Intaglio

This is a fine program and is able to accomplish a lot. In my humble opinion it falls down in one key area. Ease of use, and that mainly because the documentation is not geared to a wider range of user. The developer goes to great length to point out some of the programs it is replacing "MacDraw - ClarisDraw - Apple Works" There is no doubt INTAGLIO exceeds some of the their capabilities. Therefore the seasoned User will have greater success using this program. However the less seasoned user will encounter the limitations of less than adequate documentation, thereby ease of use. Which the aforementioned programs did have. I did buy this package and shall endeavour to work with it over time. In that way I shall overcome its present shortcomings. Finally, I have read in a review of this program. ( it was not worth its current price but only about 50% of that. In its present form, I would tend to agree. Unless like me one is willing to work at overcoming its short comings. Respectfully submitted. htoelle

Now with iDraw and Affinity Designer, this app is deprecated. Its price is almost twice higher for a clunky GUI that has never evolved, plus the effects use to change vector objects into bitmaps pictures. The layout size management is boring to set up and the fills with textures for example, is not very handy. Was a great app but it hardly needs to be updated nowadays.

Great drawing app. But can't change the font on the dimensions tool. Every time I change it, revert back to helvetica. Same with the rulers, cant create, change units or activate more than one ruler in the prefs, keep reverting back to default. Prefs wont stick. Any ideas?

I love it, by far the most efficient drawing program I have used, and has all the features I need.

REQUIREMENTS: "Intaglio requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 (i.e., Panther) or later. Some features require 10.4." - Purgatory Design (developers of Intaglio). IOW: NOT OS X 10.8. This page is wrong. I personally have it working perfectly on 10.7.5.

'The page size is 19,72 x 27,62 inches (see "Page Setup") Inches!!!! Bah...

Very impressed! Rapid feedback, instant drawing, intuitive, does what I expect it to do. Works on PPC - awesome - I only have PPC! I haven't used it more than just a few minutes, to realize that now I probably won't have to draw my technical drawings in Pages anymore. You can enter the coordinates of the points manually (if you want to fine-tune the coordinates). The Align to grid feature is quite cool. One things I'm missing (it might be able to do it already), is to set the ruler origin at the middle/center of the page.

I've been using Intaglio to do so many things for so long that I was surprised to read some of the negative comments by those who admit they haven’t used it much at all. First, forget about comparisons with other applications. Intaglio is one of a kind, and must be taken on its own merits. I especially wouldn't compare it to Adobe applications, which have determinedly become more Windows-like and less intuitive over the past decade. Anyhow, Intaglio is a powerful drawing app with many features that aren't immediately obvious...and therein lies its biggest weakness — its documentation. You have to know where to look, and what to look for, and even then the explanation is not always clear or complete. I often end up playing with the features to figure out how they work. Intaglio does have some annoying quirks: • The pattern editor desperately needs grid snap, and much better documentation. The pattern editor is hopelessly small, and creating patterns that tile seamlessly can be tricky. • Default font settings, style, and color should be in a Preferences dialog. Why assume that I want Geneva 12 point as my default, and then force me to change it for every new document? The ability to create user-defined text styles would be very useful. • The text ruler is non-intuitive, especially when used with tabs and bullet-point or numbered list text. I usually end up creating the bullet points or list numbers as separate text fields, and then line them up with their associated paragraphs as graphic elements. • The gradients editor is good, but it needs additional gradient styles (for example, the circular and shape burst gradients in AppleWorks 6). There are many, many more plusses than minuses…too many to list. I love the arrow editor, for example, and the masking functions are great. Intaglio integrates well with Freeway Pro for web design, and I use it for the vast majority of my video graphics. A few years ago I needed to make some engineering drawings and went looking for a decent CAD application, only to discover that all of the CAD tools I needed were already available in Intaglio. For all its quirks, Intaglio is still my favorite drawing app. It looks deceptively simple on the surface, but it has a great deal of power under the hood. You won’t discover its virtues with a cursory or superficial glance. I’ve invested the time to learn how to use it, and that investment has paid big dividends.

I agree with Cowicide—the impossibility of globally turning off the grid is really annoying. There isn't even a command-key shortcut for doing it. (I know, use System Preferences.) There are several other rough edges about this program that seem to get fixed very slowly if at all. And at $89, this should not be the case.