I use Paint Shop Pro (JASC added vector layers and tools a few versions
ago). It is now Paint Shop Pro Photo and part of Corel http://www.corel.com
(so long, Jets And Software Company).

I really like being able to use just one graphics program for vector, bitmap
and photo retouch work. Paint Shop Pro, 90% of the features of Adobe
Photoshop CS2 at only 15% of the price.

Paul  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Genome
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:22 PM
> 
> Hi..
> Does anyone know of a vector graphics software that has 
> Microsoft paint like 
> drawing controls.. I've been using something called SmartSketch from 
> futurewave to create logos and stuff for screen printing 
> since 1995.. but 
> this software was sold long ago in the 90's to Macromedia 
> which is now 
> acquired by adobe and ofcourse been dropped.. Actually that program 
> smartsketch is what the famous Flash Animation ascended 
> from... i.e. I'm 
> looking for a program that has Flash like drawing tools.. Now 
> some would say 
> to use Flash but flash isnt really designed for Illustration 
> and printing to 
> paper but for web animation.. There are others like Xara, 
> Illustrator and 
> freehand and coreldraw which basically are similar but they 
> are so hard to 
> use, i.e. you have to learn lots of triks just to do a simple 
> thing like 
> compounding an object.. in Flash and smartsketch you just 
> breakapart 2 
> objects and overlay them to compound them.. so I always find 
> my self going 
> back to the old software which ofcourse wont work in the near 
> future as its 
> very old....
> 
> thanks.. 
 

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