Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs3b3aj
From: cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Graphing Software
Summary: good report on Harvard Graphics V2.11
Message-ID: <2373@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 8 Apr 89 06:27:43 GMT
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Reply-To: cs3b3aj@maccs.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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   I learned to use Harvard Graphics at my summer job in 1988.  I found it
very easy to use with a keyboard (I didn't have the opportunity to try it
out with a mouse).  I have only a couple of complaints about it:

- It does not allow items on screen to be rotated or reflected.  As far as
  I am concerned, this is a fairly major drawback.

- The fonts are also imperfect.  Three of the six (Roman, Gothic and Script)
  can only be used for fairly small lettering, as areas which are supposed
  to be solid are, in fact, just three lines (two as boundaries and one to
  provide some sort of filler).  Therefore, if you blow them up large
  enough (just how big depends on your output device), they look pretty
  cheap.  Also, some combinations of attributes for some fonts are not
  supported (of course, some of these, like Gothic Italic, make no sense
  anyway).  Third font problem:  the inability to mix fonts on one graph.

   Other than these, I give Harvard two thumbs up.

Hope this helps.

Regards
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