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