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Artboard is a simple and direct vector drawing application that includes everything you need to create your own graphics and illustrations.
Artboard delivers with hundreds of awesome styles and fully editable clip art, including speech bubbles, shiny buttons, maps and flags, people factory, and home planning. Artboard stands apart with powerful stacked styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke, providing a wide range of spectacular effects.
Design logos, posters, floor plans, technical drawings, fun fashions, Web graphics, and more.
Artboard delivers with hundreds of awesome styles and fully editable clip art, including speech bubbles, shiny buttons, maps and flags, people factory, and home planning. Artboard stands apart with powerful stacked styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke, providing a wide range of spectacular effects.
Design logos, posters, floor plans, technical drawings, fun fashions, Web graphics, and more.
What's New
Version 1.9.1:
Bug Fixes
- A problem where rough strokes would not appear correctly when used with certain objects was fixed.
- A problem where invalid objects in a file could cause other objects in the same layer to be skipped, making the layer become empty, was fixed.
- A problem where forcing a shape's width or height to zero could cause Artboard to crash on OS X 10.9 was fixed.
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6.6 or later
| Downloads:11,226 |
| Version Downloads:496 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:13 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price: $29.99 |
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Artboard is a simple and direct vector drawing application that includes everything you need to create your own graphics and illustrations.
Artboard delivers with hundreds of awesome styles and fully editable clip art, including speech bubbles, shiny buttons, maps and flags, people factory, and home planning. Artboard stands apart with powerful stacked styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke, providing a wide range of spectacular effects.
Design logos, posters, floor plans, technical drawings, fun fashions, Web graphics, and more.
Simple. Powerful. Fun.
Key features of Artboard:
Artboard delivers with hundreds of awesome styles and fully editable clip art, including speech bubbles, shiny buttons, maps and flags, people factory, and home planning. Artboard stands apart with powerful stacked styles that go way beyond simple fill and stroke, providing a wide range of spectacular effects.
Design logos, posters, floor plans, technical drawings, fun fashions, Web graphics, and more.
Simple. Powerful. Fun.
Key features of Artboard:
- Over 20 simple and direct tools for drawing rectangles, stars, circles, lines, curves, text and navigating
- Pre-designed templates to create fliers, invitations, signs, and business cards
- Beautifully rendered text available with outline, shadow, mask, and text on path
- Perfectly crisp anti-aliased graphics
- Layers-based drawing
- Smooth Bezier curves
- Page and poster-tiled printing
- Automatic graph paper
- Pen tablet support
- Export for Web and print the most popular graphics formats PNG, JPG, PDF, and TIFF supporting resolutions from 72 to 600-dpi
- Quick access to iPhoto, Pictures folder, and Smart folders via Image Browser
- Drag-and-drop between popular productivity apps
- Many more features
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1goncat reviewed on 10 Mar 2014
But I was looking for something a bit more robust, that would output to SVG files, and ArtBoard only outputs to bitmap files. Which is great for kids & dabblers, but not for any serious design work.
I eventually bought iDraw because it exports to SVG. However, I was very disappointed in iDraw, since it is extremely limited, with only basic draw functions. It has a very rigid, unintuitive interface that can't be customized at all & has very few shortcuts, making even simple jobs tedious.
Then I discovered that the NeoOffice suite (the open-source app that rivals MS Office) includes a vector draw program that does WAY more than iDraw. It is very easy to learn & use, infinitely customizable, reasonably stable on OS 10.8, and it's absolutely free because it open-source. It has many advanced features, like envelope-warping, auto-trace, 3D & animations, none of which iDraw does.
I'm a veteran FreeHand user, (the legendary professional vector drawing program that put Illustrator to shame - which is why Adobe bought it & killed it). And I can recommend NeoDraw to anyone looking for a serious vector draw program. While NeoDraw doesn't come close to being FreeHand, it will do until something better comes along. And you can't beat the price..
Meanwhile, I'd recommend ArtBoard to anyone looking for a fun, simple, easy to use drawing app.
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David-Morrison reviewed on 02 Feb 2013
I have been looking at all sorts of things for years and nothing has had the same ease of use. I saw a reference to Artboard, and thought I would try it on a project.
I could see it had a lot of features, but what used to be a single click in MacDraw seems to be several clicks in Artboard. For example, even if the Text tool is selected, you cannot just click on text to edit it, you have to right click and select Edit Text.
After two hours, I gave up. Very frustrating. A shame really.
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After a very long search I have finally found something akin to MacDraw and Claris Draw and the Draw module of Apple/Claris Works.
LibreOffice
Hope this helps!
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Big77 reviewed on 01 Dec 2012
It does some pretty neat stuff for an app this inexpensive, like applying crazy styles to text. Handles layers just fine and has the typical vector object manipulation tools. I really like this app and I'm watching its progress with interest.
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Phillat5dock reviewed on 15 Sep 2012
I was looking for something that would do what Microsoft Word will do in its drawing module, but without the overhead of a word processor or the complexity and price of Adobe Illustrater.
What is more I have fond memories of ClarisWorks/Appleworks and its sensible drawing module. So many people (and developers it seems) confuse drawing programs (vector graphics) with "paint" programs (bit mapped).
Artboard is the best of what I looked at. I particularly wanted to import an image(bit mapped) and then add text with arrows (call outs) So many of the other apps seemed incapable of just sitting the graphic on the page. Some had quite idiosyncratic work flows. Artboard just impressed because it worked out of the box, and the price is reminiscent of MacPaint.
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Pugwash reviewed on 22 Jan 2012
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Mookzmom reviewed on 11 Aug 2011
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Obviously, you cannot expect save, export, and printing from trial software, nor can you expect it to open every available vector file type.
The purpose of the trial software generally is to see if you like the interface well enough to improve your productivity that you would be motivated to purchase it.
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dsimer rated on 10 Sep 2013
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MooreSusan_UK rated on 09 Jun 2011
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Martin J rated on 16 Mar 2011