Gravit designer is a vector graphics design application free and multi platform, which allows us to use it on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and even Chrome OS, in addition to this, this application has a web version which allows us to use the application from any current web browser.
The program has unmatched precision in any unit (Pixels, MM, CM, etc.) from job creation to job export.
gravity designer offers many features and automatic designs made for pixel perfect projects, as well as various fills, borders, effects, and blend modes, along with shared styles.
Features of Gravit designer
gravity designer allows import of sketches, design models, transformations and more, and it even allows you to export PDF files, IVS files and high quality images using slices and various features.
Also has support for layers, pages and smart objects. Your documents can have multiple pages, and you can view several at the same time.
Pages can inherit characteristics from a master page, which is useful when working on a project with many pages that requires a consistent format.
When selecting an object, a text box, a circle, or any drawn element, Gravit designer allows you to use transformation tools to adjust its position, resize it, and even group it with other elements.
Objects can be selected by right-clicking anywhere in the drawing area.
A distinctive feature of gravit is the toolbar at the bottom that changes depending on the selected tool (similar to the "Tool Options" dialog box in Gimp).
This is the contextual approach promoted by the Gravit developers. It is intended to reduce clutter and hide unnecessary options from the screen, as you cannot work with more than one tool at a time anyway.
The number of options visible here depends on the tool you are using. Most of them are represented by small icons.
Some buttons, such as the "Color Picker," open their own somewhat small but feature-rich windows.
For now, Gravit can save your projects in its own format (.gravit) or export them to PNG and JPG. PDF, support for other popular vector graphics formats is planned in future releases.
Gravit is stable, even in the browser, but the "Export" option can still sometimes crash the application when exporting from large formats.
How to install Gravit designer on Linux?
Si you want to install this vector design application on your system, we can do it in two ways besides being able to use it from the web browser.
The first of them is by downloading the application in AppImage format, which is compatible with most current Linux distributions.
Currently the application is in its version 3.4.0 and we can download the latter stable version from this link.
Or if you prefer they can open a terminal and run the following command:
wget https://designer.gravit.io/_downloads/linux/GravitDesigner.zip?v=3.4.0
Now we can proceed to unzip the newly downloaded package with:
unzip GravitDesigner.zip
We enter the directory created after having unzipped:
cd GravitDesigner
We give execution permissions:
sudo chmod a+x GravitDesigner.AppImage
Y we execute with:
./GravitDesigner.AppImage
With this we can use the application, do not forget that the file should not be deleted, since every time you need to use the application you can do so by double clicking on it.
The other installation method is with the help of a Snap package, so you must have the support for this technology in your system.
You must open a terminal and execute the following command in it:
sudo snap install gravit-designer
And ready with it, you already have the application installed.
How to uninstall Gravit from Linux?
If you want to remove this application from your system, you must execute one of the following commands.
In case you have installed from Snap:
sudo snap remove gravit-designer
If you installed from AppImage:
sudo rm -rf /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-gravit-designer.desktop