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From: sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise)
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Subject: Re: UltraPaint - Comments?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 19:03:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: john@newave.UUCP's message of 11 Jun 91 02:43:11 GMT

I bought UltraPaint based on experience with Canvas.  UP has a
respectable subset of the features of Canvas 2, and a cleaner
interface (IMHO).  I use it mostly for simple illustration work a User
Group newsletter that I edit, and for playing around.  I am very
pleased with the program.

I am not very pleased with the manual.  It is incomplete, occasionally
incorrect, filled with typographical errors (from a company that sells
a spelling checker!), and to top it off, it came as a several bunches
of shrink wrapped pages and instructions on how to assemble them into
a manual!  Nice slip cover 'though...

I ran UP on an SE under 6.0.7 MultiFinder in a 1.5Meg partiton and the
performance was quite acceptable.  I just upgraded to System 7,
performance seems unchanged except that I needed to reduce the size of
the partition due to the vast increase in System size.

        /s
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