* PhotoLine<\/a><\/strong>. Been around for decades, constantly developed from Germany, never publicised or marketed. A reasonable price for a perfectly capable graphics\/vector editor and extremely lightweight (take note, Photoshop). <\/p>\n The only problem is that the interface elements are offputtingly microscopic when you start it up. Changing them is deeply buried in File | Options. But once the icon size is increased, it can look pretty good. Apparently you can edit the interface icons, if you want it looking exactly like Photoshop, hem hem<\/em>. It also has Actions, just like Photoshop. And can run Photoshop plugins. For $66. A nice find. <\/p>\n * Serif’s DrawPlus (later replaced by Affinity Designer, with the .SWF export said to be removed there). The old DrawPlus is perfectly capable and is available as an X3\/X4 DVD (or higher, 2015’s X8 being the most recent) for pocket-money prices on eBay. It seems the ideal solution for those on a tight budget, re: balancing price\/power.<\/p>\n * Also, Poser can render and save<\/a> to the .SWF format. It’s not a drawing software, obviously, but good to know. See my older post on this blog, on wrangling a .SWF from Poser.<\/p>\n * Electric Rain’s old Swift 3D 6.0 (last updated summer 2009) could import 3D models and export .SWF. It was stand-alone Windows software, and mostly seems to have been used as “a spinning 3D logo maker”, though the RAViX engine was quite capable of doing sophisticated CAD-like line art with shading, and version 4.5 introduced a funkier little ‘pen’ setting for basic doodle-like renders.<\/p>\n * Creature House Expression 3.3. Free, nice tools, but appears to output the wrong type of .SWF for CTA.<\/p>\n Others, all relatively expensive and with learning curves:<\/p>\n * CorelDRAW<\/strong>. Probably a good choice for advanced artists, but bear in mind that Cartoon Animator requires relatively simple vectors.<\/p>\n * Smith Micro’s Anime Studio<\/strong>, now Moho<\/strong>. Poser import, and exports to MotionArtist, at least to Moho 13.0.x but probably not after.<\/p>\n * Toon Boom<\/strong>, the rival to Moho.<\/p>\n * Adobe Illustrator<\/strong>. Urgh. <\/p>\n ‘Software say NO’:<\/p>\n * LibreOffice Draw<\/strong>. Claims to do .SWF, but the test output was empty.<\/p>\n * Inkscape<\/strong>. Doesn’t do the .SWF format, and an ancient plugin no longer works.<\/p>\n * Vector Magic<\/strong>. Nope.<\/p>\n * Flip Boom<\/strong>. A $40 Toon Boom for kids, very easy to use and with .SWF export. Sadly this is utterly unavailable now.<\/p>\n * Pencil 2D<\/a><\/strong>. Once said to have .SWF export, but that feature is now nowhere to be found when tested.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/swf.jpg\")
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