With these essentials in mind, here are 10 of the best Adobe Illustrator alternatives: Similarly, What program can I use instead of Adobe Illustrator? It’s not free, so if you’re looking for a free alternative, you could try Vectornator or Adobe Illustrator Draw. The best iPad alternative is Affinity Designer. We updated the graphics used in our templates according his recommendations.There are many alternatives to Adobe Illustrator for iPad if you are looking for a replacement. Manfred did a great job analysing the new iOS 7 App Icon. You should read Exploring iOS 7 Rounded Corners from Manfred Schwind. For example, the AppIconTemplate-29.png is 29×29 pixels width/height, the is 58×58, and so forth. The PNG files follow (more or less) Apple’s naming convention. Once the script is done you will see a bunch of PNG icons in various sizes in the same directory as your SVG file resides. If you are on a Linux box you have to change the script a bit: you have to provide the right path to your Inkscape binary. If you don’t have Inkscape the script will not work. Resize.sh uses Inkscape in a headless mode to export the SVG to PNGs. Execute resize.sh from within a Terminal.

Next, you run the resize.sh script to create PNG files of your App icon in various sizes.

No worries, the icon will be masked by Apple automatically. There should be no guides visible and the mask (those round corners) should disappear. Once you are done with designing, disable the GRID, MASK and BORDER layers. Add your artwork to the Foreground and Background layer. The layers GRID, MASK, and BORDER help you to design your icon. You can download the SVG template and the script here.ĭownload and extract the archive. For easy export we wrote a small script to quickly render your App icon in all sizes you will need for iOS development. So we created our own SVG App Icon Template for iPad and iPhone 7 Apps.

There are a couple of IOS 7 App Icon Template for Photoshop available, but none for Inkscape. We here at Kodira are fond of Inkscape, a great vector graphics editor to edit SVG files.

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