Along with the Apple Pencil you have to press one, two or even three fingers onto the screen elsewhere to modify an anchor point from a smooth point to a corner point, one that's symmetrical, etc. The pen tool is usable in both applications, but it takes some adjustment to get used to it in both apps. I've been noodling around with the pen tool a little more in Autodesk Graphic as well as Vectornator 2. It's very easy to get spoiled to that keyboard shortcut system. I'm not only using those keys to adjust anchor points, but also adjusting my view (zooming & hand panning) while drawing the path. When I use the desktop versions of Illustrator and Photoshop my left hand fingers are on the Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Spacebar keys constantly. A pen tool isn't worth much unless you can change the nature and position of the anchor points as the path is being drawn. As I said earlier up-thread if Adobe were to put a pen tool in Illustrator Draw I'd not only like to see the standard keyboard shortcuts for the tool supported, but I'd also like on-screen modifier keys if a keyboard is not attached. That app has a lot of the usual vector drawing tools and its documentation says it supports the standard keyboard shortcuts. It used to cost $8 in the app store, but is now apparently free. I hadn't heard of Vectornator Pro before. ![]() For anything more than really simple projects I end up having to fire up desktop applications to get the work done. That makes it impossible to adjust anchor points on the fly as paths are being drawn with the pen tool. It does not respond to the standard keyboard shortcuts used by the pen tool in the desktop versions of Illustrator and Photoshop. It’s helpful to know we’ve at least been heard.Īutodesk Graphic works okay, but its pen tool is pretty limited. ![]() Obviously Adobe doesn’t owe us anything, and I am immensely grateful for what they’ve offered in other apps, but this decision just seems so illogical to me. But considering they thought it was good idea to make the pen tool the icon for an app that doesn’t even have one, who knows where their logic is at. can they? It’s not like it’s just confined to this thread. Adobe can’t possibly be so out of touch with their consumers that they don’t see that there’s a huge market for people that are desperate for a decent pen tool on their iPad. ![]() It’s just “yeah, we know, and aren’t doing anything.” I mean, other apps are (thankfully) doing it, though they’re not as streamlined yet and don’t integrate well with Adobe’s other apps. I’m still in disbelief about this, and unless I missed it, don’t see an actual reason why Adobe‘s mobile team isn’t working on implementing it in Draw or a new, separate app not even something like an “It’s so much harder than you realize” explanation. We know you can do it! On behalf of all the loyal working illustrators and lifelong Adobe enthusiasts out there. But their apps I am sure won't be of the same quality or have the cloud integration I've come to love from Adobe's Creative Suite.Ĭome on Adobe! I beg of you! Make our dreams come true and solve this first-world problem. Yes, I could buy an app from one of the many third-party developers who have rushed in to fill Adobe's void. When an illustrator or designer friend asks me if Adobe has a vector drawing tool for iPad Pro I have to say, sadly "No." ![]() But without a Bézier pen tool Adobe Draw is essentially Adobe Sketch with vector output. It makes perfect sense to make a clean break from outmoded input paradigms when developing apps for mobile vs desktop. It's the icon used in the Adobe Draw app and yet it is nowhere to be found in the toolset. It is the defining tool of Adobe Illustrator. I'm not sure what the developers were thinking when they decided to omit the Bézier pen tool in Adobe Draw.
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