Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!opal!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: A MACdraw-like drawing package for Windows. Keywords: drawing, windows Message-ID: <4247@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 8 Mar 91 22:56:21 GMT References: <1991Mar5.155145.29000@ottsun1.uucp> <2087@borg.cs.unc.edu> <1991Mar8.160216.19111@bigsur.uucp> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 31 andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes: >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? We use Designer here, and are satisfied with it, mostly. Of course, I have a wishlist (could be faster, less buggy, should have a symbolic exchange format and/or programmability,...), but it has most of the the features we need: arrows (-:, layers, continuous zoom, ability to group symbols hierachicaly, the usual tools of a drawing program, is able to make use of the available Windows/printer fonts, import/export for metafiles and for bitmaps, semi-automatical and automatical autotrace, online help, ... It suffers a bit from featurism - the built-in outline fonts for example are nearly unusable, even on my 486; they probably have been added as a reaction to Corel Draw - but I hope that Micrografx will change their mind and will improve and correct the available features instead of adding new ones. I don't have access to Corel Draw. But from what I read and from a video tape advertising it, I got the impression that it is essentially a program to make nice pictures. Designers strength is the creation of pictures for technical documentation. Wolfgang Strobl #include