Quick and easy drawing app?
Hi all,
I'm after something that I can doodle diagrams in during my physics lectures. Something akin to M$ Word's drawing tools, but more advanced.
The problem with Word's drawing tools is that they are a bit complicated to use (it'd be better if I could just select the line tool, and have it stay as a line tool while I draw many lines, rather than deselecting after each line, as an example), and unlike Word 2002 or 2003 on the PC the Mac Office X doesn't seem to give the drawings their own workspace, but just layer them over the top of the text.
I only have the touchpad to work with at the moment - no mouse or graphics tablet, although I plan to get a tablet when I get the money (Wacom ones are rather expensive, and I don't know of any other ones that work with Macs). But if the program were good enough this should just be an annoyance rather than a problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--Mike Peel
I'm after something that I can doodle diagrams in during my physics lectures. Something akin to M$ Word's drawing tools, but more advanced.
The problem with Word's drawing tools is that they are a bit complicated to use (it'd be better if I could just select the line tool, and have it stay as a line tool while I draw many lines, rather than deselecting after each line, as an example), and unlike Word 2002 or 2003 on the PC the Mac Office X doesn't seem to give the drawings their own workspace, but just layer them over the top of the text.
I only have the touchpad to work with at the moment - no mouse or graphics tablet, although I plan to get a tablet when I get the money (Wacom ones are rather expensive, and I don't know of any other ones that work with Macs). But if the program were good enough this should just be an annoyance rather than a problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--Mike Peel
Comments
Originally posted by Kickaha
OmniGraffle.
Seconded.
OmniGraffle rules for diagramming.
(And no, printing from OG isn't an option - I need the images embedded amongst text rather than on their own pages)
Originally posted by Mike Peel
Well, I now have the demo version installed... Am having a few problems, though. When copying the images from OmniGraffle to Word, there's severe pixellation - how can I get rid of this?
(And no, printing from OG isn't an option - I need the images embedded amongst text rather than on their own pages)
That's Word barfing on clipboard imports from non-MS sources. :P It's a known problem with Word.
Try exporting the file in OmniGraffle to another format, such as jpg or pdf, then embedding that in Word manually. That should help.
Well, I don't know that I can help if MS's Equation Editor is screwing up with MS's Word... :P
Oh, wait... are you editing equations in EE, importing over to OG, then moving back to Word?
Thanks for the help Kickaha; I'm now exporting the images as jpegs, then importing back into Word. And drooling at 10.3's expose feature as I'm doing so.
Now I just need to find the money to buy a proper copy of OG at some point...