AIKOUSHA  Tried this out for a bit while attempting to revive some old forms for new "legalese."

However, it was much harder to use than going to an emulator, using MacDraw, dumping to .ps, and then printing using Preview.

Though I am impressed with the flood of preferences, major portions of the programs' interface seriously need to be brought under mac-like standards, and severely tightened-up. I taught myself MacDraw in minutes, without a manual... I still, after nearly ten years can operate it without thinking... (and without having used it for nearly a decade). EazyDraw does not have that, and many interface layouts specifically make things harder.

As an example, the foating toolbar is huge and ugly, it should resemble the old MacDraw palette, or the current adobe palettes... Rulers and Gridlines should be unobtrusive but are far from it, even when trying to use the prefs to make them that way (complete failure).

Though I suspect there might be some "Claris" copyrights to be wary of, a program that is supposed to be the modern successor of ClarisDraw should really have all the best interface elements already built-in, and moreover, tweaked for the OSX generation. Sadly I didn't see ANY of that.

I definitely want to keep this in mind for printing old documents without any roundabout tricks, but since it failed to recognize a typeface in an old document that's actually present (and replaced it with another), I really don't want to chance editing things that work fine in an emulator, in exchange for a document that is solely reliant on this software.

Keep working on this, it definitely could be a worthy successor, but has far to go, IMHO.  
(Version 2.6)

HERBERT KROEMER  Does anybody have any experience with using EazyDraw to open Canvas files, both old Canvas 5.5 and Canvas X files?  
(Version 2.6)

M-RICK  Also it doesn't use the common shortcuts, but other ones, so need to forget habits when using it, it is slow and use a lot of memory.  
(Version 2.5)

M-RICK  I like the software, it has a lot of features, but i think the interface is really a bit messy and not convenient to use. The one of intaglio is better but the software as less features than EazyDraw.  
(Version 2.5)

LEE123  I have owned this product for a year now and am very satisfied. The program is excellent for small or medium technical drawings when you don't feel like firing up the big cad program. It does layers and visibility toggles in contrast to what was stated in the last review. It does have a few quirks but overall a solid product.   
(Version 2.5)

JWENRICK  Now, if you add layers, with visibility toggling and include a bunch of the capabilities of Canvas V3.5 I'd sure be interested, and a lot of other people would be also!  
(Version 2.3.1)

TIM27  This program seems to have a lot of potential. But I agree with other posters that the interface needs desperate organization. Too many palettes and no way to control them!  
(Version 2.1.3)

MACMEND.COM  this is a reasonable package, that at one stage I looked at because of its ability to open MacDraw and will still be useful under Intel Macs to open this kind of legacy product.

However it is OVERPRICED, and for all it does its lay out and pallettes are overly complicated. And there are things it doesn't do easily..map drawing for example.

Its layout also has a juvenile feel, so drawing pros object to using it on a cudos/aesthetics basis

I beleive as others have said it could be a good product but needs a plugin API in order to get it going.  
(Version 1.9)

SPARKY  EazyDraw offers the advantages of Quartz yet reconciles the need for classic PICT for MS Word. Well done!

Now if only you could bring order to the clutter of palettes.   
(Version 1.8.1)

RICK  I tried the demo version to see how well it could import my old MacdrawPro stuff, but it's limited to about 10 objects, so it displayed an error and gave up. Though it did display a couple items from my files, it wasn't enough to judge the quality of the import implementation. So then I tried going the other way, exporting their file to a PICT file and importing it into MacdrawPro. Unfortunately MacdrawPro could not read an EazyDraw PICT file at all, so something's not working right. Guess I'll try the $20 9 month rental and see what I think. By the way, buying a full license at this point would be a bad move since the license is restricted to OS 10.3 or earlier, so you would have to purchase it again if you upgrade to the Tiger OS.  
(Version 1.7)