I tried to use Adobe Illustrator today. This was a mistake. I spent **one hour** trying to fix a stray/misaligned anchor in a mesh object's edge before I gave up. No amount of Googling explained what the fuck was going on.
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All of this would've been three clicks in Inkscape: select the problem nodes, click the "make straight edge" button, click the "align vertically" button. Maybe click on and hit delete on any unnecessary nodes, though by then they wouldn't be a problem anyway.
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After one hour I gave up, opened the AI file in PDF mode in Inkscape, and re-created the gradient meshes (which were the only thing that doesn't get imported properly). This took less than half the time I wasted trying and failing to fix **one edge** in Illlustrator.
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I don't care what "it's a complicated program and you don't know what to use it" excuses people default to, if I can't open your vector editor and... figure out how to make a trivial change... in one hour... with Google searches... and export is broken... then it's garbage.
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I have no idea how "professionals" find that piece of utter trash usable or tolerable. This is completely insane.
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Illustrator (bugs + workarounds) is what thousands of designers depend upon. Having worked on a similar proprietary Software company, mostly this old software is hold together by glue. Rewrites are nearly impossible. In the end you can explain all with economics/profit.
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