Xara Extreme 5 (free software but only until 20 May!)

[johnl3d]

http://www.xara.com/us/specialoffers/designer/

[Vertexspline]

thanks Johnl for link. Smiles.

[Rodney]

For those of you without the means to create AI drawings for importing/converting to splines this is your chance to get that capability.

 

Xara Express can export to AI.

 

I just downloaded, installed and registered with the express purpose of finding out if it could export to AI and IT CAN.

Drew a few lines in Xara and in two minutes had them in A:M as splines.

Total time from initial download to splines in A:M... less than 10 minutes.

 

Verdict: Go get it!

(Thanks for the heads up John!)

[Rodney]

Need more reason to download and install?

 

Xara Xtreme has a very nice raster to vector converter!

 

Here is the results of my recently drawn roto converted to splines via default settings:

[markw]

Sadly Windows only and not for the likes of me and my Mac

[johnl3d]

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[robcat2075]

Does it have traditional vector tools where you put down CPs and adjust biases?

[Rodney]

Does it have traditional vector tools where you put down CPs and adjust biases?

 

Not the best or most intuitive in my opinion but 'Yes'.