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- Subject: Best Structured Drawing Prog.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.142338.2718@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 04:23:38 GMT
- Organization: University of New South Wales
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- I just thought I'd give my opinion on the best structured drawing program. From
- my limited experience I'd say ProVector. The quality of output is *outstanding*
- to say the least. I needed something that outputted EPS to use with PasTeX and
- this was the best by far. ProDraw is apparently very good but I found it hard
- to use. With ProVector you can pretty much go for it first time you load it, it
- has great on-line help. It also outputs in DR2D which is the iff format for
- structured drawing and as such can be imported straight into pagestream 2.0 or
- higher. It can also use any pagestream fonts (via a program included with
- ProVector that converts pagestream fonts to ProVector fonts).
-
- I must also say the ProVector has *excellent* arexx support. There is nothing
- you can't do via an arexx script. I have managed to incorporate plotting of
- statistics into ProVector (bar graphs, pie charts ..etc) via simple arexx
- scripts. The documentation provided is excellent, it is comprehensive and very
- well set out.
-
- What does everybody else think?
-
- Cheers
- -Trevor
-