nelson@sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) (03/30/91)
For several years I've used MacDraw on the MAC to produce presentation
slides, any time I need a mixture of text and simple graphics (e.g. network
diagrams in my case, mostly). Now I've got a high-end 386 PC with WIN3.0
and super-duper VGA, and I want Mac-Draw on it.
You can help by telling me (via followup posting or reply email) about the
program that you use that comes closest to Mac Draw.
Let me add a few words to anticipate and help focus some of the reponses:
1. I'm not interested in any "paint" programs, only draw programs. The
distinction is that with a paint program, once an image piece (e.g a line,
or some text) is put down onto the "canvas" it loses all its identity, and
just becomes more pixels on the canvas. It's generally impossible with
paint programs to go back and move a line or change the font of some text
once you've put it down, and then painted somthing else. Your only hope is
to "erase" the line or text, restore whatever was underneath it manually
(if you can) and then redraw the line. Yeesh :-P.
Draw programs, on the other hand, keep the identity of every object (every
line, box, circle, or piece of text) that you put down, forever. If you
want to go back and move a line, or change the font or point-size of some
text that you put down long ago, it's no problem with MacDraw, but can't be
done with any paint program I know of.
Features like horizontal and vertical rulers, and snap-to-grid with
adjustable grid sizes, and zooming in and out, are an aboslute MUST.
2. I'm not interested in CAD programs.
3. The *only* "draw" program I know of (for WIN 3.0) is Corel-draw, and I
suspect most of the replies I'll get will point to that, because it may be
the only game in town. If you're going to recommend Corel-draw to me,
please discuss its similarities and differences with MacDraw expecially with
respect to the above-mentioned "must" features.
Also, I have a PostScript printer, and ATM, and that's all the fonts I need
at the moment. If the makers of CorelDraw would sell a version with none
of their extra fonts at half the price, I might be more interested in it.
I really don't wanna spend over $300 for this.
Thanks in advance for your kind replies.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nelson Bolyard nelson@sgi.COM {decwrl,sun}!sgi!whizzer!nelson
Disclaimer: Views expressed herein do not represent the views of my employer.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------