Hello Rosemary
For years I've been using an old RISC OS Acorn machine for lace
designing, but I know that when it dies I won't replace it, so I've
recently bit the bullet and bought Adobe Illustrator CS2 for the Mac.
The reason I went for the Acorn is that I could bend and stretch lace
patterns (drawn with the built in !Draw program and distorted with
!TypeStudio) more or less any way I wanted. At the time, late 1980s,
there was nothing for PC that could touch it - apart maybe from AutoCad
which would have cost more than a computer.
CS2 can do all I want it to with the envelope tool. It's not as
intuitive to me (yet!) as the Acorn but I have been able to draw a
torchon pattern and then bend and wave it, so I know it's got the
potential. It will also do a great deal more than I'll ever need!
However, if all you want to do is draft accurate grid based laces then
*any* CAD program should be able to do it. After all a lace pattern is
only lines and dots! Try Googling 'CAD Mac'
Brenda
On 11 Jul 2006, at 20:01, Rosemary Naish wrote:
Greeting fellow Spiders,
I have been following the thread on designing with interest, and
wondered if any of you used Macs as opposed to PC's? If there are any
fellow MAC addicts out there who have found some lace design software
that is properly compatible with Mac's I'd be very grateful to learn
about it.
Rosemary in sunny Somerset.
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