Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for opening .ai files Morning all, We have our business card templates stored as .ai files which seemed great when there was only a few of us, but now that we're hiring, it's proving difficult when we need to order new people business cards.
Here is sK1 - it is free & open-source vector editor with CMYK/spot colors support, mostly CorelDraw/Adobe Illustrator alternative. Inkscape is free, and garbage imo (same with gimp), you could look into Affinity Designer. +1 for Affinity Designer. You won't want to go back to Inkscape anymore. Thanks for the suggestions!
As long as you dont want to print, Inkscape is a great program with some minor flaws. It has a lot of effects, called Live Path Effect (LPE). Affinity Designer is a very well designed alternative with a nice price, but lacks effects like Blend and (real) vector brushes (as in AI), live trace or repeating patterns.
level 1 Nantyzis · 4y Inkscape is a free alternative to Illustrator. 11 level 2 wmassingham · 4y Yup, Inkscape. </thread> 2 level 1 foofdawg · 4y https://www.gimp.org/ Gimp is an open source image editor, similar to photoshop/illustrator.
If you are a student, then Adobe does offer student pricing on CC licenses: $20/month for all CC apps. It's not as good as free, but it's otherwise a pretty good deal. 2. level 1. Tsukuru_Tazaki. · 4y. Illustrator is the professional standard. Corel always made decent alternatives to Adobe in my opinion, but They aren't quite up to par, and I ...
Inkscape is a free alternative to Illustrator. Gimp is an open source image editor, similar to photoshop/illustrator. If you've used either program before, the buttons and options should be somewhat familiar although slightly different. Thanks, I had tried it years ago and didn't get on with it.
If you are a student, then Adobe does offer student pricing on CC licenses: $20/month for all CC apps. It's not as good as free, but it's otherwise a pretty good deal. 2. level 1. Tsukuru_Tazaki. · 4y. Illustrator is the professional standard. Corel always made decent alternatives to Adobe in my opinion, but They aren't quite up to par, and I ...
Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for opening .ai files Morning all, We have our business card templates stored as .ai files which seemed great when there was only a few of us, but now that we're hiring, it's proving difficult when we need to order new people business cards.
Here is sK1 - it is free & open-source vector editor with CMYK/spot colors support, mostly CorelDraw/Adobe Illustrator alternative. Inkscape is free, and garbage imo (same with gimp), you could look into Affinity Designer. +1 for Affinity Designer. You won't want to go back to Inkscape anymore. Thanks for the suggestions!