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The answer might be GoldDisk's Professional Draw wich has support
for Postscript output too!!!
With it you can use Circles,Lines,Boxes,Letters,Splines-Bezier curves
all with mirroring and streching....
Little slow to use, but does the work. And it can be compared to PC's
Art's & Letters, and MAC's FreeHand.
-Kari-
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When it comes to structured drawing, the Amiga is sadly behind the
times.
Currently, as is pointed out in .1, there is one structured drawing
program, Professional Draw from Gold Disk.
Structured drawing has not been incorporated into IFF, and so
few programs can import structured graphics. The programs that
can are usually page layout programs, like Professional Page
from Gold Disk. The important feature to look for is that the
program supports "encapsulated postscript files." Encapsulated
postscript files are an industry standard format of postscript
files where, in addition to the postscript commands that draw
the picture, there is a bitmap of the image drawn by the
postscript (stored as a comment, I believe). The postscript
is just dumped into the postscript file output by the application.
The bitmap is used by the application to display on the screen
what the output will look like. The program that imports an
encapsulated postscript file can enlarge or shrink it, stretch
or warp it, or crop it since these operations can be applied
to any postscript procedure without knowing what the postscript
commands are doing or how they do it. But, since the postscript
is treated as a black box, you can not perform editing operations
like "remove that line."
I don't believe that ProWrite can import encapsulated postscript.
I've read reviews of Professional Draw that complained that it was
slow and that it was cumbersome to use (the last complaint was
usually made by people familiar with Adobe Illustrator on the Mac).
I've heard that another structured drawing program was demoed
at the AmiExpo in California. however, I don't believe that it
is shipping yet.
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