Here are some features of Serif Drawplus X8 that I like a lot and never found in Adobe Illustrator:
Easy creation of measurements:
these measurements wil change on the fly when resizing the object.
Right clicking on a ruler gives a contextual menu:
A guides manager to create guides EXACTLY where needed!
Moving the rulers and pulling out some guides while seeing exactly where these guides go:
Easy replicating and spacing of objects:
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Interactively creating rounded rectangles while keeping them adjustable afterwards:
Live creation of shadows and adjusting them:
All of these features are very easy to adjust afterwards; not so in Illustrator.
I have been struggling for hours to change the rounding of rectangles in Adobe Illustrator: it was a true crime!
I have several old old programs but I
struggle on till I don't find it all so painful.
Till then keep on doing what you are doing !
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The program Drawplus X8, is really fantastic, they replaced it with Affinity Designer, also good, but this new version lacks a lot of what the older Drawplus does.
Actually I do not understand why they leave out some fantastic features...
for € 22,99 this Drawplus is an incredible bargain!
Only thing is that the software company, Serif, does not maintain drawplus any longer, but you can even think that as positif: the program will never change again due to a software firm that decides for us what is better.
With Adobe programs I experienced several times that after updating keyboard shortcuts were changed or some handy tools suddenly were not so handy anymore, went to a different, hard to find place in the menus etcetera.
http://www.serif.com/int/nl/drawplus
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