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From: mazu@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Marc Mazuhelli)
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Subject: Re: Canvas is good enough (was:Sugg
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Date: 19 Nov 90 02:38:06 GMT
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In article <70100025@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>I have used canvas 2.0 and find it to be screwed up.  No other draw
                    ^^^
>program I have ever seen would produce postscript that caused our
>printer to crash, or caused it to loop for 20 minutes without a
>result.
>
>I suggest you use canvas quite extensively before you make a decision
>to purchase it.  I have given up on canvas because of its quirks for
>drawing precise technical figures, and now use MacDraw II.
>
>If you just want to make party posters, by all means buy canvas.

Version 2.0 had a few bugs when it came out.  That's why the current
version is 2.1.  I don't think recommendations should be made based on
previous versions of programs.  I'm not saying thaall the described
problems are corrected in 2.1, but it's definitely better than version
2.0!

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