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Article #28387Speed of Redraw in Drawing programs
From: Tom Carstensen
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 20:06
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 20:06
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Well, I've had a chance to test most of the commercially
available drawing software programs for the Mac, to
see if any are better for drawing electronic schematics
than MacDraw. Basically, NO.
MacDraw far out runs the other drawing program I test in
terms of speed of redrawing a drawing. With schematics,
and the like, there are usually thousands of objects to
draw. MacDraw is somewhat slow at redrawing them, but
all of the other drawing programs are slower. Here's my
summary:
Aldus FreeHand Great drawing program, still slower
Canvas VERY VERY VERY Slow !!!
Cricket Draw Decent drawing program, but somewhat
slower on the redraw
SuperPaint It was slower, and not really suited
to drawing schematic diagrams
If MacDraw beats all of these in speed, and MacDraw II it
supposed to be many, many times faster the MacDraw, it looks
like MacDraw II could be an awesome program!
MacDraw, which has been around from the beginning, still
outruns the latest and greatest drawing programs in speed !!
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