RODPAINE  AIKOUSHA has offered a concise review, from my perspective as a long time MacDraw (1985) user, in terms of what this application does and doesn't do, for those of us looking for a really good replacement product. Unfortunately, I have nothing better to suggest, I am just another MacDraw fan still looking for a MacDraw replacement, sans bells, whistles and other useless and file bloating "features".

FWIW,

-Rod  
(Version 3.2)

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)

DENNIS STANLEY  I am currently using EazyDraw 1.7.0 and find that the program, although very powerful, is somewhat difficult to master as it apparently assumes a degree of advanced graphic layout knowledge that not everyone possesses. It would be extremely helpful if there were a printable manual provided so that one could follow it while learning the program. Unfortunately the level of help provided, though very thorough, is a bit difficult to understand and going from the help screen back to the working program complicate the learning process. I truly believe that this program has the potential to revolutionize the Graphic program arena.  
(Version 1.7)

ANONYMOUS  The last poster is being rather unfair re the gallery - I have Illustrator CS which I love but for the money and ease of use EazyDraw is a bargain - I use it a lot for little projects and look forward to seeing it develop.  
(Version 1.7)

ANONYMOUS  ok, I own Illustrator and it's actually one of my fav program so... I'm biased and won't try comparing.

Actually I didn't even try this one, but I'm always interested in checking out other/new stuff. The thing is, the developer's site "gallery" is a total joke and actually dissuaded me from downloading the trial. Anyone has stuff/links to actual examples of at least semiprofessional looking stuff made with eazydraw? Would like to check it out...  
(Version 1.6.4)

HIRNTOD  Is this Eazy Draw from the past times of ATARI? Loved it there...  
(Version 1.6.4)

DANIEL BOTTNER  First real alternative to MacDraw Pro I have found in my ten year search. I have bought and tried many programs.

EazyDraw has a great combination of features and ease of use. Providing all the tools I need to layout professional looking marketing materials and order forms for my photography business.

The translators have allowed me to bring forward all my efforts and materials developed over the last 15 years.

The improvements in the translator alone, from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 were amazing !

Somebody is writing an excellent piece of software, and should know it is greatly appreciated.  
(Version 1.6.3)

NOVASCOTIAN  Having tried out a lot of vector-based drawing programs, many of them very expensive, I have definitely settled on EazyDraw, and definitely got my money's worth. When I downloaded a trial version and had problems with it, I got near-instant responses from the developer. When I found bugs in an early version, I was thanked and they disappeared in later versions. When I needed a feature and couldn't figure it out, I was referred to the excellent help and the tutorials and found what I needed, or I was given explicit instructions. Very responsive.

On the relatively small downside, this program has so many pallets that I can't imagine how I'd use it if I didn't have two displays. I don't close many pallets because you really do need them. Further, these pallets are not always accessed from the menu in which you might expect to find them so some hunting is inevitable. Leaving Help running is a must or you won't find anything.

I'd really like a master pallet that held links to all the others in some intuitive layout, and this author could do it. Hope he does. Whether he does or not, I recommend this highly and rate Features at 4 only because EazyDraw doesn't do all the CAD tricks I wish it would; but then it is a fraction of the price of software that will.  
(Version 1.6.2)

OWLBOY  The Developer is very nice, I have met him personally.

-Owl  
(Version 1.6)

HK   I've been using EazyDraw for some time now. It took me a while to find a replacement for Visio. At first I tried OmniGraffle which is usable, but really geared toward diagramming, rather than a true drawing program. When I found EazyDraw I immediately felt like I found my OS X drawing program! The developers have been outstanding in fixing bugs and adding requested features. I can't commend them enough.  
(Version 1.3)