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Subject  :  Purchasing antiquated software...
Author  :  RobertM
Date  :  29 Apr, 2005 on 23:04
Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of CorelDRAW v2.5 for OS/2? I know its almost as old as time itself, but it's quick, and does the job decently.

Dont get me wrong. I'm definitely up for suggestions on alternative OS/2 software - so if anyone has any better ideas, please let me know.

Primarily of late I plan on using it to draw some deck and porch blueprints.

Thanks in advance,
- Rob


Subject  :  Re:Purchasing antiquated software...
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  02 May, 2005 on 21:18
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80341&item=7153600123&rd=1
There is a CorelDraw 2.0 on eBay. I will find out if it includes/has an OS/2 version in it.
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1101H/vnewsf4.htm
There is mention of 2.0 on the above page.

http://sunsite.nus.sg/pub/os2/os2faq/os2faq.2.0031.html

This is not much but it might be of some help.

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Subject  :  Alternatives?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  02 May, 2005 on 21:29
http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/drawit.html
DrawIt?

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=/pub/os2/apps/graphics
Any possible alternatives among these programs?

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Subject  :  Re:Purchasing antiquated software...
Author  :  zircon
Date  :  03 May, 2005 on 03:37
If the primary purpose you'll use the software for is blueprints for a porch, why not use a CAD rather than a draw program? BlueCad by Cadware has been released free of charge, albeit with no support. Try http://www.cadware.it or an internet search.

Subject  :  Re:Purchasing antiquated software...
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  03 May, 2005 on 14:07
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bluecad&pushbutton=Search
It can also be downloaded from Hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/apps/graphics/cad
There is also Eagle Layout Editor and Pj2 Cad system.

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Subject  :  Re:Purchasing antiquated software...
Author  :  RobertM
Date  :  25 May, 2005 on 06:20

BigWarpGuy (03 May, 2005 14:07):
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bluecad&pushbutton=Search
It can also be downloaded from Hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/apps/graphics/cad
There is also Eagle Layout Editor and Pj2 Cad system.


Pj2 seems to be an earlier release of BlueCad or from a very similar design plan, tried BlueCad and its great for what I need, but I cant get it to print properly (trying to generate PDF's). I need to do a lot of reading in the manual and see what's up - I think the coordinate sizes one chooses for the screen and CAD drawing get directly translated to page size... so when I export or print, I get the CAD item in one corner, very small and a lot of empty page space. It's scalable when I import the exported DXF files into something else though it would be nice if I can save a step and just print from BlueCad. (though usually printing to any postscript printer crashes BlueCad even on the latest drivers - which is the other problem as I cant directly generate PDFs without the capability).

BlueCad may do the trick with a little more research on my part... some things were just a little easier on Corel still because of how it handles objects, and because I can have a filled and non-filled version of the same layout to use for printing a "pretty" wood-textured/colored one for the customer and a line-draw one for the blueprints...

Thanks for all your input.
- Rob


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