Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!ukma!husc6!m2c!umvlsi!dime!sandy From: sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Canvas is good enough (was:Suggestions - Good drawing program?) Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 20:13:25 GMT References: <1990Nov14.213128.1204@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <2300.2743cc90@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Nov16.143640.11017@DMI.USherb.CA> <1990Nov16.164858.24834@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Organization: Organization? I thought entropy would take care of that... Lines: 33 In-reply-to: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu's message of 16 Nov 90 16:48:58 GMT In article <1990Nov16.164858.24834@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: > 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. I think UltraPaint 1.0 probably has the best price/performance/ features match. UP is Deneba's (Canvas' Publisher) competition with SuperPaint, and as such is cheaper than Canvas. It is very similar to Canvas except that it limits you to 8 layers and doesn't have the spellchecker, etc... Many of the dialog boxes are actually identical! To compete with SuperPaint, UP has a background paint layer, 256 color paint, greyscale TIFF editing, two kinds of curves: Besier and a polygon spline, plug-ins modules, 9 zillion floating palettes, blah, blah, blah... Since I have an SE, half the feature set (color and greyscale) are useless on my machine, but it is acceptably fast on an SE... So... whats wrong with it? The manual. I am doing the stuff DRI distributed with CP/M a great diservice by refering to the UP docs as a manual. First it comes dissasembled, and it took me about 1/2 hr just to get all the pages in the right places. More importantly, I have yet to get any useful information out of it, and with a program as complex as UP. I have tried. Lord how I have tried! /s -- Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ WISE@CS.UMASS.EDU /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\