3/20/2023 0 Comments Eazydraw retro![]() ![]() So let’s assume, you have fallen in love with one of the pieces visiting the Byting Willows exhibit and am still thinking about it…….what could possibly hold you back from taking it home and marveling at it every day?Īs an art collector myself I know that there are many factors involved when I make the decision to purchase a piece of art: How strong is my emotional attachment to the piece? Do I have space to display it? Does it fit into my collection? Do I have the budget? to name just a few.Įasy enough questions to answer don’t you think? But usually there is at least one of these questions that I have to answer with “no”. But what about others that are still waiting to be appreciated – true masterpieces some of them worthy to be in museums collections. Some of which have already found a new home in a collection. I see a “Fringe” binge watching session ahead of us.Īs the Byting Willows Exhibit will open its doors for one more evening on April 17th, I am wandering through 1Spot Gallery, admiring all these extraordinary pieces that have been created. ![]() Re-integrating those will be my task during those long hot Phoenix summer nights when one can’t set a foot outside of the house anyways, whereas Damian will re-color selected designs. ![]() So after much debate, we decided to buy a full fledged FileMaker version migrating all 1600 records over seamlessly except for the embedded photos. Now the database is a whole different chapter in itself: originally we used Bento, however this software is no longer supported by the manufacturer and newer OS software causes it to crash. So there is hope that we will get a complete picture of this humongous corpus after all! Some of them still don’t open (Greatworks files), but so far I was able to add about 150 new designs to the database and the ones that we are unable to open do exist in copied print outs. BUT and this was a hard pill to swallow – we are only able to retrieve the designs in black and white. With the software and hardware finally in place we were able to open the old files, converting them from MacDraw Pro in EazyDraw Retro to “tiffs” and “png’s”. I felt like a time traveler throug h the Mac Universe, barely remembering how to navigate an older Mac OS software and a mouse without scroll function. After more research we bought an old Mac Mini from eBay with a OSX Leopard version. Software in hand we discovered that the OS version on the 2003 PowerMac was still too advanced. which comes with a retro fit option for MacDraw and Claris Draw files. The first software package that we bought, “Canopener” could not open any of the files, which lead us to Eazy Draw 7.1.1. Once we were back in Phoenix, the search for retro fit software began, since copies of MacDraw Pro and Greatworks were not available. To be able to open these files we borrowed a 2003 Power Mac G4 with an older OS operating system. After posing the question, Barry Simpson dug up a CD ROM with old files, which were drawn in MacDraw Pro and Symantec Greatworks. But we were certain that the print outs did not represent the entire design work, as in those early years Damian worked on a fair amount of rug and jewelry designs as well. Thanks to the excellent filing system at the Trading Post we were able to take photographs of the old print-outs as neither Bluff nor Blanding have a copy shop. Last Labor Day, while visiting Twin Rocks Trading Post, we discovered files with a corpus of Damian Jim’s early basket designs from 1995-1997. ![]()
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