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Subject: Re: CAD for Amiga, actually much simpler..
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:40:46 GMT
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In article <4137@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) writes:
> To the Net community..
> 
> 	Lots of discussion has been made about advanced CAD programs for the
> Amiga.. I was wondering if there is a program that is simply capable of
> line drawings and Ami font support (i.e. for technical diagrams with
> nice text) similar to Mac's MacDraw series of programs. 
> 
> 	CAD programs are close, but I haven't seen one yet that uses fonts
> other than those suitable for 'plotting' (i.e. "line fonts"). Plus, none
> that I've seen have the gridding (i.e. align to each other, to grid,
> etc.) capabilities MacDraw has, either.
> 
> 				Any suggestions greatly appreciated,
> 
> 						\marc
> 
> 
> 
> 'I do not fear computers.. I fear the lack of them'  -- I. Asimov
> 									RNM

Hello,
     I will have a go at this one.
    
     I used to HAVE to use MacDr*w here to prepare the displays for 
conferences, teaching, etc. But now I use PageStream, I have found that
 it will do everthing that MacDr*w will do and then some. It will 
align objects vertically, horizontally, using the centre or either edge, it 
has grid snap, fonts may be resized on the fly to any point size, font
attributes may be varied within a block of text, the text can be imported 
from most of the popular word processors without loosing the formatting. 
Objects can be positioned by co-ordinates, on and on........ It also will 
clone small objects, something that always gave MacDr*w indigestion, and
 it has user vaiable zoom. The only feature that it lacked was the ability to
print large areas onto A4 pages which could them be assembled as a mosaic (?)
 but this is fixed in v2.
      Anyway, enough rambling, to put a point on this thing, they bought a
IIcx, here for, amoung other things, me to do their displays, but I still 
prefer to do them on my Amiga at home.

                                Have fun,

                                             Russell