2D design program

does anyone know of a free/cheap design program? I'm looking to layout my garden in various ways and it would be nice to have something to scale. 3D isnt necessary. I use an advanced CAD program at my work. I'm looking for something cheap for home use. thanks!

Hi Slushball,
Have a look at Cadintosh (from Thomas Lemke, the creator of the wonderful "Graphic Converter"), and TurboCad Mac Designer 2D for a couple of cheap (though not free) options. Both have free trials available.
Both work very well, though they don't have all the whizzbangery of their dearer rivals of course.
Cheers
Rod

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I was most disappointed to find, however, that the letters I really wanted (Adobe Garamond Alternate Caps) is not in this collection and indeed, one now has to use another fancy designing program to construct those letters. I can’t afford to buy Photoshop just to construct two special capital letters. I’ve used the B and M in my logo for Balquhidder Music for years - but from jpgs - and I was hoping to have more flexibility in the future. I spent $169 to make sure I am in compliance. But I didn’t get anything of use to me.
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---****** background for all these questions is at bottom of this post:
Question 1:
I read a little on the in and out parameters and that IN is "by reference" and OUT and IN-OUT are by value. To me "by reference" means "pointer" as in C programming. So it seems to me that I could call a function with an IN parameter and NOT put it on the right side of an assignment statement. In other words, I'm calling my function
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Brad Bueche wrote:
Question 1:
I read a little on the in and out parameters and that IN is "by reference" and OUT and IN-OUT are by value. To me "by reference" means "pointer" as in C programming. So it seems to me that I could call a function with an IN parameter and NOT put it on the right side of an assignment statement. The IN parameter is not passing by reference. It is passing by value. This means variable/value of the caller used as parameter, is copied to the (pushed) stack of code unit called.
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