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by HissingMachine 2536 days ago
This is great, I think that vector tools need much more competition. I have used most of them through the years, obviously, Illustrator has been the main package for most of it, though recently I have switched more to Affinity Designer, Inkscape and Krita, which has basic vector tools these days. Though I have to say I'm a bit disappointed that VectorStyler is Mac exclusive which rules it out for me sadly. I have nothing against proprietary and paid software, but I do try to at least get one that is multi-platform since I use Windows and Linux.

But I have a lot of co-workers who use Mac and as a fellow Finn I'm absolutely going to ping them to this.

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Moi, Having a Windows port is on the roadmap. The base framework and UI has been compiled, the main roadblock is a boatload of Apple Metal compute code (for GPU). But there is also OpenCL (available in the Preferences) already so that might help (never tried OpenCL on Windows), or just going DirectCompute, but that is a much bigger effort. NVidia CUDA support could also be a way to go, but that limits GPU support to NVidia only.

As for Linux, well lets keep an open mind.

But let your Mac co-workers try VectorStyler out, and let me know how it works for them.