Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill
From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for Mr. GoodDraw
Message-ID: <2396@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 23:50:48 GMT
References: <299@krebs.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory
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Keywords: MacDraw Superpaint Cricket Plot

In article <299@krebs.acc.virginia.edu> wrp@krebs.acc.virginia.edu (Wm Pearson) writes:
~	I would like:
~
~	(1) A MacDraw that doesn't bomb with circles (or a Cricket Graph
~that draws circles that don't bomb MacDraw). 
~
~	(2) A Magnifying glass for MacDraw
~
~	(3) A SuperPaint that can rotate text, and that can copy
~complicated objects. 
~
~	I should note that the list price of Cricket Graph is almost
~$200, MacDraw is another $200 or so, and I understand that SuperPaint
~just went up to $150.  Where I live, if you want someone to help you

I got Canvas just a few days ago, and although I haven't had a lot
of experience with it, I am so far very pleased with it. The only
drawback with it so far is that you have to convert MacDraw format to
PICT format to read it in. But it has (1) a large selection of 
magnifications, (2) Ability to change fonts/styles/sizes within a
text box, (3) Can rotate any object, including text, through an 
arbitrary angle, (4) Bezier curves and polygon smoothing, (5) mixing
of bitmaps (arbitrary resolutions) and object-oriented drawing in the 
same picture. It's a well thought out package and I have found it easy 
and intuitive to use so far. I got it from MacConnection for $119.
It comes in both a DA and application version, although the DA doesn't
have all the features of the application.

Bill Jefferys

-- 
Glend.	I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
	do call for them?    --  Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53