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From: andrzej@bcars268.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Subject: Re: Looking for Draw Programs
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 90 15:23:24 GMT

A very nice person answered my question (THANKS A LOT!) and directed
me to Digital Research's "GEM - Presentation Team".

I have called their Toronto office ((416)360-5316) and a saleperson
informed me that their drawing program is not a Window`s program,
and that they do not have a format suitable to import to Word4Windows.
I tried to call the California office ((408)482-0700), but it seems
that the number is incorrect.

Some time ago I found a program (through another nice person on 
the net) called XVTDraw, which is very good ("small is beautiful"). 
Unfortunately, it has been developed back in 1987 and from time to 
time "bombs" in Windows's 386enh mode. It still might be
used in the real mode to create a set of clipboard files which are
imported to W4W running in the 386enh mode. Obviously it is inconvenient.

Maybe there is a new version of the program? Maybe its authors could
consider porting it to Win3 environment? If it was shareware, it
could be priced around $50.00, and I would not hesitate a single
second to pay for it that much. Hey, come on all you Window's wizards,
exercise the application niche!!!


NOTA BENE:

Designer and CorelDraw are too expensive for a user who needs to draw
pictures for papers (etc.), and who does not care about all those
presentation libraries. COREL has just increased its Canadian price
to almost $900.00, which is far above the value of the program and
the marketing policy of the company is a shame.

DO NOT BUY COREL, they deserve to be punished. If you need a good
presentation program BUY MS pOWERpOINT, which is very good and priced
more reasonably (I have been using it on MAC for long time, and the
Window's version is even better).

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