Requium

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Intaglio should be renamed Requium.

Its DEAD.

Been there done that with Lineform, Freehand.

Has an awful smell of a dying programme:

Developer won’t answer e-mails.

Four years since last upgrade.

Sorry guys the Fat Lady is singing……

Trying another bus named Sketch….

David Architect NSW


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On 19/05/2012, at 10:34 AM, David Leigh wrote:

Intaglio should be renamed Requium.

Its DEAD.

Really really sad to have to agree. In particular, the promise of it sharing drawings with Sketchpad on iOS was never lived up to, with their being flattened going through SVG, and Sketchpad scaling bugs are still outstanding from long ago.

Loved much of the product features on both platforms.


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This is one of the problems with the internet, children get to pretend to be adults. What purpose does a post like this serve?

Intaglio does what I need, there are a few things that it doesn’t, but if you asked the users for a list, they would come up with 100 different requests, and then we would get Illustrator.

I am publishing a new book next month with illustrations prepared by Intaglio and Canvas, another dead programme that works perfectly well.

Sorry to the rest of the board for feeding the troll, but David Leigh, if that it your real name, learn to spell Requiem before you post.


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It’s obviously not true that Intaglio is ‘dead’ - the last update to Intaglio was 3.2.1 in, IIRC, February.

Intaglio is a tool. The priority is for it to do what it is supposed to do reliably and predictably. Bug-fixes and stability are more important than new features.

Over the last four years there have been a lot of incremental improvements and the stability has improved greatly.


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Well said Max. :slight_smile:

regards,

Tom

On 19 May 2012, at 07:43, Max Roberts email@hidden wrote:

This is one of the problems with the internet, children get to pretend to be adults. What purpose does a post like this serve?

Intaglio does what I need, there are a few things that it doesn’t, but if you asked the users for a list, they would come up with 100 different requests, and then we would get Illustrator.

I am publishing a new book next month with illustrations prepared by Intaglio and Canvas, another dead programme that works perfectly well.

Sorry to the rest of the board for feeding the troll, but David Leigh, if that it your real name, learn to spell Requiem before you post.


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Good or bad, agreed or no, this is a sign to push forward with the Intaglio development!

We are not agreed to these offensive posts stating that this is a sh@##y application. We still use this application.

I use it for so much different things that I barely can’t live without it. I simply don’t care if it is or is not developed because it helps me so much!

But yes I agree that this could stay small, compact and could be MUCH better.

Nick → maybe just take few most reasonable people here and make some changes with their proposals?

Yes, I believe that this will evolve into something positive :slight_smile:

BTW: There will ALWAYS be one who will make some bad and critics!


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Max, please let us know when and where I can get hold of a copy of your book. I’ve been waiting to treat myself to a copy of this for a while (especially after basing part of my degree in design on visual communication via the London underground map).

regards,

Tom

On 19 May 2012, at 07:43, Max Roberts email@hidden wrote:

I am publishing a new book next month


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Will do, I will create a new thread. Also, I will update my web page, www.tubemapcentral.com

Hope to be going to press at the end of the month, then I can work out how to take credit card payments online, although the London Transport Museum will be selling copies.

I do wish that Intaglio gave me more access to control points on Bezier curves. The ways of adding/removing handles and converting from cusp to tangent and back are so clunky that I always reach for Canvas when working with lots of these.

From the back cover:

Underground Maps Unravelled

Travel by public transport in any city around the world, and the chances are that sooner or later you will find a stylised map whose routes have been drawn as straight lines – horizontal, vertical, or diagonal at 45º – joined by tight corners. The geography has been considerably distorted, and most of the surface details are missing, but the people who produced the map hope that you will find it easy to understand, and that it will encourage you to make use of the network more often.

Schematic maps are commonplace, not just in trains and stations, but art galleries and souvenir shops worldwide. They have become part of popular culture, but how successfully are designers achieving their basic objectives: do these maps really make life easier for passengers? This book is the result of over ten years of investigation by a psychologist, exploring the fundamentals of usability.

Too many schematic maps are not fit for purpose, commissioned by managers or created by designers who blindly follow tradition, lacking the ability or inclination to test the work in objective usability studies, and who do not understand how people identify and interpret information in order to make sense of their surroundings. Such maps are either poorly optimised, or else inappropriate design rules have been chosen, incompatible with the structure of the networks that are being mapped.

This book gives an in-depth analysis of how schematic maps assist the user, when they fail, and the psychological theories that explain why. It asks whether traditional design techniques are suited to today’s complex networks, and explores what happens when the rules are broken. The result is an astonishing collection of maps for cities worldwide that challenge preconceptions about the nature of effective design.

Whether you are a graphic designer, transport professional, or just a frustrated commuter, maps will never seem quite the same again


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