andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad) (03/15/91)
I would like to ask the people who used Micrografix DrawPlus
to mail to me or post in here some technical information on:
- the text editing capabilities and font support (symbols ?)
of the tool,
- WYSIWYG,
- import/export formats,
- use with MS WordForWindows,
+ general impressions.
I obtained two-sheet marketing letter from Micrographics and
they promised to call me with more information, but I would like
to hear as many opinions as possible before I buy it.
For those who are interested:
Micrografix phone #: 1-800-733-3729 ext. 3250 USA
3710 Canada
The list price: US$250.00.
Educational discount: US$114.50 (a letter from the university
required + the statement that
it will be used for teaching
only, and not research 8-< )
My price: Carleton University Bookstore: Can$190.00 (+15% taxes)
(it is in Ottawa, Canada) (it is not an educational
discount)
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========================================================================ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) (03/16/91)
andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes >I would like to ask the people who used Micrografix DrawPlus >to mail to me or post in here some technical information on: > - the text editing capabilities and font support (symbols ?) of the tool, > - WYSIWYG, > - import/export formats, > - use with MS WordForWindows, >+ general impressions. --- We're using MG Draw on several '386 machines here. Generally, people who've never used any object-oriented drawing package think better of it than people who've used (say) MacDraw. Even on a 33MHz machine, MG is very much slower than MacDraw - maybe by a factor of 10. Screen redraws are painful. When printing from within MG, things usually come out WYSIWYG, but when pasting into WFW, things sometimes get lost; arrowheads, or specific lines, for example. We haven't needed to export/import to other DOS/WINDOWS applications, but we do need to go to/from MacDraw. We recently bought MG's export package, (an additional $160), and are just now trying it out; results have been disappointing. Text gets misaligned or misplaced, and other "artifacts" mean that you need to minutely inspect the target document for errors. IMHO, in overall speed, accuracy, and transportability to other apps, MG Draw is quite a distance behind similarly functional Mac packages. Regards, Isaac isw@cup.portal.com