Lineform 1.5 update lost in the Macworld shuffle

Chalk this one up to bad press release timing: we neglected to note the release of a major update to Freeverse's Lineform vector art application, announced on January 14 (otherwise known as Steve's Eve). The new version includes full Leopard support and adds hooks for drawing tablet pressure sensitivity, plus many smaller feature and performance updates.

Lineform 1.5 is $79.95 either direct from Freeverse or in convenient boxed form via Apple or Amazon. The 8.1 MB demo is downloadable as well. If you're a forlorn Freehand veteran or facing off sticker shock for Illustrator, take a look.Lineform 1.5 release notes (via freeverse.com)

What's New:

Full tablet pressure support
Full custom brush support and multiple colorisation methods
Full OS X 10.5 Leopard support, including QuickLook support
New Document palette containing document info, brush info and grid
New Document info metadata (author, title, etc.)
New layer palette
- Complete object tree
- Graphic selection and state display
- Drag and drop
- Layer selection effects and filters possible
- New isolation mode toggle Cmd-/ -- for layers and groups

What's Better:

Improved PDF parsing
Improved recent font handling
Improved artistic brush selection
Improved Core Image filters
Updated media browser
Faster document scrolling, soft preview and updating
Performance improvements
Many other improvements

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Source: http://news.freeverse.com/archives/001268.php

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Pedro

LineForm is an excelent app for illustration and does a great job to replace adobe illustration. It is very fast and it is far better in interface and user friendly. The learning curve is also very fast. However the major lack for me is the absence of capability to read and write adobe illustrator files. I hope such features will be add in the near future.

February 04 2008 at 8:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

HineyWipe

A great app with one flaw: it prevents a monopolistic suit filing against Adobe since CorelDraw is dead and Freehand absorbed.

Ok, one more flaw: price. Yes, it should never be more than $50. Its been slowly creeping up $10/yr and now, its starting to add features that...WE DON'T NEED!

The future is bloat. Stop the future!

February 01 2008 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Lang

I'm not the best one to compare and contrast vector art apps, but I needed to quickly generate a company logo vector art and found it very easy to do with Lineform. In my particular case I needed to perform some intersection with some shapes, and it was very easy to do with Lineform. It seems like a reasonably robust app, which is about the most you can ask for given the price.

February 01 2008 at 1:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply