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Re: MacDraw for MacOS 10.10

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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.

> If I'd want to convert data to graphics automatically, I'd propably
> use something like gnuplot.

I'd just use the graph capability of a spreadsheet for that, as it's the
fastest and simplest way to do it.

> But the data I got is e.g. a pie chart with 18%, 20%, 45 %. I'd
> convert this to degrees, draw a line, duplicate and rotate that line
> by the proper degree, from the center of a circle. Then I'd cut the
> circle to pizza segments. 

That sounds like a lot of work just to create a pie chart. You can
create pie charts in ewer steps in Affinity Designer with the Pie Chart
tool:

<https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Tools/tools_pie.html?title=Pie%20Tool>

> I'll group and push a certain pizza segment I need outwards. I'd
> duplicate the pizza segment downwards, Add two lines and make it to a
> 3d pie segment. Then I'd add some text where it does look best.
>
> Those are really simple gui operations which are done within a few
> minuts, when you have a proper tool. It's really nothing fancy - put
> cut and split is not that easy in the tools I've checked by now.

Designer can do all o this quite effortlessly as well.

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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
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                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
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