Slammer 20 Questions - Part 1

  1. What is Slammer?

    Slammer is a layout tool. You can make blueprints by sectioning your canvas using grid systems, fibonacci series, golden sections or harmonious sections. Slammer can be used as an overlay on top of any application while you are tweaking your design. Slammer also has rulers, a magnifier and a color picker to help you further.

  2. Why did you develop Slammer?

    Once upon a time, there was a blacksmith. He loved sculptures and wanted to make them. He had too many responsibilities to drop everything and go learn sculpting. So he decided to make a chisel as way of learning sculptures while being productive.

  3. Wasn’t this a free program?

    Yes. I added a whole bunch of features to it, working almost every conscious hour of the past few months with the intention of selling it. Slammer 0.9 Beta can be used without any limitations for 30 hours. After 30 hours you will not be able to save, import or export your layouts. You won’t be able to use the Clickthrough mode either. I’m fairly certain that you’d decide to buy it long before the 30 hours are over.

  4. All design tools have grids and guides built in, don’t they?

    Yes they do. They are very basic. They draw lines at specific intervals. Their scope is limited to object placement and alignment. They are not tools for exploratory layout.

  5. Can’t I just create an image file and use it? Lots of free grid generators let me download a grid.png file.

While an image file can support complex layouts, they are not interactive. Most grid generators provide just one form of the distribution supported by Slammer, the uniform distribution. The nice thing about Slammer is you can grab the complex layout you created as a composite image.



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