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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw upgrade wishes
Message-ID: <3366@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-May-86 13:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 27 13:00:00 1986
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In article <3503@reed.UUCP> bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) writes:
[...]
>and to persuade Apple to fix MacDraw, which is about due for an upgrade
>anyway.
>
I find MacDraw to be one of the most powerful applications around, and also
one of the most frustrating.  There are several small but vital items I wish
were corrected in an update:

	o Oh, for a 'nudge' command!  Nudge is a term from Silicon Beach's 
	  Silicon Press, and very appropriate, I think.  There are so many
	  cases where I want an object to move {up,down,right,left} by one
	  pixel I could never count them all...

	o Why doesn't a program from Apple handle Desk Accessories correctly?
	  Yes it does handle them.  No, I don't call its method satisfactory.
	  It insists upon closing all DA's when the program window is
	  activated, something I find *very* annoying.  It changes the
	  menubar because the program itself takes up the whole thing: is
	  this necessary, and if so how can it be done nicely?  MacDraw is 
	  one program I really wish I could use Tempo with, but it doesn't
	  work with it!

	o Why doesn't a program from Apple handle fonts correctly?  Putting
	  fonts and their sizes together is OK--not scrolling them is not.
	  Jazz is a good example of how to do this correctly, I believe.
	  I will go try the patches posted to the net...

	o The ability to draw an arc with both endpoints on a vertical or
	  horizontal line should be there.  Drawing half-circles can get
	  very frustrating...(best method I found is to group two quarter
	  circles together)

For the people that say 'use MacDraft', I did.  I went back to MacDraw.  Why
can't MacDraft open MacDraw files?  Transferring something between them
reduces it to a PICT, not objects.  Is there a format for objects on the
clipboard, which defaults to PICT if the Pasting program can't handle it?

Enough griping...next year I will learn how to do this myself while I am
'stranded' away from telecommunications in Goettingen, Germany.  :-)

--Chris
-- 
Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD
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