I have being following this thread and I would like to add my two cents.
I am a PC Windows XP user and I had designed with both Corel Draw and Illustrator, until I discovered the specific lace programs: first Lace Designer 3.1, and the update to Lace Designer Gold later Lace 2000,the last one of Il-Soft RXP, and Knipling from Petra Pönisch.
I currently work with RXP or Knipling, depending of the drawing I have to do. I feel comfortable drawing geometrical patterns with RXP, because of the user friendly tool of layers and the possibility of printing according wit predetermined threads, but I do not like the polar grid solution that it brings.
Knipling, although I have to admit that it is a more complex program, it is better solved, mathematically speaking, and this is something very important when working with curves and polar grids.
Round grids, circles and ovals, the possibility to do equidistant ribbons, distort elements and other very interesting tools give me a lot of possibilities and surpass my expectation.
Really, every program it is sure that will find the appropriate user and vice versa.
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