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Comment by g0ld3nrati0 | Hacker News Reader

Flash editor was the magic

Indeed, Flash UI is really its strenght, the way to draw and manipulate curves, I don't think I've seen anything like it after that, although illustrating is not my trade. However, it is possible to do cool procedurally generated stuff with the drawing API, or use plain normal bitmap graphics to do things.

Adobe’s pen tool across all titles is second to none. There is so much value in just that one tool done right.

This is very true.

I far prefer the pen tool in Macromedia Freehand/MX, to say nothing of the other drawing modes which it offered (and which Adobe later copied).

I might still have an InDesign Subscription if Adobe had just rolled all of Freehand's capabilities into it --- instead, I keep a Windows computer for it and a stylus (despite Windows having crippled stylus functionality in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update) --- which reminds me, stylus usage in Waterfox broke again and I have to look up how to fix it (again).

There is Wick Editor (which I mentioned elsethread)

https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

Unfortunately, it's been abandoned for a while now.

That is unfortunate.

Other similar projects?

Another reason for me to knuckle down and write my own (programmable) drawing program....

There are some forks of it that seem more recent:

1. Candlestick https://github.com/Candlestickers/Candlestick

2. StickmanRed’s Fork https://github.com/StickmanRed/wick-editor

3. This brand new fork: https://forum.wickeditor.com/t/started-my-own-fork-luke-tool...

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