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From: rubin@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw 1.9
Message-ID: <4297@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 11:15:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 11:15:35 1985
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: MacDraw Bug
Summary: yes, it's a bug

> One fairly major bug I hope that they fixed is that ugly one with text
> objects inside grouped objects.  When you move (drag) a gouped object
> which has text objects in it, the text objects drift from their correct
> positions.  Can anyone else confirm that this is a MacDraw bug, or could
> it have been a damaged system or font file?

Yes, but it can be avoided by using center-justified text; only left- or
right-justified text seems to cause the drifting problem.  Then there are
the numerous bugs with high quality printing: pen patterns other than black
do all kinds of wierd things, and "smoothed" polygons have all their
wavers and jaggies amplified.  And the bug with DA's that put up their own
menus: MacDraw blows them away.

General question.... why does Apple only sell software that's low on features?
I know the rumor about MacWrite being deliberately crippled so as not to
compete with Microsoft Word, but why have they never fixed MacPaint to use
normal scroll bars or let you select beyond screen boundaries, or MacDraw to do
the stuff MacDraft does, or MacTerminal to work properly?  (As I've heard it,
Apple wouldn't let Columbia University GIVE them Kermit protocol for
MacTerminal unless Columbia paid for a MacTerminal source license!)