Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.graphics
Subject	Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10
Date	2021-09-28 14:56 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2021-09-28, Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2021 18:40:01 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2021-09-21, Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to draw a square.
>>>
>>> I want to draw a circle, crossing the sqare.
>>>
>>> I want to draw some lines, cutting the circle.
>>>
>>> I want to cut the circle into pieces where I have crossings. I want to
>>> move or delete those pieces.
>>>
>>> I want to fill areas with colors or patterns.
>>>
>>> I want to adjust line width and colors
>>>
>>> I want to save this as jpg, gif, png or pdf
>>>
>>> I want to paste images from png files.
>>
>> Again, any illustration app can do all of this. It's just a matter of
>> learning how to use the app in question.
>
> You might be surprised how much from an "obvious" solution some
> applications do handle those tasks. 

How obvious it is is a separate issue. What matters is that they can do
what you want.

> Personally, I was surprised by one app which offered to draw squares,
> which ended up in four separate lines. Ok, you could group thos four
> lines to a single object. But you could not handle this object like
> you could handle a real square.

Sounds suspiciously like Inkscape. We used it to create vector
illustrations in my previous job, and it was a nightmare for some things
- so much so that often people would avoid it entirely in favor of Adobe
Illustrator or similar tools.

>> Designer can do all o this quite effortlessly as well.
>
> How about a contest. I'll draw a sample image with sketchup to show
> you what I want to get done. The others show how they would have done
> it and how complicated it was - or how far they come, until the job is
> not supported by the tool any more.
>
> I'll use sketchup since it is a free tool which is very easy to use,
> although it is a 3D tool and does not handle circles very well. It
> does not support to define a line width, so I will have to create the
> width with inner and outer lines and fill it.
>
> Who would join this comparison, with which tool?

Sorry, I don't have *that* much free time. I'm doing well to comment
here occasionally. : D ...but it does sound like an interesting
exercise.

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MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-16 08:34 +0200
  Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2021-09-16 06:53 +0000
    Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-16 09:02 +0200
      Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2021-09-16 07:22 +0000
        Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-16 09:41 +0200
      Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2021-09-17 01:47 +0000
        Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-17 10:22 +0200
          Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2021-09-17 16:19 +0000
            Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-17 18:33 +0200
      Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-09-17 22:02 +0000
        Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-18 09:15 +0200
          Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-09-18 22:35 +0000
            Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-19 13:09 +0200
              Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-09-21 05:10 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-21 08:46 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-09-21 13:54 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-21 18:35 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-09-21 22:05 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-22 07:15 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-09-22 12:10 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-09-25 23:56 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-26 15:11 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-09-27 16:28 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-27 19:20 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2021-10-01 15:49 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-09-27 18:40 +0000
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2021-09-28 08:53 +0200
                Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-09-28 14:56 +0000

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