If you can do without it that's fine. But your use case does not in any way apply to mine. There are certain features in Adobe's software not found anywhere else. But more important than that none of Adobe's rivals can open Adobe generated AI, EPS and PDF files from corporate clients with 100% accuracy. But we've been over these same points way too many times before. I don't know why you keep trying to debate this $#!+ with me. So you don't like "SaaS". Why continue repeating that point? I've heard it already and so has anyone else who has come within the vicinity of these conversations.
Absolutely true, just like your situation doesn't apply to everyone else as well.
Using specifics, please describe this so-called 2-3 year old PC that fails to meet Windows 11 criteria. What are the hardware specs and price point on this new-ish machine that can't be upgraded? I would be surprised if this "obsolete" hardware was any better than entry level.
This was mainly for those that were purchased at box stores (which a lot of ones on here do, at least based on what they post). Which has it's own set of issues as well. The thing is, while you continue to move the goal post, there are computers that are purchased
new (even though the internals may not be quite as new as one would hope as far as when they were originally released to the public) that still do not qualify for the updates that still get used in some capacity in the production cycle in businesses.
How is a plugin for Inkscape any better than the Illustrator plugins from companies like Graphtec and Roland? The Mac platform still doesn't have anything equivalent to full blown "CAS" applications like Flexi, SignLab, etc. It's just vinyl cutter plugins. The fact remains the Mac platform has far fewer options for sign making software than the Windows platform. Heck, even in terms of plugins for mainstream drawing applications like CorelDRAW and Illustrator the Windows platform has OSX beat by miles. There are many more choices available.
Well, it all depends on what one needs as to if it's better or not. I actually use File->Print versus an extension. Although I have used that one as well, but it has been a long time.
Going back to what extension that I do use for Inkscape and still do and have kept up with it's development. Compared that to a $3k extension, it's able to do one thing that the $3k program doesn't do (which my machines have that optional package, not many do here in the states at least not direct thru OEM add-ons), but the $3k plugin has a better way of handling fonts at this point in time(although it's getting better). Font handling, does not bother me as much as I am able to handle things better using the other tools compared to what is auto generated (think live/power trace with even worse results) and generate better quality. I am not generated that raw file manually, I may tweak it manually, but I'm not writing it totally from scratch.
How about the factor of TIME? It takes infinitely less time to prep routing table files using a professional application like EnRoute than tinker with G-Code by hand through some cheapskate work-around.
I'm talking about tweaking, NOT doing everything by scratch. This would be like taking the direct/group tool and moving a few node points around after you used the primitives and pathfinding tools etc to generate a shape. Or is your aversion to tweaking so much, that even using the direct/group tool out of the question? Any time that one uses the spin boxes to manipulate numerical values of the objects, doing the same thing that I am talking about. It just is wrapped up in a nice GUI. Some programs have that wrapped up in a nice GUI, Inkscape for manipulating SVG markup, is another example. But doing all the same thing. Some programs have that, some do not. Some have it for some things, and not for others.
Have you ever had a time when after you did everything in your CAD program and one little corner or stretch, just didn't do right? For whatever reason, the program hiccup and generate something that was a little hinky (I have in those $15k programs, in all programs, but I wanted to make sure that it was known that it was experienced by the ubber expensive ones as well, at least with the $15k versions, they actually do include a sub-window for manipulating at the granular level, the cheaper versions do not (and a lot of competitor commercial versions do not), even though they have the same engine, same hiccups)? I'm talking about going in and fixing that and only that one little area. That is vastly different compared to doing everything from scratch.
Although, the more I think about it, is it really the act of the tweaks or is it because it's not in a pretty GUI?
I've never been big on having entire conversations via text over a smart phone. After 2 or 3 messages I'm very done with the typing bull$#!+ and going to go 100% ignore if the conversation doesn't continue via a voice phone call.
I agree which is why I don't do this on the phone, I wait until I have a better means of handling the typing. Especially when phones went to all "soft" buttons. It was far better when there was tactile buttons with some resistance there. Although they never were clicky, I must have my clicky as well.
Anyone who wants to call me an old f@rt for having that attitude can go **** themselves. Time is valuable. .
HAHAHAH. If I were to have said that, the hypocrisy would have been too much.
Nah, while I may have disagree with your hot takes on the variety of subjects, for the most part, compared to a lot of other people, you at least stayed with a more discussion and not so much filled with ad hominem.
I have my old fart moments as well and it's attitude related. It's all based on the lack of control that we have with the tools that we use. Where I can, I tend to be more proactive in what I use that enables more freedom for me to do what I want. Not always going to be the case, but I try where I can.
I agree with time equals money, but keep in mind, once a new thing is learned, is that time difference still the same? I firmly believe that people should always be re-evaulating if something could be done better or differently (as long as it makes sense to do so, not always going to be the case and not always going to be the same outcome from one person to the next).
For instance, I switched not only software but platforms (not cold turkey, I wouldn't suggest that) and there was a learning curve and that did cost time. Now, I am actually far more efficient with the new platform compared to the old one (and I still only have yrs experience with it as my main OS on bare metal, versus decades of experience with the other). I have a script/macro to where I can export machine files (5 of them from one source if talking about what I sell as stock files) for a multitude of source files and the pdf production chart for each of them (so 6 files in total per source file), zip it up, name the zip file, and cleanup the individual files as they are already in the zip file. It took me about 30min to come up with the script that worked flawlessly. It doesn't even take a minute to perform that action on a few hundred files (the most that I have done with this particular script) and I still use it. How long do you think that it would have taken to do that one at a time like you would have to do in Ai or DRAW (there is no way to run those programs headless, so the resource consumption is even moreso, which affects time performing those actions as well). I easily recouped my 30 min dev time and that was looking at stackoverflow for just about every segment of that script. And I still use that script, so it's still saving time, beyond that initial use (even using keyboard shortcuts, it's still not as quick as that script on a file by file basis).
Now, have to make sure that what you are working on makes sense to do that, is it going to be just used once or more and if once, is it worth it, in this case how many files is it going to be applied to etc? I, however, would not say that just because it is something new that has to be learned and that takes away from the time=value on the front end, that it isn't worth while over the long haul.
