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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperPaint and Canvas
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Date: 14 Nov 88 16:48:35 GMT
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In article <8811130357.AA22389@decwrl.dec.com> long@mcntsh.dec.com (I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV!) writes:
 
>I recently got hold of the Canvas v2.0 DEMO, and it looks really nice.  Not to
>mention the fact that the above graphic pasting problem does not occur!  Does
>anyone out there use Canvas, and can you comment on it?  Do you love it?  Hate
>it?  What's good, what's bad?  What does it REALLY require under MultiFinder? 
>It wants 1500K !, but I kicked it down to 520K, and it worked.  Please mail me,
>as I'm probably going to buy this program.
>
>As always, thank you!
>
>Rich

1500K?  Wow. How am I going to run it with Word under MultiFinder on a
2 Mbyte machine?

I bought Canvas before MultiFinder came out. I chose it primarily for its
DA capability. However, I never really used the DA because MultiFinder is
so much more convenient.

I can't say I love it or hate it. It's the only graphics program I use so
it's just the way I do art in manuals I write.

I read a review that said the blending of draw and paint was smoother
than SuperPaint, so I went for it. However, I never do paint anyways, so
it didn't matter. I've never tried to open bit mapped clip art with it
so I don't know if/how this would work.

There are some little anomolies in text handling. With left justified
text blocks, you have to add a space at the beginning of each new line
after the first. I hope they've fixed that in Version 2.0.

The manual isn't very good. The index is useless and I've had many questions
about how to handle text that simply aren't in the manual. For example, once
you click elsewhere after entering text, you've set the size of the text
block. If you want to add something later, you'll see text disappear. You
have to select the text block and expand it in order to see what you're
typing. Luckily, another user discovered how to display the missing text.
There was no help in the manual.

This was their first release, and as they say, the product was originally
intended only as a DA. But it kept growing until they felt they had a full
blown application. Perhaps they didn't have too much experience writing
full-blown manuals and hopefully, they've improved it. Certainly, they
must have gotten many questions upon which to base a revised version of
the manual.

I'm anxiously awaiting the upgrade which I heard was shipping. Now what I
need is a way to nudge objects a pixel or so larger or smaller. You can
position objects with the arrow keys, but I know of no way to make them
grow (or shrink) by a tiny amount using arrow keys. Any takers out there?

Shirley Kehr