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From: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Subject: Re: A MACdraw-like drawing package for Windows.
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.160216.19111@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: drawing, windows
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Reply-To: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar5.155145.29000@ottsun1.uucp> <2087@borg.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 16:02:16 GMT

|> |> for Windows 3.0.

|> |> = Clive Pickles - Systems Administrator MPR Teltech Ltd. (Ottawa) =

|> I am interested in this, too.  Please post your replies or mail them
|> to me as well.

|> Michael E. Winslett          University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


XVTDraw is something which I use for most of my drawings (it occassionally
crashes, but since I installed the total 8MB on my 386/25 it
has not happened).

Interestingly, I had a chance to play around with CorelDraw v.1.21.
I really do not understand why some people are amazed with that tool.
You cannot even draw a line with arrows! To see what are the results of
the drawing, one has to open another window (and of course the things get
smaller, which makes it very difficult to draw at all). It is true that
there are some features which are not in XVTDraw, but I would not
switch from XVDraw to CorelDraw ver.1.21. If the version 2.00 (much
talked about on this newsgroup) does not change things radically, I cannot
understand what is the catch?

It is a real pity that the guys who implemented XVTDraw do not invest
a little bit of their time and effort to make the program comercially
available. Maybe they could give away the source code - I am sure that
soon somebody would "put a dot over i". What the program lacks the most
is importing and exporting capabilities and at least one font more,
namely symbol.

Neither CorelDraw (v.1.21) nor XVTDraw can compare with MacDraw.
Although PowerPoint is destined for something else, it is not bad
in drawings. I cannot say anything about Micrographx Designer.

What do other think?

PS

If there is something like MacDraw (say WinDraw) I would be glad to
hear about it (and pay for it, unless it is priced in the same way
as CorelDraw is).

I think that XVTDraw could sell for at least $50 as a shareware without
major improvements. If some suggestions were implemented, its price could
be in the $100 range and it still would be a success.

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