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From: boyer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Draw Program
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Date: 21 Feb 89 14:14:00 GMT
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>/* Written  9:33 am  Feb 19, 1989 by guarna@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu in iuvax:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
>/* ---------- "Draw Program" ---------- */
>
>Does anyone know of a "Draw" program for the IBM PC similar to MacDraw?
>I am interested in a tool that draws texts, circles, arrows, etc., *but*
>is aware of the objects that you draw so that you can enlarge/shrink them
>or move or delete them on an object basis, not on a pixel block basis.
>All of the "paint" programs I have seen simply dump the object into the paint
>buffer and forget about them (with the exception of 1 undo step).  Any
>time you want to move something, you must move a solid area of pixels.
>If you want to delete something, you have to rub it out pixel by pixel
>by repainting in background color.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>	Vince Guarna
>	University of Illinois
>	(217) 244-0071
>/* End of text from iuvax:comp.sys.ibm.pc */

GEM Draw from Digital Research is very similar to the MAC Draw program.  I
have used both and prefer GEM Draw to Mac Draw.  The only DRAWback :-) to 
the GEM package is that it does not support encapsulated postscript for
importing files to Word Processing or DTP programs.  Other than that it is a
very solid program (and maybe if enough people complain they will support EPS).

Dave Boyer