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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are there any decent drawing programs?!?!
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Date: 6 Jun 89 18:22:44 GMT
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In article <685@lakesys.UUCP> joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
>Draw Plus SUCKS and I don't even want to talk about it...
Well, whadda ya know ... I have Draw 2000, and it sucks too!
They LIE about supporting printers, to say the least ...
I sent them a note which was never answered.
>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.
This sort of experience does get discouraging. My HP friend had nice
Paintjet output over two years ago from his scummy AT for his Paintjet.
I have had a paintjet for a year now. I use it for AmigaTex ONLY (hint:
black and white).
>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...
Well, i don't know what to tell you. 
Here is the best compromise I have found (but i won't buy it
cause it is not quite good enough):
ComicSetter
Reasonable speed, will sort of do color, text is ok, and it does run 
at 180 dpi.  Makes DPaint* output look pretty sick.
My brother brought it down for a test drive and for the first time
i could draw things on the amiga and have them print on the paintjet
in color and have it look like something. What a shock.
   As it is I am *almost* ready to toss the Amiga and get a 
386 machine plus software that can drive printers, and do other
things. Frustration rears its ugly head ... the only thing that keeps
me in the fold is AmigaTeX (oh, and i forgot ... Dnet).
But it bugs me to go see SmallTalk V on my friend's XT ...
>Also, Professional Page does not really support non post-script printers and
>that is very dissapointing.  Page Setter does it better....ack.
I don't know, the machine has been out for almost 4 years and we still can't 
draw and print. I would think C= would have made that something of a 
priority. Apparently not.  They ain't much time left ...
ron