epub%cariboo.bcc.cdn@ean.ubc.ca (Troy Welch) (04/30/88)
Thumbs up to the Designer package (for IBM.) I have worked fairly
extensively with Adobe Illustrator (pre '88 versions) on the Mac and by
comparison to Designer on the IBM it is like running in water up to
your neck. Designer not only accomplishes the same things in a simpler
and easier way, it also has an incredible variety of productive
goodies. At first glance, or in product reviews it is easy to dismiss
these goodies as bells and whistles, but a week or two of steady use
soon dispells this notion.
A couple of examples that come to mind are: attachment of any menu
command to the secondary mouse button, when drawing an object the
secondary mouse button will freeze and move the symbol and upon release
allow the continuation of the drawing, selection by attribute, object
ID for selection, libraries and recall, multiple drawing layers,
connect open and closed commands, a complete align command, a complete
rotation command, object snap...
No, I'm not a vendor or a sales rep, I spend my day in front of a
Moniterm producing documents. I have often been noted for my inability
to even draw a crooked line without a ruler and I have spent the last
week producing surprisingly (especially to me) beautiful diesel engine
diagrams. If any other Designer users out there have any tricks or
hints I'd be most interested in hearing them.
Troy Welch
Electronic Publishing Tech
Cariboo College
Kamloops, B.C., Canada
Cliche's of yesteryears: The check's in the mail.
Cliche's of today: We'll be shipping our 3.0 version in the first quarter of '88.
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