Features

Every tool.
One program.

From the first line to the printed sheet: everything TANGENTA can do, at a glance.

Draw

Rectangle, ellipse, pie and arc
Polygon, star and complex star
Spiral and graph paper
Freehand, 2-point line, Bézier, pen and B-spline
3-point rectangle, ellipse and curve
Artistic media and calligraphy
Perfect shapes: basic, arrow, flowchart, banner and star shapes
Tables with merged cells
Dimensions and angular dimensions
Connectors that follow their objects

Shape

Shape tool with every node type
Knife, eraser and crop
Weld, intersect, trim
Front minus back, back minus front
Combine and break apart
Convert outline to object
Join curves
Shaping docker with preview

Fill and outline

Uniform fill with colour picker
Linear, radial and conical gradients
Pattern and texture fills
Mesh fill
Interactive fill right on the object
Outline pen with line styles and arrowheads
Eyedropper and copy attributes

Effects

Blend along a path
Contour inside and outside
Extrude
Envelope with presets
Perspective
Drop shadow and transparency
Lens with fish eye and other types
Bevel and blur
SuperClip: place content inside a frame

Text

Artistic and paragraph text
Linked text frames with overflow
Text on path
Bullets and drop caps
Tabs and paragraph formatting
Hyphenation
Spell checking and QuickCorrect
Font substitution on PDF import

Images

Import up to camera RAW (NEF, CR2, CR3, ARW, DNG …)
Tone curve, brightness, contrast, colour balance
Hue, saturation and filters
Crop and mask
SuperTrace: turn bitmaps into vectors
Image search across eight libraries

Document

Multiple pages with a master page
Layers and Object Manager
Symbols and clones
Guidelines, dynamic guides, grid
Snapping to nodes, centres, edges and the page
Unlimited undo
Its own open file format (.vek)

Print

Print preview
Imposition: booklet, signature, n-up, step-and-repeat
Crop and fold marks, bleed
Labels
PDF with presets and preflight

Automate

JavaScript scripts with an editor
Its own scripting API (tg)
AI assistant with 18 tools
Image search and web search for the AI

01 / Workspace

Dockers
where you need them.

Object Manager, Object Properties, Shaping, Transformations, Symbols, Lens, Envelope, Scripts and AI dock on the right, as tabs or stacked. The property bar at the top always shows the fields for the selected object.

Object Manager with pages, layers and master page
Property bar for every tool and object type
Status bar with the fill and outline of the selection
Colour palette on the right edge

TANGENTA with Object Manager and Object Properties, the poster title selected

02 / Settings

Every setting
where you expect it.

The Options dialog (Ctrl+J) arranges Workspace, Document and Global in a tree, the way you are used to: snapping, guidelines, tools, saving, text, spelling, image search, AI and much more.

Options dialog showing the snapping page

03 / File formats

In and out.

Import

SVGPDFEPSPSDXFPNGJPEGTIFFWebPBMPGIFNEFCR2CR3ARWDNG

Export

PDFSVGEPSDXFPNGJPEGTIFFWebPPSDHTML

PDF, SVG and EPS are imported as editable curves and text. For EPS and PS, TANGENTA uses Ghostscript.

04 / Shortcuts

The shortcuts you know.

A selection. Every shortcut is shown next to its command in the menus.

Shortcut	Command
`F5`	Freehand
`F6`	Rectangle
`F7`	Ellipse
`F8`	Text
`F10`	Shape
`Y`	Polygon
`A`	Spiral
`I`	Artistic media
`X`	Eraser
`G`	Interactive fill
`M`	Mesh fill
`F11`	Gradient
`F12`	Outline pen
`Ctrl`+`G` / `Ctrl`+`U`	Group / ungroup
`Ctrl`+`L`	Combine
`Ctrl`+`Q`	Convert to curves
`Ctrl`+`D`	Duplicate
`L` `R` `T` `B` `E` `C` `P`	Align: left, right, top, bottom, centre, page centre
`Ctrl`+`PgUp` / `Ctrl`+`PgDn`	Forward one / back one
`Ctrl`+`I` / `Ctrl`+`E`	Import / export
`Alt`+`Enter`	Object properties
`F9`	Full-screen preview
`Ctrl`+`J`	Options
`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`K`	AI assistant

Start drawing.

Free of charge, for Windows and Linux, with AI.

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Every tool.One program.