Collaboration
Helping you work as a team.
when you’re working as part of a team, perhaps in business or as part of a club, being able to collaborate with others will sometimes be necessary. There are several aspects to this, some of which we’ve given consideration to already. Even if your collaboration involves nothing more sophisticated than emailing files back and forth, or sharing them via an online file sharing service, an extensive set of supported vector-based file formats for import and export is useful. This might permit you to collaborate with people who are using different software.
All the packages have at least one vector-based format for import and export, with the exception of Google Drawings.
However, this doesn’t mean that Google is inappropriate for collaboration, as we’re about to see.
Another way of ensuring collaboration is to insist that all members of the team use the same software. If your co-workers use a variety of operating systems, however, this could be difficult. Inkscape and Libreoffice Draw run under Windows and macos as well as Linux, Vectr runs under Windows and Chromeos, and Gravit runs under all three. This question doesn’t apply to the Google offering since it’s accessed online.
Going beyond this, some software has specific facilities to enable collaboration. As an online utility, Google Drawings, for example, permits several users to work simultaneously on the same drawing. Vectr says it is working on a similar facility but, in the meantime, and bearing in mind that Vectr always saves your work online even if you’re using the offline version, you can share your work with other users. Despite the existence of Gravit
Designer’s online stablemate Gravit Cloud, Gravit is one step further behind in offering collaboration, saying only that it’s under consideration. The online Gravit Cloud does streamline the process slightly since a team could share the same account. Needless to say, in such a scenario, you’d have to ensure that multiple people don’t try to edit a project at the same time.