Expert Draw 1.0. (Software Review) (drawing application) (Evaluation)

From: Macworld | Date: August 1, 1993| Author: Fenton, Erfert | Copyright information

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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