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From: spinrad@vega.ucsb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Good, drawing program wanted
Keywords: W4W, tiff, draw
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Date: 21 Jun 91 18:39:11 GMT
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Help!  I'm sick of paintbrush's low resolution and the high cost of Corel Draw!

I'm looking for a decent, yet inexpensive (much less than $300) drawing program 
which is compatible with word for windows.  By decent I mean it needs to be
better than the paintbrush which comes with windows.  I need to be able to 
combine text and graphics together without having the text bit mapped to my
screen's resolution, as paintbrush does.  I also would like the graphics to be
stored as individual objects so they can be more easily modified at a later
time.  Paintbrush just stores everything in one large bitmap.  

I also need to be able to include these graphics in word for windows documents.
So I'll need some method of storing the graphics in a TIFF format (If I just
used the clipboard to transfer the graphics, then I'm back to having text 
bitmapped to my screen's resolution). 

I don't have a big need for colors, but a couple shades a grey might be nice.
I don't need the drawing tool to be a windows ap, but it should run in a
windows dos box.  

Ideally I would like something similar to XVT-draw so long that I can keep
a high resolution when I go to print out a W4W doc.

If you know of a drawing tool which meets these requirements, then I really 
would like to hear about it.  Or if you know of another way of getting high
resolution pictures into a W4W document, that would also be very helpful.

			Many thanks in advance,

				Sandy
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			    Sandy Spinrad
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