lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey) (01/30/88)
Has anyone had any experience with Canvas? Is it good, not only for art-work but also for technical diagrams? I note that it has macros. Do these make it easy to set up graph axes and things like that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Hamey Computer Science Dept. lgh@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University <Substitute your favourite disclaimer here> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Hamey Computer Science Dept. lgh@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University <Substitute your favourite disclaimer here>
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;YF37) (01/31/88)
In article <764@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lgh@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Leonard Hamey) writes: > >Has anyone had any experience with Canvas? Is it good, not only for art-work >but also for technical diagrams? I note that it has macros. Do these make it >easy to set up graph axes and things like that? I've used Canvas for a while now, and I like it. I've used it for technical diagrams, mixing both bitmap and object-oriented pictures. I really like the variable expand/shrink feature that lets you work at any expansion/shrinkage factor. It does work on a Mac II and does support the original 8 Macintosh colors. I've use the macro capability a bit, only to save something I use alot. I don't know about using them for graph axes, unless they are all the same, or at least scaleable. Canvas is not with problems, though. Switching between object-oriented and bitmap is a little tedious, and while working on a bitmap image, it seems to switch back to object-oriented mode somewhat unpredictably. The version I have (1.02, I think) has some bugs, but hopefully they'll be fixed in the next version. Edward Moy Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy