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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;YF37)
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Subject: Re: Comments on Canvas requested
Keywords: Canvas, drawing programs
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Date: 31 Jan 88 03:02:21 GMT
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In article <764@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey) writes:
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>Has anyone had any experience with Canvas? Is it good, not only for art-work
>but also for technical diagrams? I note that it has macros. Do these make it
>easy to set up graph axes and things like that?

I've used Canvas for a while now, and I like it.  I've used it for technical
diagrams, mixing both bitmap and object-oriented pictures.  I really like the
variable expand/shrink feature that lets you work at any expansion/shrinkage
factor.  It does work on a Mac II and does support the original 8 Macintosh
colors.

I've use the macro capability a bit, only to save something I use alot.  I don't
know about using them for graph axes, unless they are all the same, or at least
scaleable.

Canvas is not with problems, though.  Switching between object-oriented and
bitmap is a little tedious, and while working on a bitmap image, it seems to
switch back to object-oriented mode somewhat unpredictably.  The version I
have (1.02, I think) has some bugs, but hopefully they'll be fixed in the
next version.

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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