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- From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
- Subject: Re: Structured Drawing Recommendations?
- In-Reply-To: aa794@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 22 Jan 1993 15:22:19 GMT
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- Organization: State University of New York at Albany
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:07:05
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- I'm looking for a good structured 2D drawing package. On MS-DOS machines
- I prefer packages like CorelDRAW! and Micrografix Designer. What are some
- of the packages for an Amiga 2500?
- I'd want things like bezier curves, moveable guidelines that can be
- turned off and on, and an intuitive user interface.
- Thanks for the help.
-
- Well, as I understand, you have 4 options here (since there are only 4
- object oriented drawing programs on the Amiga discounting CAD programs
- which can do double duty).
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- Professional Draw (v3.0) - Doesn't yet work with A4000 or 3.0, but a fairly
- solid program. I like the GUI, it's fairly easy to learn, though
- if you are already familiar with Adobe Illustrator, it's quite
- different. Also it's files are proprietary!
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- ProVector - Looks like, feels like, my god it is xfig! I've been working
- for the computing services here and damn this program looks like
- the publically (available on unixes running X) available xfig!
- Did these people develop this themselves or what? Well I only
- played with it once and I wasn't all that impressed, GUI is quite
- different from other drawing programs, makes learning curve greater.
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- Expert Draw - Novices need apply only. The only bonus to this program is
- that it saves and loads Professional Draws proprietary format...
- Not powerful enough for someone already familiar with Adobe Illu.
- or CoralDraw...
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- Art Expressions - I currently own this one, so my opinion is bias. All
- in all the one with the most potential, but unfortunately, it has
- many bugs to be ironed out, including the fact that it has no ability
- to do "manual tracing", big mistake soft-logik, most of my business
- is based on this. You are relegated to use BME's autotrace (not
- quite as good as Adobe Slip Stream or Coral's autotrace), so most
- of my work is still done on IBM's running Windows...
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- Teddy
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