Comments on: Vector Magic Leaves Stanford: No Longer Free - Desktop Coming Soon

By: mamba

mamba — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:53:16 +0000

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By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:11:22 +0000

I don’t think it’s too much for software that can save hours and hours of tedious manual tidy up. The other vector conversion apps are useless for CNC conversion as they leave way too much noise.

As an ex-software developer this attitude that all software should cost peanuts or be free really annoys me.

Plus there’s no virus that’s just over sensitive scanners.

By: Lachlan McDonald

Lachlan McDonald — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:01:56 +0000

Its sad that such an insanely handy piece of software is so insanely overpriced and a completely unrealistic purchase, even for design companies.

By: 17k

17k — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:52:44 +0000

exc: 189 euros!

By: 17k

17k — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:49:27 +0000

REASONABLE PRICE!??!

189 DOLLARS!!!
you, thieves!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:51:49 +0000

$295 for an application that does 1 thing! WTF? They gotta be nutz!

Bizen, What Virus?

By: TECK

TECK — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:17:21 +0000

295 WTF!~

By: bizen

bizen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:26:24 +0000

Well, it’s *not* reasonably priced AND they give you a nice little virus with your download! Way to ruin a potentially great product!

By: Mike austin

Mike austin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:25:00 +0000

All you have to do is get multi emails addresses, and they give you 2 free tokens…. I have 100 left.

By: Casey Wise

Casey Wise — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:04:55 +0000

That’s a shame about VM. I became addicted rather quickly. It’s intuitive and as precise as one could hope for. I agree with whoever said it up above, it can’t be a web app for a fee and still be considered a web app. I completely understand that they need to make money off of it, damn it had like 3600 diggs. They’d be fools to not prosper off of it’s popularity/superiority.

If I were VM I would make whatever moves required to get acquired by Adobe. Adobe’s a huge company and Live Trace, just doesn’t cut the mustard quite like VM. Between Inkscape and Corel, Adobe’s already behind the curve on vectorization and if it’s painfully apparent to me, I’m sure there’re teams of intelligent adults over at Adobe living the reality of inferior vectorization. With their resources, I’m sure they can match and outdo VM’s capabilities just by deciding to. But wouldn’t it just be cheaper to acquire and integrate VM? Who knows? It seems like they’re very “hungry” over there at VM, so it could go either way and not surprise me.

What would surprise me is if CS4 (or whatever they’re gonna call it) didn’t include bitmap vectorization functionality >= that which VM brings to the table. Imagery is what Adobe does and they’re always looking for ways to improve. 3600 diggs are very noisy.

By: Daniel Reeders

Daniel Reeders — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:33:17 +0000

Yeah I nearly cried when I saw that — I loved VM at Stanford. The quality was near-enough-is-good-enough but I loved it for the simplicity of the shapes it produces, something I could never squeeze out of Illustrator’s Live Trace. $50 is a lot but if it came with a couple of years’ updates I would seriously consider it. I work in the non-profit sector where everyone has only a crufty old bitmap logo from the mid-90’s, so VM was a godsend.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:17:23 +0000

It is really a shame I used it too . ..

By: Matt Rossi

Matt Rossi — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:51:35 +0000

Bastards! Ah well, I guess we will just have to wait until some other startup puts one out for free. Or stop being lazy and create them on our own heh.

Why wouldnt they just leave it free and make the money off advertising?

By: RoarTheLion

RoarTheLion — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:23:19 +0000

If you register before March 5th you get 4 tokens free- get on it before you get nothing free.

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box.zabox.net — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:35:27 +0000

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By: gunter

gunter — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:52:01 +0000

damn .. that really is sad news :(

By: Ricky@Tshirttank.com

Ricky@Tshirttank.com — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:34:20 +0000

This is really total crap!! I loved Vector Magic and i know these money craving fucknuts are gonna try and stick a giant metal razor sharp dildo up everyones ass and twist it around until we all vomit shit from our noses.. How do you take something free and wonderful, that is clearly just a benefit to mankind and stick a fucking $2.73 cent virtual reality token dispenser on it?? I fucking hate you Stanford bastards…it was a wonderful thing having that site free…a gift, that made the world a better place…..now you are no better than the other putrid shit members of modern corporate America. Thanks you cocksuckers for making technology and art a tool for only those with money….bastards!

By: Get Free Tokens for Vector Magic : Design Bliss

Get Free Tokens for Vector Magic : Design Bliss — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:03:00 +0000

[...] BittBox beat me to the punch earlier this week getting the word out about Vector Magic’s decision to start charging folks for raster-to-vector conversions. I personally found Vector Magic to do a better job than Adobe Illustrator at conversions so I am sorry to see this happen and think the base prices seem too high (starting out at $2.63 for a single conversion). There’s promise of a desktop application, but with indications that it will cost over $50, most designers are none too pleased about that either. [...]

By: Dr. Girlfriend

Dr. Girlfriend — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:15:10 +0000

I bookmarked VM’s site after I saw it here on bittbox, then when I finally needed to use it, they were charging a fee. I was like, WTF? Forget it.

They use all of these bloggers to get a name for themselves and then stick it to people by not even offering a 30 demo or something. Lame.

I won’t be purchasing it. Even the example files I tried it on needed lots of modification to make it look professional, so if I have to do the work afterwards anyway, I’d just rather do the entire file myself in Illustrator.

By: dcescott

dcescott — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:43:06 +0000

About the logo. Those look like Google colors, get rid of the stupid black stroke on everything. It looks cheapened like a bad t shirt design.