MacDraw II ( 1988 ) released by Claris introduced many missing features and was also enhanced for the Macintosh II.

XTND was first introduced on some of Claris ' " II " releases -- MacWrite II, FileMaker II and MacDraw II.

MacDraw was a vector based drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984.

MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite.

It was eventually adapted by Claris and in the early 1990s MacDraw Pro was released with color support.

While this didn't include database ( Filemaker Pro ) or a dedicated Desktop Presentations application ( MacDraw Pro was offered as a kinda sorta DTPr piece ), it did attempt to compete with MS Office.

Silicon Beach's best known " productivity software " product was SuperPaint, a graphics program which combined features of Apple's MacDraw and MacPaint with several innovations of its own.

Soon after this model was released, several other applications became available, including MacDraw, MacProject, Macintosh Pascal and others.

One of the first popular image editors was Apple's MacPaint, companion to MacDraw.

Claris was also given the rights to several lesser-known Apple products such as MacProject, MacDraw, and the hit Apple II product, AppleWorks.

After rebranding in a style similar to FileMaker, MacDraw and MacWrite, it was released in 1991 as ClarisWorks, and became another huge success for the company.

The result was the " Pro " series: MacDraw Pro, MacWrite Pro and FileMaker Pro.

MacDraw was useful for drawing technical diagrams and floorplans.

Famously a call to create a version of MacDraw for Intel machines was made in the introduction to Introduction to Algorithms

The first version of MacDraw was similar to that of MacPaint, featuring both the same tools and patterns.

However MacDraw was vector based, meaning that an object's properties and placement can be changed at any time.

MacDraw was more advanced than MacPaint, featuring a grid and the ability to change the drawing dimensions.

MacDraw was especially useful in drawing flowcharts, diagrams and technical drawings.

MacDraw was based on Apple's earlier program, LisaDraw, which was developed for the Apple Lisa computer which was released in 1983.

Third-party software applications available included MacDraw, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Aldus's PageMaker.

MacDraw is the vector edition of MacPaint.

MacDraw included features for printing and also integrated into MacWrite via cut-and-paste.

However MacDraw lacked support for using more than one document at a time, and also lacked zooming capabilities.

LisaDraw and MacDraw were developed by the same person, Mark Cutter.

A number of variations of the Chicago typeface, created using MacDraw by David Remahl on 2004-09-21.

Claris did offer an " Office suite ", composed of MacWrite Pro, Claris Resolve, and MacDraw Pro.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

Category: Products introduced in 1984

* Digital Linear Tape, a magnetic tape cartridge data storage technology introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984

In 1984 IBM introduced the Enhanced Graphics Adapter which was capable of producing 16 colors and had a resolution of 640 by 350.

The PC / AT, introduced in 1984, had three 8-bit slots and five 16-bit slots, all running at the system clock speed of 6 MHz in the earlier models and 8 MHz in the last version of the computer.

In 1984 Holden introduced the VK Commodore, with significant styling changes from the previous VH.

The newer 16-bit standard, the IBM AT bus, was introduced in 1984.

It was employed for the IBM PC / AT, introduced in 1984, and then widely used in most PC / AT compatible computers until the early 1990s.

In the PC / AT introduced in 1984, IBM added external circuitry as well as specialized code in the ROM BIOS to enable special series of program instructions to cause the reset, allowing real-mode reentry ( while retaining active memory and control ).

* 1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.

* 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous " 1984 " television commercial.

In Ethiopia, a national literacy campaign introduced in 1978 increased literacy rates to between 37 % ( unofficial ) and 63 % ( official ) by 1984.

The first low-cost MIDI sampler was the Ensoniq Mirage, introduced in 1984.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

The first HP LaserJet — introduced in 1984 — came with a built-in 8 MHz 68000.

Miyazaki's next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika, 1984 ), was an adventure film that introduced many of the themes which recur in later films: a concern with ecology and the human impact on the environment ; a fascination with aircraft and flight ; pacifism, including an anti-military streak ; feminism ; and morally ambiguous characterizations, especially among villains.

Early minivans models may be smaller than modern models, but still fit into the child subsegment ; the first-generation Renault Espace introduced in 1984 would be classified nowadays as a compact MPV, but later generations grew in size and the Espace is now considered a large MPV.

Matra took their idea to Peugeot who thought it too expensive and risky so the project was then presented to Renault, becoming the Renault Espace introduced in 1984.

British police officers are governed by similar rules, such as those introduced to England and Wales under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( PACE ), but generally have greater powers.

IBM introduced a 16-color scheme ( one bit each for RGB and Intensity ) with the Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) for its first IBM PC ( 1981 ), later improved with the Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) in 1984.

In 1984, Hamilton and Marlene Zuk introduced the " Bright Male " hypothesis, suggesting that male elaborations might serve as a marker of health, by exaggerating the effects of disease and deficiency.

The first entries in the 1000 series ( models 1000 and 1200, introduced in 1984 ) were graphics terminals, peripherals to be connected to a general-purpose computer such as a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX, to provide graphical raster display abilities.

#: Around 1983 – 1984 a new color identification standard (" Line SECAM or SECAM-H ") has been introduced in order to make more space available inside the signal for adding teletext information ( originally according to the Antiope standard ).