Intaglio

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New and long-time Mac users will appreciate Intaglio's simple and adaptable design with easy-to-use toolbars and palettes. It's modeled after traditional drawing programs. As with more expensive graphics programs, drawing in Intaglio is a composite of one or more layers, allowing you to work separately on the various component parts of your image. A wealth of new features in recent versions add cool effects to your projects, slide show capabilities, and an easy-to-use pattern tool bar. Intaglio also takes advantage of the technologies built into Mac OS X, such as CoreImage Effects (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger), AppleScript, Apple Type Services, Quartz rendering, QuickDraw, and QuickTime for importing and exporting bitmap images. Overall, we found Intaglio to be a powerful drawing application that consistently performs well and holds its own in a league of more expensive, powerhouse design programs. From Purgatory Design:

Intaglio is a traditional Macintosh drawing and illustration application exclusively for Mac OS X. Patterned after the original Macintosh drawing applications, Intaglio is intuitive to beginners and familiar to traditional Macintosh users. It builds on the OS X capabilities involving 2D graphics, text, color, and scripting to provide power and flexibility in an inexpensive drawing program. Intaglio isn't just compatible with Mac OS X, it was designed from the ground up to fully exploit the capabilities that make this platform ideal for graphics work.

Version 2.9.5a runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs and adds several features and enhancements including new pattern tools, slideshows, improved bitmap support, and core image effects.

What's new in this version:

Miscellaneous bug fixes.

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"Illustrator Competitor Beyond The Norm"

March 01, 2006   |   By Square_Bones

Version: Intaglio 1.9

Pros

First of all, its very friendly to my eyeballs - lots of well made icons, and clean interface. The tools work very similary to Illustrator, with two types of pointer tool for manipulating objects, layers that can be hidden and locked, snap to grid that can be hidden, rulers with user controlled guides, and much more. This particular version has many bug fixes that caused some crashing, and it now seems quite stable. Many graphic file types can be imported and used for purposes of templating or simply to add to the illustration itself. And with the ability to mask imported graphics with objects, the possiblities are endless.

Cons

The only drawbacks to the simplicity of the interface that I have run into occurs with drawing paths. To close a path one is drawing, one has to hold the option key down while clicking on the first end point (or vector), or one can specify that a path is closed on the fill and strock pallete, or one can select the end and start point and use the Join command on the Path sub-menu. I would rather have the pen tool show a path close indicator as is done in Illustrator, but you can't have everything. Nothing else is really irritating about the program.

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