Wumpus in SVG. http://aristobit.com/svg/wumpus.svg

     PaperJS is a reimplementation of a fancy vector design app in JS + HTML Canvas. My fan art picture frame app uses PaperJS.

     And then there's Observable.

     Inkscape should be fine. I had strange behavior on Win10 starting in the background and hooking too many file types.