Starting the uninstall process brought up the Creative Cloud manager program, which immediately started updating… or so it says. Writing this post inspired me to go uninstall my old Adobe programs from when I had a Creative Cloud subscription. People can make very nice artwork with it though.

The only way to maintain access to the software is to perpetually rent it from Adobe for a somewhat high price, and when/if you stop paying, the software stops functioning - good for Adobe’s bottom line, bad for anyone who isn’t making a living with it.

I also find the bitmap to vector conversion to be terrible, worse than Inkscape and far, far inferior to Vector Magic (which does an excellent job). Not the biggest deal if you have two squares to deal with, but a total PITA if you have 100. two squares that don’t overlap, each made of four individual lines with their endpoints connected) in a single step without drawing an additional (pointless) line between them. And it can’t join multiple sets of touching-but-separated lines (eg. Also, its apparently unable to open DXFs with splines in them without ruining them. Last I saw the software doesn’t even have the option of reversing the direction of zoom when you scroll. You’re right though, the fact that I hate it doesn’t mean it’s a toy. Notice that the bed outline didn't move, which isn't a problem since it's always hidden when you export to OpenScad, but there are some importing issues with coordinates and objects using r12.Įither way I just use r14 and always 'save as' dxf r14 from inkscape, if you have a need for r12 there are good extensions or you can just save it as a separate template.Nearly every time I’ve used Illustrator I’ve hated the experience.

With the center point at x=0, y=100 it will now export to x=0,y=0 in Openscad: Notice that the coordinates are way off, but you can set up a template for r12 by moving your bed outline: You can still use r12 but you will need to move the origin of your template and r12 has some quirks with converting paths to lines and coordinates and I always export to r14 for this reason. If you have issues with the dxf export it may be because by default Inkscape exports the dxf file as a r12 dxf, so you will always need to 'save as' and make sure you are using r14.

Inkscape dxf export