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From: jimb@mas1.UUCP (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is there a better alternative than MS-Windows Paint program???
Message-ID: <1866@mas1.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 21:42:11 GMT
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In article <355@greek.UUCP> mark@greek.UUCP (Mark Jeghers) writes:

>Is there a "paint" type of program which meets the following criteria (more
>or less)?

>- Runs under MS-Windows
>- Has better resolution (like 300 dpi)
>- Object Oriented treatment of graphic items
>  (like MacPaint, MS-Paint just treats it all as raster bitmap)
>- Is preferably PD or Shareware

I have a related question.  I have not found a drawing package that produces
output compatable with WordPerfect 5.0 that produces reasonable quality
printed graphics.  I use GEM Draw heavily but it is not supported.  Many
of the "paint" (bitmapped) graphics packages are more difficult to use
than GEM but even they do not produce good quality drawings when printed
inside a WP document.  Or should I expect not to find a package that is
compatible?  Is this a problem with the graphics package or with WordPerfect?

I'd appreciate any comments anyone has on their success or lack of success.

Thanx...

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