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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Drawing thin lines in MacDraw II 1.
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Date: 1 Jun 90 00:51:15 GMT
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In article <70800001@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>One irritating thing about MacDraw II 1.0 is that once you change the
>arrowheads given to you at startup, it is apparently impossible to get
>them back to the original format.  You can play with them all day, but
>the original shape cannot be recreated.  Sheesh.

Create a template document with all the arrowheads you like (inc. the default)
then just make a copy when you want a particular one.

Many features of MDII are really wonderful, but its arrowhead implementation
is one of its weak points.  If you have a line with existing arrows, and you
want to change them you need to change to a line with no arrows, edit the
arrow, then put the arrows back. Intuitive?

And another thing .. How come I can put arrows on the ends of a curved
segment in good old MacDraft but not in the latest release from Claris?
(but MacDraft's arrows are really ugly - you just can't win.. )
George Jefferson    jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu