Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: CricketDraw
Message-ID: <5578@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 03:39:28 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.012702.10155@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Motorola Technical Systems Division, Toronto Design Centre
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In article <1990Oct20.012702.10155@midway.uchicago.edu> chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) writes:
>Whatever happened to CricketDraw?  Is it still available, and if so,
>from whom?  I like CricketDraw better than MacDraw II, but the version I
>have has alot of annoying bugs.  MacConnection and other software houses
>don't seem to sell CricketDraw any more.

The last upgrade I received from Cricket was 1.1, I think. CricketDraw
gradually became too cumbersome, esp. compared to more recent drawing
packages, and I dumped it when I upgraded to NFNTs and Cricket tech.
support informed they had no plans to support an "undocumented format".
I read somewhere that it was to be superceded by a completely new
program, but I never received any notice of such. Cricket was bought
out (by Computer Associates?). In any case, I found FreeHand to be
more than equivalent, not to mention faster, friendlier and more reliable.
The new Adobe Illustrator (version 3) also looks good (from the reviews;
I haven't received my upgrade yet). (I tried, but abandoned, Canvas along
the way. I figure if its important to my work, I'll spend the money once
and be done with it. Hence, a small number of high-end packages :-)
.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank