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Can anyone please recommend a free bitmap drawing and painting
program for Windows that lets one draw a circle or ellipse by
starting from the center instead of a tangential corner ?

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> Can anyone please recommend a free bitmap drawing and painting
> program for Windows that lets one draw a circle or ellipse by
> starting from the center instead of a tangential corner ?

Not free, but cheap. CorelDRAW allows all sorts of options in drawing
shapes. The CTRL key and the ALT key do all sorts of magical things.

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> Can anyone please recommend a free bitmap drawing and painting
> program for Windows that lets one draw a circle or ellipse by
> starting from the center instead of a tangential corner ?
>
I will suggest that, if you want Free software, you try in
`alt.comp.freeware`.
The range of totally freeware stuff is massive.

bw..

On Aug 28, 11:45 pm, Rôgêr <ab...@your.isp.com> wrote:
> p...@rediffmail.com wrote:
> > Can anyone please recommend a free bitmap drawing and painting
> > program for Windows that lets one draw a circle or ellipse by
> > starting from the center instead of a tangential corner ?
>
> Not free, but cheap. CorelDRAW allows all sorts of options in drawing
> shapes. The CTRL key and the ALT key do all sorts of magical things.

Thanks. I think I still have a very old version of CorelDRAW
somewhere. I don't know if it has this particular feature. I'll
dig it up when I have time and see.

Most Amiga painting progs - PPaint, DPaint, Brilliance, etc -
had this feature, and it's one of the things I miss badly when
I want to do a quick bitmap drawing with MS Paint.

On Aug 28, 11:46 pm, "meerkat" <m...@cov.com> wrote:
> <p...@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news: oups.com...> Can anyone please recommend a free bitmap drawing and painting
> > program for Windows that lets one draw a circle or ellipse by
> > starting from the center instead of a tangential corner ?
>
> I will suggest that, if you want Free software, you try in
> `alt.comp.freeware`.
> The range of totally freeware stuff is massive.
>
> bw..

Thanks. I've often heard that NG mentioned, but never actually
hung out there. I'll go ask.