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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Grayscale/UltraPaint
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Date: 28 Jun 90 14:00:38 GMT
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Last night I was reading all the articles about how good the Zoom modem
is, when mine started spewing out all kinds of garbage. I live in an
area that probably has noisy phone lines and it was still a bit warm in
the house. Both of those conditions are intolerable to the Zoom modem.

But all of that is beside the point. I was in the middle of replying to
Boyd's article in which he complained about a grayscale image in 
UltraPaint taking at least an hour to print.

It's UltraPaint, not the grayscale image. Put that image in Word, PageMaker,
Digital Darkroom and probably others I haven't tried and you'll find that
it doesn't take all that long to print it. (You'll need LaserWriter 6.0 to
print it from Word.)  The maximum time should be about two minutes.

In UltraPaint, you don't need a grayscale image to take that kind of time.
I just made a tree (like they suggest in their tutorial), decorated it with
their "grass" setting and the leaves tool. It took 45 minutes in both
UltraPaint and Word. I don't know what they're doing, and I'm surprised that
I've read absolutely nothing about UltraPaint in the trade press since its
introduction (maybe one review that didn't discuss the printing problem).

Like Canvas, they seem to have good ideas and build a feature-rich program.
Canvas is easier to use that just about any drawing program, but if you
just draw a simple box and put it in Word, two of the sides won't print.
How can they give us so much in neat features and ease of use tools, then
fail so miserably on simple things like printing and documentation. (If
you're an original Canvas owner, you know what I mean about the set of
update manuals. We have nothing but a mish-mash of pieces of documentation.)

OK Flame Off of Deneba (but I could go on about their support too).

Shirley Kehr