Illustration Software

What do *you* use when it comes to create illustrations for presentations, articles or books? I know quite some people are using M$ Powerpoint do draw their figures and export them into their articles. But this cannot be it! Any recommendations? Just wondering what’s out there – totally OS agnostic…

24. March 2004 | presentations

tcurdt

Might be true the results are good with Illustrator ...but I rather like to have some more support for the particular task. An icon library, being able to change the whole design with a snap, support for diagrams and things like that. In this terms SmartDraw is not too bad. But some of the handling sucks badly!
tcurdt

I just found SmartDraw. I am currently trying their 30 days trial. But Omnigraffle looks much better (at least from what I can see from the screenshots) Naaahh... another reason to switch to OSX. I wish I could use OpenOffice Draw but it's still a PITA to use for such figures.
Alan Gutierrez

Me too! I'd like to know since I'm about to put some presentations together in PowerPoint. Omnigraffle looks like the way to go.

Is there a good, simple, image manipulation program out there? Something simpiler than Photoshop.
Andrew Savory

I use Omnigraffle. It somehow takes even the worst-drawn diagrams and turns them into eye candy. Things just look better from the Mac ;-)

Not sure there's a good OS-agnostic solution. When I was on Windows I'd use Xara. I guess illustration packages are about as OS-tied as it gets.

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Illustration Software