Subject: Re: Drawing program

From: [email-masked] (Verne H. Bohlender)
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 19:33:37 GMT

Use PaintShopPro it's excellent for this.

Verne

On Sat, 01 Feb 1997 08:00:17 -0500, Pete <[email-masked]> wrote:

>Which program is the most common program used to make drawings for
>woodworking projects? I Used Corel Draw 4, but is where any other
>programs that would work better. Thanks

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From: "Andrew Patterson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:32:25 GMT

Verne H. Bohlender <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> >programs that would work better. Thanks

Got to disagree with you, Verne. Paint Shop Pro is a bitmap photo editor.
It may be easy to draw pictures (and if this is what you want, of course it
is the right tool), but it is nearly impossible to modify one. It works
just like a piece of paper and pencils (which, of course, make it
relatively easy and familiar to use at first). Objects (lines, circles, et
cetera) lose their individuality, they are merged in with the rest of the
pixels. You cannot have different levels of objects (on top of each other;
ones on top overwrite anything under). Mind you, there are bitmap editors
out there (Micrografx Picture Publisher (in ABC Graphics Suite), Corel
Photo Paint, others) that can do this, but they are still bitmap
representations of the object, so cannot really be scaled well. I suggest
that you try a vector drawing program; you may like it better. It does
require a bit different way of thinking; you draw in terms of objects and
fills rather than painting like on paper. Corel Draw is a vector drawing
tool, but it is less technical in nature than CAD programs. There are many
out there in a wide range of prices.

BTW, I have not looked at PSP lately, so perhaps it has some of these
features, but it still will not match a vector drawing tool.

Andrew