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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
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Subject: Re: Re: MacDraw 1.9
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 12:37:47 EST
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> > 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.

     The text drift occurs in  version 1.9 only with  custom
rulers turned on, with certain spacings of the divisions.  I
don't know about  earlier versions.   It has been  suggested
here that this  is the result  of interaction between  ruler
spacings and font sizes...  At any rate, it turns out to  be
sort of workaroundable.

     Another ugly bug is  that the Laserwriter  occasionally
prints something which is nothing like right.  For instance,
create a polygon, duplicate it, and set the duplicate  flush
against the right edge of the original.  Now hit flower-D to
make more of them.  I have found circumstances where it then
badly garbles the Laserwriter image.  Sigh.

     It's too bad that MacDraw is  so buggy.  It's SO  CLOSE
to being exactly what I need  for a number of projects,  but
until it's functionality is improved some, and a LOT of bugs
fixed (the above are just the tip of the iceberg), I tend to
avoid the silly thing whenever possible,

					Bart Massey
					...tektronix!reed!bart