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From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: Canvas is good enough (was:Suggestions - Good drawing program?)
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	The two contenders mentioned as Good Macintosh Draw Programs
were SuperPaint 2.0 and MacDraw II 1.1.  Another netter added Canvas
2.1.  Those three tend to pretty much sum up the QuickDraw-based Draw
Program market.  There are other contenders, but few match the
price/performance/features of these three.

Brief reviews/opinions:

o MacDraw II 1.1 - A good, standard, draw program.  Probably the best
of the three for people who use an unexpanded Mac Plus, SE, or
Classic.  Has all the basic features, and then some.  -Very- nice
on-line help facility (same help engine as MacWrite II).

o Canvas 2.1 - My personal favorite.  Slow, but still acceptable, on
68000 Macs.  Much more useful on Mac II level machines.  Very full
command set, follows the Macintosh interface well.  Well-written
documentation.

o SuperPaint 2.0 - I'm just not fond of this one, although some of my
friends swear by it.  Unacceptably slow on 68000 Macs.  The interface
doesn't feel quite "right".  Loading/saving a file is -slow-.  On the
up side, it has an extraordinary command set, and has built-in hooks
for adding additional command "modules."

-- 
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