tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) (05/20/88)
Well, I've had a chance to test most of the commercially available drawing software programs for the Mac, to see if any are better for drawing electronic schematics than MacDraw. Basically, NO. MacDraw far out runs the other drawing program I test in terms of speed of redrawing a drawing. With schematics, and the like, there are usually thousands of objects to draw. MacDraw is somewhat slow at redrawing them, but all of the other drawing programs are slower. Here's my summary: Aldus FreeHand Great drawing program, still slower Canvas VERY VERY VERY Slow !!! Cricket Draw Decent drawing program, but somewhat slower on the redraw SuperPaint It was slower, and not really suited to drawing schematic diagrams If MacDraw beats all of these in speed, and MacDraw II it supposed to be many, many times faster the MacDraw, it looks like MacDraw II could be an awesome program! MacDraw, which has been around from the beginning, still outruns the latest and greatest drawing programs in speed !! :------------------------------------------------------------: : Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : : Mentor Graphics Delphi: CARSTENSEN : : GEnie: CARSTENSEN : : : : . . . Ah, what I wouldn't give to be spat at in the : : face. I used to lay awake at night dreaming of : : being spat at in the face. : : - Monty Python (Life of Brian) : :------------------------------------------------------------:
eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding) (05/27/88)
In a recent article tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) wrote: >MacDraw far out runs the other drawing program I test in >terms of speed of redrawing a drawing. With schematics, >and the like, there are usually thousands of objects to >draw. MacDraw is somewhat slow at redrawing them, but >all of the other drawing programs are slower. Here's my >: Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : You did not mention that you had tried MacDraft. I have found that MacDraft is significantly faster than MacDraw for redrawing lots of objects. I have tried downloading some graphics from our VAX via VersaTerm Pro which creates MacDraw documents, and several which wer just too painful to work with in MacDraw were tolerable in MacDraft. More than a few thousand lines is bad under either program, even on a Mac II, so I end up sending the PostScript directly to the LaserWriter from the Vax. So much for WSIWYG :-(. ++Eric