A Good Drawing Program?
Sam Weir
I'm a scientist who has been using a program called "Superpaint" to
create schematic diagrams for use in presentations, publications, etc.
However, Superpaint is an old program and is no longer being supported,
so I need to find a replacement. Does anyone know of a good
Drawing/Painting program for making things like simple schematic
diagrams? I like Superpaint because you can combine Paint Layers (useful
for drawing pictures) with Draw Layers (useful for making text appear
crisp). Are there any similar programs out there that are able to
combine both Drawing and Painting layers?
-Sam
David Hamilton
This depends on your cost tolerance ;-)
At the high end of the scale there is Canvas 7, which is supposed to be
quite good at combining draw and paint layers. Ut costs several hundred
dollars, not sure how much you want to spend.
On the lower end of the scale, Appleworks, which runs about $99, is also
able to combine draw and paint layers.
It's too bad about superpaint, I used it for a long while myself..for what
it's worth Appleworks now fills that gap for me.
Best of luck; I'm sure there are other solutions that folks will chime in with.
Andy Dannelley
...snip
> Drawing/Painting program for making things like simple schematic
> diagrams? I like Superpaint because you can combine Paint Layers (useful
> for drawing pictures) with Draw Layers (useful for making text appear
> crisp). Are there any similar programs out there that are able to
> combine both Drawing and Painting layers?
> -Sam
I think CorelDraw 8 may do what you want to do. CD8 will do drawing,
painting and more. (even spellcheck which is a godsend for me).
It's not cheap, but I find it to be a good program.
IHTH
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Bob Dalgleish
>Hi-
> I'm a scientist who has been using a program called "Superpaint" to
>create schematic diagrams for use in presentations, publications, etc.
>However, Superpaint is an old program and is no longer being supported,
>so I need to find a replacement. Does anyone know of a good
>Drawing/Painting program for making things like simple schematic
>diagrams? I like Superpaint because you can combine Paint Layers (useful
>for drawing pictures) with Draw Layers (useful for making text appear
>crisp). Are there any similar programs out there that are able to
>combine both Drawing and Painting layers?
>-Sam
>
Corel Draw 8 LE (Limited Edition) has just been released, for free, to
the Macintosh public. The download is quite difficult to get, but it is
available on CD-ROM for $19.95.
Corel Draw does what you are asking; Corel Photo Paint also does a bunch
of Photoshop stuff.
Both run acceptably on my PowerMac 7100/66.
John D. McKinley
>Hi-
> I'm a scientist who has been using a program called "Superpaint" to
>create schematic diagrams for use in presentations, publications, etc.
>However, Superpaint is an old program and is no longer being supported,
>so I need to find a replacement. Does anyone know of a good
>Drawing/Painting program for making things like simple schematic
>diagrams? I like Superpaint because you can combine Paint Layers (useful
>for drawing pictures) with Draw Layers (useful for making text appear
>crisp). Are there any similar programs out there that are able to
>combine both Drawing and Painting layers?
>-Sam
I looked at several programs in a similar quest (moving from Superpaint,
which I used to edit scans as well as prepare schematic diagrams), and
settled on Canvas. There's a trial version at <http://www.deneba.com>.
--
John D. McKinley Cardiff University
Daniel C. Flatin
>Hi-
> I'm a scientist who has been using a program called "Superpaint" to
>create schematic diagrams for use in presentations, publications, etc.
>However, Superpaint is an old program and is no longer being supported,
>so I need to find a replacement. Does anyone know of a good
>Drawing/Painting program for making things like simple schematic
>diagrams? I like Superpaint because you can combine Paint Layers (useful
>for drawing pictures) with Draw Layers (useful for making text appear
>crisp). Are there any similar programs out there that are able to
>combine both Drawing and Painting layers?
>-Sam
>
I use Canvas for most things. It is hard to beat as an all around
graphics tool. In addition to basic utility for technical
illustrations, it can import and export an impressive range of file
formats.