MacDraw
Sign in to saveMacDraw is a discontinued vector graphics drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. It was eventually adapted by Claris and, in the early 1990s, MacDraw Pro was released with color support. MacDraw was the vector-based cousin of MacPaint.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- application software
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Has use
- vector graphics
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- publication date
- 1984-00-00
- operating system
- System 6
- programmed in
- Pascal
- user manual URL
- archive.org/details/macdraw
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- Early versions
- Later incarnations
- Reception
- References
MacDraw is a discontinued vector graphics drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. It was eventually adapted by Claris and, in the early 1990s, MacDraw Pro was released with color support. MacDraw was the vector-based cousin of MacPaint.
In the preface of the third edition of Introduction to Algorithms, the authors make an emphatic plea for the creation of an OS X-compatible version of MacDraw Pro.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MacDraw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.