ewhac@well.sf.ca.us (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (08/07/90)
[ "I must warn you, sir, that anything you say will be ignored." ]
I didn't want to say any more about the program until it had
actually hit a shelf somewhere. Well, at long last, it has. Mitch Lopes
informs me that HT Electronics in Sunnyvale, CA, has already sold out of
their six copies. So now that Actual People are starting to get the thing
into their hands, I thought I should inform you of a few sinkholes I know
about.
If you attempt to load DPaint ANIM brush into Ink-&-Paint, it will
crash. We didn't have the specs on ANIM brush format at the time, and
I thought an ANIM brush was a sufficiently screwy thing that it would be a
non-issue. Well, surprise, Dan Silva made ANIM brushes look almost exactly
like ordinary op-5 ANIM files, and it's similar enough that Ink-&-Paint (and
probably Pencil-Test, too) dies. Sorry 'bout dat.
If you select a page size that is larger than the editing screen
(such as 352 * 220 for overscan), you move around the page by holding down
the SHIFT key and hitting the arrow keys. This feature got left out of the
documentation. (Arguably my fault; I didn't put it in the help requester.)
In the copy I received, I noted a curious problem in the manuals.
If you read page 5-11 in the Getting Started manual, and then move to page
5-12, you'll note that it doesn't seem to logically follow. If you do
precisely the same thing in the User's Guide, it will be more obvious.
Evidently, pages 5-12 and 5-13 got swapped between the two manuals. Pages
5-12 and 5-13 in the User's Guide should actually be in the Getting Started
manual, and vice versa. Based on the context of the material, I can see how
this might have been overlooked. I don't know if this happened to all the
copies.
Anyway, for those of you who purchased the program, I hope this
helps. And I hope you like the program, too.
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