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From: shawn@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Shawn Broderick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: TopDraw Anyone?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 01:30:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: eboltz@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU's message of 11 Feb 91 18:53:17 GMT


I've used TopDraw a couple of times for some specific projects.  I've
been doing all sorts of graphic work on Macs for something like four
years, and I thought that TopDraw beat the pants off any piece of
software I've used on the Mac for general, object-oriented, art
creation.  TopDraw has problems, but in terms of features and options
I think they've done a good job.

The program crashes _A LOT_ (if I could bold and underline I'd have
done both a couple of times there).  It crashes quite creatively
sometimes too (I've seen TD do more neat things with a crash than I've
seen any other piece of software do - a dubious distinction).  

HOWEVER, I think it's a really great app.  IMHO, It's one of those apps
that is a great idea, was done in a fine way, but really screams
for a version 1.1 to get some feature fixes, format compatibilities, 
and stability fixes.

Check it out - it's really worth taking a look at.

Shawn Broderick
shawn@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
merk!bb!shawn