Re: Early Apple II paint programs?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> The truly great paint programs came with the release
>> of the IIGS:
>
>There was also:
>
>Draw Plus (draw program)
>
>And Top Draw later evolved into Beagle Draw.  Which could really take
>advantage of a feature in the Harmonie Deskjet drivers with setting
>the resolutions.  I did some stuff for AD&D with the resolution set
>to 150x150 and it came out real good.  Unfortunately, Beagle Draw
>did have bugs and haven't found any way to import the files into
>something for the Mac.

Sure you can!  Since it works with Harmonie, it
should also work with the LaserWriter driver.  Take
the LaserWriter driver from System 6.0 and install
it into System 6.0.1.  System 6.0's LaserWriter
driver generates more generic Postscript.  Ok, now
use the LaserWriter driver's "print to disk" feature
to PRINT your Top Draw documents to a
Postscript file on disk.  Take that file to an HFS
floppy using the HFS FST.  On the Mac, open the
Postscript file in a draw program.  The scalable
image is there!  It really works.  The LaserWriter
driver simply translates all the draw commands
into Postscript.

If it lets me take my AppleWorks GS page layout
documents to the PC, the LaserWriter driver's
Postscript output should EASILY let you take your
draw documents to the Mac.