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Expert Draw 1.0. (Software Review) (drawing application) (Evaluation)
From:
Macworld
| Date:
August 1, 1993| Author:
Fenton, Erfert
| COPYRIGHT 1993 Mac Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Expert Software's $49.95 Expert Draw is a low-end object-oriented drawing package that offers a good set of basic tools and commands. Drawings can have as many layers as memory will support, and objects can be saved in a library and opened from any Expert Draw document; several libraries of clip art are bundled with the program. There are grouping, aligning, scaling, rotating and reshaping functions; support for 24-bit color; and publish and subscribe and QuickTime movie playback capability. ...
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