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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The FullWrite 1 Meg controversy
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Date: 27 May 88 04:29:24 GMT
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>  I think I'll start a slight controversy, if Ashton Tate needs to dump
>something to get the memory requirement down.  How about the Picture
>drawing enviroment.  I'd rather use a "real" drawing enviroment anyways.
>Comments, anyone just absolutly in love with FWP drawing enviroment. I'm
>not.  The rest of the program is very very good, but the drawing enviroment
>might be a good canidate for axing.

I tend to agree. I have SuperPaint (looking forward to SuperPaint II with
autotrace) and Freehand on my disk. Between the two, I can usually do what I
want without the draw environment. 

But -- for folks who don't have a draw environment, it's probably a good
deal. Microsoft is certainly not ignoring it -- they're going to be bundling
SuperPaint with Word 4.0.

It's convenient, which is nice, but I don't think integrated systems really
sell on the Mac -- they aren't really needed (you don't believe me? As
Lotus. The only exception is Works, which seems to be the integrated system
for folks who want all these tools, but don't need high-end stuff on any of
them). My bet is that a lot of people are either going to stick with bitmap
programs like MacPaint or SuperPaint, or graduate to the high-end stuff like
Freehand or Illustrator. The draw layer seems right in the middle somewhere
to me. 

I do plan on giving it a good workout as soon (hah!) as I stop being under
deadline pressures and have time to putter. Right now, I can't afford it --
learning a new word processor is more than enough fun (yes, folks, I
literally switched word processors in mid-stream, breaking rule number 3 of
writing. Which says something of what I think of FullWrite. And I haven't
regretted it [and before you ask, Rule #1 is "Back up your hard disk" and
Rule #2 is "Damnit! Back that thing up! Now!"). But I expect that I'll
probably standardize on Freehand, because I don't think I'll be able to do
what I want to do in the FWP draw layer -- especially since the work will
end up having to be exported to a layout program.


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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