Illustrator isn’t just a drawing program any more. With major improvements to its text functions, the addition of some new drawing tools, and a complete charting function, Illustrator 3.0 clearly separates itself from its nearest competitors...

Adobe and Aldus may be in the midst of tying the connubial knot, but Illustrator and FreeHand — the companies’ respective top draw programs — continue to duke it out. Illustrator version 5.5 includes improved text-formatting...

Until recently, Adobe Illustrator was the only Macintosh drawing application offering an interactive interface that took advantage of some of PostScript’s more advanced capabilities. Now Illustrator has a formidable challenger — FreeHand...

According to the introductory videotape that comes with Adobe Illustrator 88, “Now anyone can create high-quality graphics and illustrations quickly and easily.” One has to take promotional videos with a grain of salt, of course; the...

A fun drawing and animation program with many built-in backgrounds and clip-art. Object-oriented so things are (re)moveable.  Sound effect can be added as well as recording your own

Imagine if Painter were a vector-based instead of a pixel-based program. Fractal claims that's what Expression is: an infinitely scaleable Painter. To some degree they're right, but unfortunately, not enough. Expression is a natural-media...

Illustrator 8 to me is a great solid version of illustrator. Before this Illustrator had some issues that created problems. After this version they are just adding extra features and effects. You can merge shapes. work in preview mode. manage...

Legal Notice: I found some available serial numbers in SIT Image so I could proceed the installation. And the software is kind of running in AUTHORIZED STATUS. (from @mt.wang - who added the screenshot from a PC) The rivalry between Adobe...

Kiddie Color Paint (KCP) was what looks like a prototype for a drawing program made by a dad for their children.  Not sure this ever came out as a fully released product, tough.  This is not exactly the most stable drawing app but it's...

The newest upgrade for Adobe Illustrator, version 7.0, is just like Christmas — for Windows users. For them, Illustrator 7.0 offers a cornucopia of gifts — filters, layers, gradients — everything the Mac version has had since 5.0....

FreeHand has long been one of the most powerful draw programs on the Mac. Versions 1.0 and 2.0 offered more features than any draw programs in their time. But FreeHand 3.0’s emphasis on questionable interface enhancements allowed Adobe...

Design Your Own Home Architectire Object-oriented  floor planning

Deneba has positioned Canvas as an all-purpose graphics and publishing tool — ready to take on any page layout, vector illustration, bitmap editing, or Web publishing project. The problem with multi-function packages is that they’re...

ArtBeat Professional  is an object-oriented drawing program from Pie Practical Solutions Inc. It  offers vast capabilities and features at  an affordable price. Its  astonishing speed,  easy to use interface and dedicated...

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing your vector drawing program worked with your brain for a change, you definitely want to check out FreeHand 8. With FreeHand 8, you can easily create many awesome effects that in other drawing programs...

Does the world need yet another object-oriented drawing program? if the program does something special, the answer is yes. Paradigm is such a program. It adds relational drawing abilities to the basic drawing package. In an ordinary drawing program,...

Alphie is a highly customizable alphabet-drawing program that should be welcomed by anyone teaching children or adults their ABC’s.  Four editable print/script fonts may be copied or traced and provisions exist for creating your very own.