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From: kklw@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Kevin K L WONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Drawing thin lines in MacDraw II 1.
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Date: 1 Jun 90 02:59:16 GMT
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In article <25436@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (George J. Jefferson) writes:
>In article <70800001@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
  
>>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?


Actually, why can't MDII have a few arrowhead settings within one stationery
like the dashed line? I found the change of the shape of an existing
arrowhead irritating as well.

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