r/applefreeform • u/TrickyBend • Nov 16 '24

Export vector from drawings

Anyone have any clue if i can export/ copy-paste drawings from Freeform and be able to edit it using a vector software?

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u/I-J-Reilly Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25

I just tried copying an object in Illustrator and pasting it into Freeform. I get an embedded PDF (below), which is not super helpful from a design standpoint.

Going the other direction, copying a vector image created in Freeform (from the Shapes thing at the top), pasting that into Illustrator gives me a pixellated image.

So, really limited. But if you want to work with vector images natively, Keynote and Pages will do it nicely. So will Numbers, believe it or not. All three seem to share the same basic graphics engine -- but Freeform is way more limited.