May 04 2023, 10:10

Recommend a vector editor for MacOS that is a) free and b) fast.

UPDATE: The latest Inkscape is very snappy, especially if you switch the UI theme to Minwaita. Eventually, I do everything in it.

For raster graphics, I barely found Krita, which is great. GIMP (raster) and Inkscape (vector) are ridiculously slow, making them unusable (this is on an i9 32Gb). From a vector program, I need nothing more than smooth operation and most basic features – lines, splines, ellipses, layers, guides. Specifically, I would like to have a simple way to perform perspective transformation of arbitrary shapes. Like, create a drawing of a tile on a plane, and stretch it into a trapezoid. Inkscape would be suitable if it weren’t so sluggish. Maybe someone knows a magic way to make it faster (and GIMP too). Although it’s clear that the slowdown is due to GTK/Cairo, which traditionally lags on Mac.