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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SuperPaint upgrade to UltraPaint -- questions
Keywords: SuperPaint Silicon Beach UltraPaint Deneba
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Date: 4 Jan 90 18:19:13 GMT
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I've been using SuperPaint 2.0 since it was released -- upgraded from 1.1 --
and I've generally had the same frustrations that others have had with it.
Mainly the speed (I'm running it on an SE/30), even for relatively simple
artwork, and other things.  Someone in our office has Deneba's Canvas, and
after playing with that, I figured *that's* the product I would have bought
instead of SuperPaint if I'd had the chance.  Deneba's had several upgrade
offers ($$ + MacDraw disk == Canvas), but none for SuperPaint, and thus I
haven't had the chance to update.

However... just got the February issue of MacWorld, and Deneba has a new
program out called UltraPaint.  Looks very nice from the ad (B&W, grey scale
and full color pixel manipulations, 8 independent object-oriented layers,
scanned image manipulation, basic drawing tools plus auto-trace, bezier and
freehand curves with "complete editing control", editable arrowheads &
dashed lines, 256 colors per drawing, WYSIWYG text (wonder if that includes
rotating text with full precision?) and 600 dpi precision, import/export
filters for PICT 1 or 2, TIFF, MacPaint, Startup Screen or MacDraw 1
formats.  Apparently also has the SuperPaint feature for adding new tools to
the program by putting the tools in a folder.  (Can't remember what Silicon
Beach calls that...)  Lists for $199.  I seem to remember an issue of
MacWeek that discussed it, but haven't run into my back issues yet...

And Deneba will upgrade you to UltraPaint for $50 and your SuperPaint
1.1/2.0 disk.  (Hey, think of all those people who got SuperPaint 1.1 free
with MS Word...)  With the quality of Canvas, I'm almost ready to do this
sight unseen of UltraPaint; but having a few gray cells still functioning, I
thought I'd ask people on the net if they've tried UltraPaint, what they
think, how does it compare with Canvas (is this a companion program, a
sub/super-set, or what?), and (most importantly) how fast is it?

Thanks in advance...

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