kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (12/04/88)
I got my upgrade at last. After installing it Friday AM at work, I opened it and got the new "Personalize Your Copy..." dialog box. Name and organi- zation were a cinch. Valid serial number was another story. The upgrade disks did not have serial numbers. You're supposed to look at the original disks (which were stored in a safe place 30 miles away). So I clicked OK thinking I wouldn't be able to run it today (although I had already trashed Canvas I). But the dialog box wouldn't let me quit. I never think of pulling down a menu, so maybe there was a way to quit that I didn't see, but it looked like I was going to have to reboot to get out of the dialog box. I tried calling Deneba's 800 number. After a long time ringing, there was some noise, then all went dead. Meanwhile I happened to remember that I might have written the serial number on the manual, which I did so I was able to proceed. The first thing I checked was the text handling bug to see if left justify was really that. It's fixed. Now when you press Return, all text lines up correctly on the left. In my playing around, I've been really impressed with what it can do. One of the problems we had here was trying to draw something like a pie chart. They attack this problem directly, although it works backwards to what the manual says. (After drawing the circle or oval, you hold down Command while selecting the arc tool. This makes a dot in the center of the circle and as soon as the cursor gets back to the window, a line extends out from that dot. You swing the line around to define the piece of "pie." According to the manual, you are opening up the circle and removing the piece. Actually all you have left is the piece you thought you were removing. So you have to work backwards. Swing the line around what you want to keep.) I'm real excited about the possibilities of this program, but as someone reported earlier, the SECOND time I tried to open it my 2 Mbyte Mac II didn't have enough memory. (The first time, when you're personalizing it, you get no hassle. I opened it with less than the 1500K it wanted. Has anyone called Deneba to see if you really need all of that memory? Looks like you need to work under Finder only with a minimum of 2 megs in your machine. Shirley Kehr