New features that ClarisDraw offers over MacDraw Pro:
Drawing Tools
- Shapes palette (16 new shapes)
- Regular polygon
- Straight connector
- Angled connector
Text Handling
- Faster editing
- Linked text blocks
- Text on a path
- Text wrap
- Condense option
- Extend option
- Floating text styles palette
- Outlining
Painting/Image Editing (complete list of features)
- Spray can
- Pencil
- Brush tool
- Marquee selection
- Lasso
- Eraser
- Paint eyedropper
- Wand
- Contrast
- Brightness
- Perspective
- Shear
- Distort
- Tint
- Image size and resolution options
Intelligent Features
- Smart Shadow
- Smart Embossing
- Smart Align
- Smart Size
- Replace Clones
- Smart Gradients (gradients that rotate with objects)
Precision
- Guideliner
- PointGuide
- Show Size palette (includes object placement, size, rotation and number of vertices)
General
- Create bezigons from circles, ovals, rectangles, rounded rectangles and arcs
- Text edit without ungrouping
- Presentation effects (including automatic loop, background options, advance, fit to window, center on screen, presentation cursor)
- New slide layer access popup menu
- Drawing document page size control
- Cross platform transparency (upon release of the Windows version in late 1994 or 1995)
- Drag and drop library
- Clip art library - 12 libraries, 2,400 elements
- CGM File Import/Export
MacDraw Pro features not included with ClarisDraw:
- Extensive, professional-level color editing within a palette
- 24-bit color in drawing mode. ClarisDraw supports this in Paint mode
- Pantone palettes
- Savable patterns palette
- Text Greeking
- Small Caps text style
- Text Kerning by pairs
- Two color patterns
- Customizable Font and Pen size menus
- Mouse selection sensitivity (High-Medium-Low)