mike@thumper.UUCP (03/10/87)
I really hate the way patterns are used to do linestyles in Macdraw. This
scheme doesn't even work all that well with an Imagewriter, and with the
Laserwriter it's worse than useless and unbelievably ugly.
I really think what people really want are dashed lines and arcs, not bad
approximations, which is about all that's possible now. Postscript is
certainly capable of defining all the linestyles one could want.
Is there any hope that Macdraw will ever support such things? I love that
program but it seems to be getting worse, not better. I suppose I should
just go out and buy one of these Postscript-based drawing programs.
Even solutions that used to work (using the various grids and checkerboards
to get dashed lines on the Imagewriter, at least as long as the lines were
horizontal or vertical) fail miserably on the Laserwriter, and what's worse,
you don't know until you print it out how awful it'll look.
Anybody else have any suggestions? I suppose I could edit the
Postscript manually, but that's kind of awful.
Mike Caplinger
mike@bellcore.com
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