{"id":13535,"date":"2020-06-18T23:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2020-06-18T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:51:31","slug":"clipped-for-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/clipped-for-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Clipped for $25"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally plonked down my $25 for Clip Studio, and was pleased to find no nonsense about “you’re in the UK, must pay in \u00a3’s and have 20% sales tax added”. $25 was $25. I can’t say the same about the mini-nightmare that is trying to serialise and register the software, but the initial buying process was painless.<\/p>\n

As a first feature-test I tried vectorising a Comic Book inks test-render from Poser. I first benchmarked it in Inkscape<\/a> (fast, reasonable quality), PhotoLine (fast, but appears to be of iffy quality) and Vector Magic (superb, but takes six minutes). Clip Studio beat them all in vectorisation, by a mile. Instant and accurate, making Clip Studio worth the $25 even if all you want from it is good vectorising tool for lineart. And it’s really easy to use for that, too…<\/p>\n

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I’ve yet to find a way to round-trip it from PhotoLine for this purpose. I suspect it’s not possible to send out a bitmap and return a vector.<\/p>\n

In other news, re: my search for a good tool to make .SWF output for Cartoon Animator… I’ve added a further item to my recent Software that will output .SWF in 2020<\/a> survey post…<\/p>\n

* Serif’s DrawPlus<\/strong> (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, X8 being the most recent) for pocket-money prices on eBay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So either PhotoLine or DrawPlus is the ideal solution re: balancing sub-$100 price\/power. 2015’s DrawPlus X8 would be your ideal target. There was a free DrawPlus Starter Edition (a cut-down X7 version), but apparently one can no longer get an activation code to install it. <\/p>\n

How I didn’t identify DrawPlus on my first pass of searching I don’t know. Anyway, it’s on the list now. <\/p>\n

I should also add, for the benefit of future searchers, that I’ve had no luck finding a third-party .SWF exporter for Clip Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally plonked down my $25 for Clip Studio, and was pleased to find no nonsense about “you’re in the UK, must pay in \u00a3’s and have 20% sales tax added”. $25 was $25. I can’t say the same about the mini-nightmare that is trying to serialise and register the software, but the initial buying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-companion-software","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}