ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) (10/06/85)
Silicon Beach Software makes a nice set of utilities for the Macintosh called Accessory Pak1. That set includes the program paintcutter which works with full screen MacPaint documents. The program has worked for the numerous applications on which I have tried it. It does support saving full page pictures to the clipboard for transmittal to other programs. Accessory Pak1 includes some other nice, although smaller utilities, such as a screen saver and quick disk eject ( no longer needed with the Finder 4.1 shutdown command). I have no connection with Silicon Beach Software.
briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm) (10/11/85)
In article <142@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes: >Silicon Beach Software makes a nice set of utilities for the Macintosh called >Accessory Pak1. That set includes the program paintcutter which works with >full screen MacPaint documents. The program has worked for the numerous >applications on which I have tried it. It does support saving full page >pictures to the clipboard for transmittal to other programs. Accessory Pak1 >includes some other nice, although smaller utilities, such as a screen saver >and quick disk eject ( no longer needed with the Finder 4.1 shutdown command). >I have no connection with Silicon Beach Software. I have found that PaintCutter is good and works as advertised. However, it is just about the ONLY thing in Accessory Pak 1 that is worthwhile: if you buy it be sure that PaintCutter makes it worthwhile! It does for me. Two other items are marginally useful, a coordinates DA and a rulers DA that puts up MacDraw type rulers in MacPaint. While both sound useful, especially the latter, I find that I don't use them at all. The screensaver program is nifty in that it shuts off the screen after a pre- determined amount of "inactive time." You select the amount of time. It is built into the system, so there is no easy way to defeat it once installed. HOWEVER, it determines "inactive time" as NO MOUSE ACTIVITY!!! This means that if you are trying to print a long document, for example, every n minutes you will need to click the mouse or the screen locks up and printing stops! The Silicon Beach font is nice, if you collect fonts, but precisely as useful as Chicago (it is an "always bold" font like Chicago). As mentioned, the shutdown DA isn't needed any more. They also give you the new Font/DA Mover, but you have that already, don't you? I am NOT saying Accessory Pak isn't worth it - PaintCutter alone definitely IS. I'm just saying don't expect just all sorts of useful gizmos with it. -Brian Diehm Tektronix, Inc. (which corporation doesn't DO product reviews, so don't take all this as official Tektronix pronouncement!)