Preliminary Review: QDesign

QDesign is a drawing package far superior to any we have seen for the QL. The program, written by Jorg Schiemann is distributed by Jochen Merz Software (see Product Sources). QDesign is provided on disk, requires 512K memory, Toolkit II and a JS or later Rom. One of the most significant differences between QDesign and other drawing packages is that it is the first to use virtual screens and vector fonts. QDesign can address a virtual screen up to 2880 x 2880 pixels providing much higher resolution than the standard 512 x 256 dots. QL, Atari , Professional Publisher, Page Designer 2 and Art+ screens can all be imported into QDesign. QDesign is written to operate under the QJump Window Manager and Pointer Environment and as such supports the QIMI Mouse (not required) as well as joystick and/or keyboard control. The 30 page maual is clean and well written.