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From: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Are there any decent drawing programs?!?!
Message-ID: <685@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 04:23:31 GMT
Reply-To: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Well, I just got my new deskjet printer, it's glorious, but let me tell you
I am pretty peaved at amiga software developers.

I own Dpaint III, Professional Draw, and Draw Plus.
Draw Plus SUCKS and I don't even want to talk about it...
Professional draw shows alot of promise, but it is s-l-o-w.  I have programs
similar to it that run faster on my AT, even at 8MHz, what's the problem?  I 
suspect very poor use of the blitter is at the core of it.

Dpaint III is very nice for graphics, I have no right to complain about its'
printer output because that is not it's main function.

So-can anyone recommend to me a *structured* drawing program that will be 
fast and allow me to be acurate on paper?  I need to be able to do things
like make a 1/8" circle and have it be exactly 1/8" on paper.  Pro Draw does
this very well but as I said it's slow...

Another complaint.  I've been using Page Stream for a month now and it is  
riddled with bugs, even the 1.6 update did not help.  It has the worst printer
driver I have EVER seen, it is slow, eats memory, and doesn't do a decent
job.  Ventura on a dotmatrix looks better than it did on my deskjet, and venturaon the deskjet is heaven...

Also, Professional Page does not really support non post-script printers and
that is very dissapointing.  Page Setter does it better....ack.


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