Where can I find a MacDraw-like program for Windows, preferably shareware or low cost?
Way back in the 1980's, I used to be able to use MacDraw to create decent drawings. I could choose shapes (circles, rectangles, lines, and so forth) from the palette, put them onto the canvas, resize them, color them, and so forth. It was easy!
Now all of the popular drawing programs (The Gimp, Photoshop, etc) seem to be layer-oriented instead of object-oriented.
I really need a simple yet powerful object-oriented drawing program for Windows. MacDraw-like functionality (20 years after the fact) would be just fine.
Any suggestions?posted by jeffbarr to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
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The translators in the Claris folder in the OS 9 System Folder don't include it either. Although I haven't checked the actual backup CD yet, the list of a backup of my System Folder from April 1998 in my CD cataloging program lists many more translators. There is one for MacDraw II 1.1 & MacDraw Pro but none for ClarisDraw. CLARIS MacDraw Pro - Apple Macintosh Vintage Brand New Sealed RARE. Shipped with USPS First Class Package (2 to 3 business days). How to delete important folder in gmail. Will ship within 2 business days of receiving payment.
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- Screen Shot: The screen shot to the left shows a Claris Draw import result. The back window is a ClarisDraw window running in the Classic Mode on OS X.
- An earlier Mac drawing program marketed by Apple's Claris subsidiary in the early 1990s. It was an upgrade to the original MacDraw software from Apple and eventually became known as ClarisDraw.
Way back in the 1980's, I used to be able to use MacDraw to create decent drawings. I could choose shapes (circles, rectangles, lines, and so forth) from the palette, put them onto the canvas, resize them, color them, and so forth. It was easy!
Now all of the popular drawing programs (The Gimp, Photoshop, etc) seem to be layer-oriented instead of object-oriented.
I really need a simple yet powerful object-oriented drawing program for Windows. MacDraw-like functionality (20 years after the fact) would be just fine.
Any suggestions?
I've not used MacDraw but Inkscape and Sodipodi are opensource vector editors for windows.
posted by Memo at 1:11 PM on September 12, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by Memo at 1:11 PM on September 12, 2006 [1 favorite]
Deneba Canvas.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:19 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:19 PM on September 12, 2006
Why not just use Paint (it comes with Windows)?
posted by internal at 1:52 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by internal at 1:52 PM on September 12, 2006
Now all of the popular drawing programs (The Gimp, Photoshop, etc)
These aren't drawing programs -- although people do draw with them -- they're largely photo-editing applications.
Illustrator is a drawing program (or, as Memo puts more specifically, a vector editor), and probably the largest in the field. I'm not familar enough with MacDraw to know if it was/is pixel-based at its lowest level, but probably a vector -based illustration program is still going to meet your needs best.
thus, open source illustrator on google will get you a number of pages discussing possible alternatives.
posted by fishfucker at 1:53 PM on September 12, 2006
These aren't drawing programs -- although people do draw with them -- they're largely photo-editing applications.
Illustrator is a drawing program (or, as Memo puts more specifically, a vector editor), and probably the largest in the field. I'm not familar enough with MacDraw to know if it was/is pixel-based at its lowest level, but probably a vector -based illustration program is still going to meet your needs best.
thus, open source illustrator on google will get you a number of pages discussing possible alternatives.
posted by fishfucker at 1:53 PM on September 12, 2006
Just tried out Inkscape and it was just what I was looking for. Thanks Memo, and everyone else.
posted by jeffbarr at 2:03 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by jeffbarr at 2:03 PM on September 12, 2006
Paint .NET is pretty cool, but is still layer-oriented.
posted by mrbugsentry at 3:00 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by mrbugsentry at 3:00 PM on September 12, 2006
[MacDraw is vector-oriented. Paint is pixel-oriented.]
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:06 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:06 PM on September 12, 2006
This just won an Apple Design Award.
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posted by Mikey-San at 5:18 PM on September 12, 2006
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posted by Mikey-San at 5:18 PM on September 12, 2006
Xara Xtreme might be worth looking at. Not free, but not terribly expensive, either.
posted by planetthoughtful at 11:59 PM on September 12, 2006
posted by planetthoughtful at 11:59 PM on September 12, 2006
![Pro Pro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Macdraw.png)
Jeff, this is gonna sound nuts, but xfig does work under Cygwin. Some way overdetailed instructions here. Doesn't get much more old school than xfig.
posted by Nelson at 12:39 AM on September 13, 2006
posted by Nelson at 12:39 AM on September 13, 2006
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