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From: humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0 troubles... (BUG?)
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Date: 28 May 89 00:48:23 GMT
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Hello. I'm having some problems with SuperPaint 2.0. I've been drawing
many detailed objects and I find that occasionally, SuperPaint shifts some
of the lines in the object a little bit between saves. For example, I might
have something that has a whole bunch of evenly spaced lines inside of a 
square. I save the document and come back the next day to find that now
the lines are off by one pixel. Sometime this problem compounds itself if I
don't fix the image- i.e. next time I look the lines are misaligned by 
another pixel. 

Strangely enough, this only happens with some of my objects - but often with
copies of one particular object. Some possible related weirdness relates to
the scrapbook/clipboard. I can paste "good" object to the scrapbook. Then 
when SuperPaint screws up my original, I've tried copying the "good" one
from the scrapbook. The paste from the scrapbook into SuperPaint looks just
like the screwy image all of a sudden. When I paste from the scrapbook into
Word, the object looks fine.
I've noticed a time or two that all of the objects look fine on the screen,
but when I print them, the objects on the printout are slightly shifted. I
look back at the screen and their OK. (The problem does not coincide with
printing, by the way). 
I've had to spend many hours correcting my objects after this happened (they
are somewhat detailed - a lot of "Group"s of smaller objects).
Am I just doing something stupid? Is there something else I should be doing
that I'm not? Is there something I shouldn't be doing? Is this a bug?

Please someone set me straight!

Please e-mail responses if possible as I can't usually keep up with the 
high traffic in this newsgroup...

Thanx!

Mark Frost
	Office of the the Computing Coordinator
	Humanities Division
	University of California at Santa Cruz
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