{"id":678,"date":"2010-12-10T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-12-10T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:07:23","slug":"google-docs-now-includes-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/google-docs-now-includes-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs Now Includes Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty neat: <a href=\"http:\/\/googledocs.blogspot.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/google-docs-on-mobile-devices\/\">mentioned here before<\/a> and increasingly trust, now features a drawing app. It seems to be pretty full-featured, although it doesn&#8217;t seem to have scaling and measurements. By full-featured, I mean, compared with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_PowerPoint\">Powerpoint<\/a>, not with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_Illustrator\">Illustrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5248952661\/\" title=\"Google Drawing (export as PDF) by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5085\/5248952661_ebdc1df5c0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"183\" alt=\"Google Drawing (export as PDF)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googledocs.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/guide-to-getting-started-with-google.html\">Google Drawings<\/a> is also (in my testing) a little buggy, but (in my experience) web apps get updated faster than desktop apps. Anyway, there it is, for what it&#8217;s worth. Your mileage may vary. You can export your drawing in number of popular formats, and they look pretty good to me. Here&#8217;s the PDF I exported from the above drawing.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5248952715\/\" title=\"Google Drawing (Exported) by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1436\/5248952715_58cc7e52ac_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"199\" alt=\"Google Drawing (Exported)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty neat: Google Docs, which I&#8217;ve mentioned here before and increasingly trust, now features a drawing app. It seems to be pretty full-featured, although it doesn&#8217;t seem to have scaling and measurements. By full-featured, I mean, compared with Powerpoint, not with Illustrator. Google Drawings is also (in my testing) a little buggy, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[224,254,255,197,226],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-docs","tag-drawing","tag-gdocs","tag-google","tag-office-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-aW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}