Oak Draw for Windows

Oak Draw for Windows is an object oriented drawing package for Windows 3.1 and above, designed to be used by children in schools but also to be powerful enough for professional users.

Object drawing packages can produce much clearer diagrams than pixel based painting packages. Their output is always to the best resolution of the output device and not limited to a fixed number of pixels.

Within Oak Draw, the drawing area is specified in paper sizes up to AO and working units can be in inches or millimetres. The drawing is made up from a series of objects which are either paths (lines and curves), text or embedded bitmaps, Path objects can have their own line and fill colour specified separately. The line thickness is defined from a thin line one pixel wide to however many units are required. The start and end of lines can be square, rounded or triangular for arrows. Line joins can be mitred, round or bevelled. A disc full of example dip-art is included with the package.

Oak Draw is file compatible with !Draw on the Acorn Archimedes, providing a similar set of tools including lines, curves, text, circles and rectangles. Archimedes drawfiles can be loaded directly into Oak Draw, even if they include sprites.

Object oriented drawing package

Objects include lines, curves, text and bitmaps

drawing tools include open and closed paths (lines and curves) , circles, rectangles, text

curves are Bezier curves with editable control points

lines can be of any thickness

line start and end points can be butt, round or triangular

line joins can be rounded, mitred or bevelled

objects can be of any colour available on your system

powerful selection model allows groups of object to be built up and manipulated as single entries

units can be inches or millimetres paper sizes up to AO supported in portrait or landscape orientation

zoom facility to 1000%

clipboard and OLE support

compatible with Archimedes drawfiles including those containing sprites

includes a clip-art disc containing many public domain drawfiles