MacDraw-Like packages for the UNIX-PC (Summary of Responses)

[Bruce McKee]

This posting lists the responses to the following request:

  Question:   "Is There a MacDraw-Like package for the Unix-PC?"

  Answer:    Maybe.  The respondees mentioned Paint Power, GSS Draw, and 
	     a never-released AT&T package called ImageDirector.  Of these,
             ImageDirector sounds most like MacDraw.  The full responses are 
	     listed below.  Special Thanks go to respondees: 
     
                     Keith Hageman
                     Steve Spearman
                     guy 
	
             (guy, I would have printed your full name, but I somehow managed
	      to lose the end of your mail message. My apologies.)

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To the AT&T folk out there, does anyone know the status of ImageDirector?
Could it be distributed to the user community, or is there some kind of
pre-emptive legal agreement?
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RESPONSES
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Hi,

I recently installed a nonsupported version of AT&T's ImageDirector
for the UnixPC.  

The package doesn't come with documentation but I figured out how
to run it without any.  Compared to MacDraw, ImageDirector is a
bit more crude but does a lot of the same functions.

Pluses for ImageDirector are that it does boxes, text, scanning (if
you have a scanner).  The graphics are similar to MacDraw and their
is a "Pencil" mode for drawing with the mouse.

Output is to a dot matrix.  I don't think postscript output is available.

Regards,
Keith Hageman
drutx!khageman
(303) 538-1673 (work voice phone)

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The GSS drawing series (GSS Draw?) that AT&T marketed was object
oriented, but it was pretty simple and ugly.  The only half-way
decent drawing program I saw for the 7300 was the PaintPower
program which resembles MacPaint.  It did have a lot of bugs
though and as far as I know never got past version 1.0.

Steve Spearman  (att,ihnp4)!druco!spear

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guy

The closest thing I have seen is a package called
"Image Director" that was under development when the 7300 folded.
This package was never commercialy available for the 7300
(I was told that the program was sold for the 6300).

It has been distributed in binary form with an "att employees only"
stipulation.  I'm not sure who to ask, but if I'll see if I can get 
permission to distirbute it. (Who could care if we give away
a never finished program for a discontinued machine?)