Impossible Line Drawings

[livingdeb]

What was the magical tool that let me make line drawings before? Line drawings where circles could touch edges or corners of other shapes instead of being adjustable only in gigantic steps? Drawings that could be saved as gifs?

I don't think I have any of these on my Mac at home or my PC at work. Which is making this job application a lot more difficult. What kind of writing sample am I going to submit? Some all-prose thing, I guess.

And I can't let another deadline go by. I really need to get out of this job. I suspect it's going nightmarish on me. There's evidence today that the people who have taken over a certain duty, and who have been in a big fight about who would allow the most exceptions (no, you! no, you will!) is making exceptions left and right after all. And I really don't want to be caught in the crossfire, let alone caught figuring out how to code for all this nonsense.

Plus, I might really like this job (writing and editing for an educational consultant). And their expectations are low enough (two years of writing/editing experience, but only hoping for a clue about html and a clue about math and science content) that they might actually hire me.

Comments

[sallini.livejournal.com]

This may not be what you are looking for, but in a pinch, the standard Paint program can do what you mention here (at a fairly simple level, but still). Every PC I know of comes with it standard under Programs -> Accessories.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I found one on one of my computers, but I couldn't figure out how to make it do what I wanted as quickly as I wanted to. I'll have to do something else.