MacDraw

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MacDraw
TypeVector-based drawing[1]
LicenseProprietary

MacDraw is a discontinued

Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. It was eventually adapted by Claris
and, in the early 1990s, MacDraw Pro was released with color support. MacDraw was the vector-based cousin of MacPaint.

In the preface of the third edition of Introduction to Algorithms, the authors make an emphatic plea for the creation of an OS X-compatible version of MacDraw Pro.[2]

Early versions

MacDraw was based on Apple's earlier program, LisaDraw, which was developed for the Apple Lisa computer which was released in 1983. LisaDraw and MacDraw were developed by the same person, Mark Cutter.

The first version of MacDraw was similar to that of

flowcharts, diagrams and technical drawings
.

Later incarnations

MacDraw II (1988) was a complete rewrite of the original MacDraw. It was developed at Apple by project leader Gerard Schutten and team members Amy Goldsmith and Marjory Kaptanoglu, and was released by

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
and earlier).

Dekorra Optics have a version of their EazyDraw software, EazyDraw Retro, that can open documents produced by the various incarnations of MacDraw, including ClarisDraw.[3] Later versions of LibreOffice support MacDraw files as well, but only if the file type 'Legacy Mac Drawing' is manually selected.[citation needed]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-5013-4211-0
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-262-03384-8
    .
  3. ^ "EazyDraw Support". EazyDraw. Dekorra Optics LLC enterprise. Retrieved March 9, 2020.


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