Getting a simple graphic illustration into Nisus

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js
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Getting a simple graphic illustration into Nisus

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Somebody asks me how to create a simple graphic for insertion into Nisus, like what some word processors offer to do directly from a menu.
Personally I use OmniGraffle, but this is far more than my contact person wants. All he needs is to be able to
to draw a line
to draw a square
to draw a circle
Would anbody know a really simple application that serves this purpose?
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DrawBerry is a free program which seems to be all your acqaintance is looking for.
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Classic Nisus Writer -- the FIRST WP with graphics capability. :lol:

The others finally copied it. They also copied NW's verti ... (No! For heaven's sake, don't mention the vertical ruler!!!)

In OS X, look for a program with LinkBack. http://linkback.nisus.com/

And you might ask the question: Why is there no mention of LinkBack up front on the Nisus site? Or rather, no mention that I could find. I had to look for LinkBack in the "search".

Why isn't Nisus trumpeting this on its front page or at least the product page? Why isn't it saying: "Use LinkBack apps to build your own custom suite around Nisus Writer." Not just "saying" -- try "shouting!!!"

And when you get to the Linkback page, you might go to the "More apps" page. And you get the icon only, not the name. Come on, guys, that is not the most encouraging interface. :(

Cheers, Geoff

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Re: Getting a simple graphic illustration into Nisus

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Lanx wrote:DrawBerry is a free program which seems to be all your acqaintance is looking for.
Thanks. This is what I had been looking for. This said, Drawberry is still somewhat unstable, and there seems no direct way to copy and paste into Nisus. Thanks anyway.
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Re: Getting a simple graphic illustration into Nisus

Post by ptram »

I don't know of free drawing programs, but these are excellent title offered at a very reasonable price:

Intaglio (http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/)
Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com/)
VectorDesigner (http://www.tweakersoft.com/vectordesigner/)
Lineform (http://www.freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=6020)

Intaglio and Lineform are even LinkBack compatible with Nisus Writer.

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Some excellent programs, Paolo. The difficulty is making the decision about which one, although Pixelmator is different from the other three, being an image/raster editor rather than a vector drawing program, which the other three are. These programs are drawn from a number which rely on the technologies built into OS X, so to a fairly large extent, they are all putting a front end on to the same capabilities. It is difficult for any of them to claim a significant advantage.

As a Canvas and (to a lesser extent) PhotoLine 32 user, though, I am looking at the work of these developers in Cocoa and wondering where on earth their heads are at. They have great vector, raster and text capabilities to draw on and they are not bringing them together into one program under one interface. Even the Stone man http://www.stone.com/ with his drawing and publishing program, Create, didn't incorporate image editing but produced a separate image program, iMaginator, of (it appears to me) limited capability.

An integrated workspace. Why not??? THAT would make a difference! The integrated workspace in Canvas is so precious that I am one of many Canvas users sticking to it like glue, even though the shortsighted company which bought Deneba (the company which originated Canvas back in the day) a few years ago has ended development of the Mac version and seems to be fiddling while Rome burns on the PC version (and while it mines Canvas for features to add to its ridiculously generic photo editing programs for PCs).

Now, if we had a good integrated vector/raster graphics/DTP program, with Linkback both ways to NWPro -- THAT would be ideal.

In the meantime, we devotees of the integrated workspace will continue to behave like a mob of penguins on the edge of the ice, knowing that the seals and orcas are circling. We knew it worked on OS X.3.9, so when OS X.4.x came out, we all shuffled around until one of us got impatient and took the leap, tested Canvas and found it worked on Tiger. Just recently, we have all been shuffling around at the edge of the ice again, pushing and shoving ... ah! -- there goes Rikchard! Hey, does it work or did the seals get you? It worked. Now we're leaping in (well, I'm not yet, Leapard costs money and I'm not sure I can put up with the new eye candy; I find it irritating). :D

Cheers, Geoff

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Re: Getting a simple graphic illustration into Nisus

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Not a really chep application,granted (though cheaper than many), but I like CorelDraw. I never understoog why Corel dismissed its Mac version. I think, mostly compared to Adobe Illustrator, that CorelDraw is the most Mac-like graphics application. See its interface for example, ad compared to Illustrator's. This is a reason that keeps me sticking to Tiger.

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