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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Corel Draw or Harvard Draw?
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Larry Landwehr (larry@ducktales.med.ge.com) wrote:
: My wife wants to publish a newsletter. She's no artist, so she intends to
: use comercial clipart and customise it a bit by drawing a circle or a box
: around it etc. 
:  
: We have MSPublisher for manipulating text, but it is not suitable for doing
: much with graphics, so she needs a more specialised tool. Right now she's
: looking at Corel Draw and Harvard Draw. There seem to be more books in the
: stores on Corel than on Harvard, so she's inclined to go with Corel on the
: basis of popularity. Can anyone give us an informed opinion on which 
: package would be more suitable or if there is an even better alternative
: available? If this is a FAQ, please withhold the flames and just send the
: location of the FAQ document. Thanks.
:  

Go with CorelDraw.  PCMag just did a review a couple of issues ago and Adobe
Illustrator and CorelDraw were picked as the best.

: Three PS's:
:  
: 1) Is it ok to use clip art from Harvard Draw or whatever for commercial
:    purposes?

(other two deleted...)
As far as I know it's okay.  You'd have to read the licence agreement that
comes with the package to be sure.

-- 

TMC
(tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.ca)

