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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are there any decent drawing programs?!?!
Message-ID: <5160042@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 15:29:54 GMT
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joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
>
>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...

It's probably not quite what you want, but XCad will do this.  It outputs
to plotters and to raster (dot-matrix) printers at the resolution available
in the plotter/printer.  It is not what I would call a drawing program,
however: it is a drafting program.  I've seen it discounted to $299 in
AmigaWorld.  The review of it in AmigaWorld was extremely inaccurate, IMHO.
BTW, it also lets you specify a scale factor on printing/plotting, so if
you decide you want to scale your whole drawing (or the piece you output)
so that your 1/8" circle prints/plots as 17/64", you can do that.  I
would suggest you check exactly how it supports something like a paintjet,
however; I use it with plotters and have only experimented with dot-matrix
output once or twice.