From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 12:46:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA23615 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:46:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23610 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:46:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA18574; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:43:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602112043.NAA18574@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: CAD and word processor To: alex@tarkhil.redline.ru (Alex Povolotsky) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:43:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alex Povolotsky" at Feb 11, 96 10:30:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > My friend runs a small ad agency, and he's tired from ever-dropping > Win'95. I promised him to look if there are some toolf for FreeBSD: > > - good general-purpose drawing tool like CorelDRAW; > - convertor from, say, PostScript to CorelDRAW format; XPaint. There are other packages, including a distribution licensed full-blown CAD package that you have to license for non-commercial redistribution from NASA (Ames?). But it works great. The UNIX version of the Island Graphics programs may in fact run under IBCS2 ABI. > - word processor with some MS Word-recognisable output (Word processor > output, not plain text!) MS-Word will run under Willows. The current status is "not quite ready for release" on the FreeBSD port (no, I'm not doing the port, I'm just watching --- so far all my hacks have been preempted with better hacks by Sujal or someone else before I even get them cleaned up. 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.