Amadine
BeLight Software ships Amadine, their first Vector base application
Amadine is a new graphical application by BeLight Software - the same company that creates Art Text Tool and Swift Publisher. It's their first vector design application.
Overall the application works pretty well. I did run into an issue with one of my EPS files where it didn't render very well.
Seven Things I Learned While Beta Testing Amadine
- Amadine is very basic vector application - there's isn't any special pen or vector tool that are not available in other vector applications.
- I was successfully able to drag and drop EPS and SVG documents and they opened correctly in Amadine. Each file that I dragged and drop had its own group layer.
- You can have multiple sheets or ArtBoards. Which allows you to have a single app to handle all different formats for images - for example, different icons designs for iOS and MacOS. Web Developers can have different sheets for different website layouts. You can create Sheet via the Sheet Window or the Sheets tool.
- Files can be exported to SVG, EPS, PDF, TIFF, PNG and JPG formats.
- You have the option to import PDF and EPS files as static images via the Import dialog and Drag and Drop.
- The Path Width tool is pretty neat, it gives you the ability to stretch out any vector pen line.
- It took a long time to import a 14.6 MB EPS file that I downloaded from DepositPhoto. It didn't really render correctly.
Amadine didn't render this EPS file correctly. The screenshot on the left is the Preview application.
Overall Thoughts
Amadine looks promising. I don't think I would buy it since I have Affinity Designer and ArtBoard. One of the cool features of ArtBoard is several instructional sheets to teach you how to use the pen tool. I think that really helps me grasp the whole pen tool concept.
I think Amadine is worth looking at if you're new to vector applications. It's certainly worth downloading and trying it out to see what you think. While Amadine is still in Beta, download the application and try it out.
I would be interested to see how BeLight Software integrates this into Swift Publisher. It would certainly make it Swift Publisher a powerful desktop publisher applications.