fleishman-glenn@cs.yale.edu (Glenn Fleishman) (04/13/88)
>My money is currently on Freehand. It looks nice. Adobe Illustrator tends to >be aimed more at formal drawings, I'm more interested in freehand/iterative >work than doing the drafts on paper and translating them to the computer >when I know what I want. > >Freehand seems to have the best of both Illustrator and Cricket Draw, while >avoiding some of the more unpleasant bugs that CD has (it's pictures aren't >always transportable to other programs, for instance) > >One thing to keep an eye on is SuperPaint II. It looks to be a competitor >with the serious draw programs, although it's still a little while off. >Especially for owners of SuperPaint, they may want to wait for it because >the upgrade price is going to be very reasonable (SP II is targeted at about >$199 retail, last i heard). This raises important questions. For starters, I think it's absolutely right to say that Illustrator is for formal drawings. Even from looking simply at their ads -- pages of technical illustrations of motor parts -- its emphasis is clear. In FreeHand it's easier to do sillier things -- i.e. illustrative line drawings with screening -- but harder to control. The features are more extensive and controllable, but FreeHand can currently handle very little as far as page size. I'd be interested in finding out more about SuperPaint II. It will supposedly have PostScript, 2500 dpi, 1200 dpi, and 300 dpi modes and abilities. That would be amazing as far as transportability and adaptation to machinery. Glenn I. Fleishman, graphic designer & Mac apologist FLEGLEI@YALEVM.BITNET or to above address "What? Why did you say that? What do you know about my IMAGE DUPLICATOR?" ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help