Support for Older Graphic Programs

This guide works great i got Draw 6 working again, to complete my collection i am intending to get complete publisher with Draw 7 do you think this guide would work with that program, Or would i require to get another guide?

Support from this website allows you to continue to use such software natively on newer systems

http://windowsdraw64.comoj.com/

A bit about Micrografx Draw:

From the mid to late 1980s to about 1999 Micrografx Draw was a drawing program available to consumers, it was also quite popular in certain schools back in the 1990s and early 2000s enabling you to design and create stuff like boxes, greeting cards and various technical drawings could be created it actually reminds me of Microsoft Publisher and a Technical drawing program rolled in to one, posters were also quite simple to do along with quite a lot of other things. The great thing about this software is that although you could do a lot with it, its still simple to use.

One of things that I also found great about draw 6 is that its pretty good for when doing fonts that sidebar (known as the style gallery) is very helpful

Draw 6 has more pre-set shapes than the earlier versions of windows draw (draw 5 and below) and has a style gallery.



Here is a brief list of ways you can still get this software and what titles it tends to come under useful if you have lost your disk and want to buy another.

http://windowsdraw.createaforum.com/support/obtaining-micrografx-draw/

As far as I know Complete Publisher 99 has the final version of Micrografx Draw (Draw 7)

This method will not work with Draw 6 if you want to get Micrografx Draw 6 working there is currently a service available from the links on the post from this topic http://windowsdraw.createaforum.com/support/enable-micrografx-windows-draw-6-on-a-64-bit-computer/ where you can purchase a guide, there is also support for running Draw 5 natively too.

If you have a VM with a working copy of Windows XP or your old pc all you need to do is install this program on to the old computer running a 32-bit version of Windows XP, 7, 8 or 8.1 and copy the files from either C:\Program Files\Micrografx\ or C:\Program Files (x86) \Micrografx\  to the new computer afterwards Windows Draw 5 should run as normal except for that dialog that the beginning talking about using the registry. This method is more fiddly than the support methods used with draw 6 as i have to end task to start the program because there is a dialog behind the splash screen. Draw 5 could be made working with less fiddling everytime you start the program by getting support from the same place as Draw 6.

The help files don’t work but you can get them back using the suggestions on this page http://windowsdraw.createaforum.com/general-discussion/help-files-for-classic-programs/ this not only works for draw 5 but a lot of other programs that have this issue

The main difference between draw 6 and 5 is the fact that there isnt a style gallery on draw 5 where you can easily update the fonts, I also don’t see the great calendar function were I could easy make calendars I also have a lot more shapes I can easily draw in draw 6 including the star. There are probably a number of other stuff where draw 6 is better than draw 5, But for very basic drawing etc,  draw 5 is OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFiEFk50YE

Very helpful guidance and support got micrografx draw working in few minutes.

Will check tomorrow thanks