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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: SuperPaint 2.0 impressions...
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Date: 3 Mar 89 17:28:43 GMT
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After using SP 2.0 to put together a few flyers, I'd have to say that it's
worth the upgrade price to me; however, I'm more impressed with the features
in 1.1 that they've enhanced than many of the new features.  Things like
multiple fonts and styles within a text box, duplication where you can set
the X & Y offsets, 1-degree rotation of text; I particularly like that when
you group text with other objects, and then shrink the grouped object, the
text scales correctly (about time!).  All of these are things they needed to
correct, and they did.  I like the autotrace features, though it's taking
some time to find out how to autotrace beziers; it's not revolutionary, but
it ain't bad.

I didn't have any speed problems (no more than SP 1.1) with a Mac Plus (2.5
Megs memory) under MultiFinder, and that's with a *lot* of text objects....

From friend's descriptions, Canvas has more abilities than SP 2.0, but I've
bought SP and like it and am used to the interface; 2.0 is adequate for my
needs.  Guess you'd say I'm a happy SuperPaint owner.  Charlie Jackson is
speaking at the local Mac user group meeting next week (showing SuperCard,
Digitial Darkroom and SP 2.0); I'll forward any promised features for later
versions of SP to this group (if he announces any).

                            MONDO VIDEO with Prof. Fred Hopkins:
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                                would say, `Stay tuned for THE MAKING OF
                                MICHAEL JACKSON'S MOONWALKER, followed by THE
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                                MOONWALKER.'"
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