MacDraw: Not really on this list, as it doesn't work at all in
Classic, but I missed it terribly. Found JfDraw.jar though which
looks promising and has even more features and it's free. Others
might want to check it out.
MacDraw Pro works just fine in classic. There's a bug in the
program, though (which also manifested in OS 9, iirc) in that you
cannot re-save a file if MDP is running from a disk > 2GB.
A workaround I've discovered (very useful since I have several
professors with LOTS of old figures in MacDraw Pro) is to make a
disk image using Disk Utility, then storing the MacDraw program on
it. It doesn't need to be very large at all.
Then when you want to use MacDraw Pro, double-click on the disk
image, then double-click on the MD icon.
I have and use Macdraw II, and it does not work on a HD larger than
700mb, nor apparently with an OS later than 8.6. I cannot use it on
my G3, so have to keep my old 6116 (with G3 upgrade) in use for it.
The same goes for Macdraw Pro.
This is something that I have not been able to get around. Actually,
now that I think of it, I DID have MDII working on my G3ed 9600 with
4gb and OS9.0... for a while. Then eventually it refused to open. I
was told by other listees that it should NOT have opened at all. And
MD Pro worked... until I tried to save, which it absolutely refused
to do.
I found that MD Pro had a bug that didn't occur with MDII, but cannot
remember what it was. But I preferred MDII because of this. Initially
I managed to open MDII files in MD Pro, but eventually it refused to
work.
MDII has a bug in that the layers are not to scale and have a fixed
point somewhere in any "group"; the further from this point you draw,
the worse the mismatch. This does not show up on the screen, but you
soon find out when you print!
If you want to make labels with separating lines and you want to
print the lines, I don't know of any program other than MDII/Pro
which will do this.
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