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Canvas 8 - your experiances?

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MacTron:

--- Quote from: Mat on July 12, 2015, 02:33:55 PM ---Well, good that we agree about XPress 4 ;) Yes, Illustrator 10 is a Carbon application, but what´s wrong with CarbonLib?

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The use of CarbonLib dramatically slow down the apps that use it, specially drawing and text apps. So carbon apps should be avoided, unless you don't have any alternative.
Furthermore, as it adds a extra layer of complexity, it is prone to bugs.

The good point is that most routines in CarbonLib are multithreaded and dual CPU aware, but the prejudices are bigger than the benefits.  :'(

IIO:

--- Quote from: Mat on July 12, 2015, 02:33:55 PM ---About Adobe, I do not like the thousands of palettes.

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luckily flash or dreamweaver only have like 300 of those :P

GaryN:

--- Quote from: MacTron on July 12, 2015, 10:22:47 AM ---Deneba Canvas 3.5.6 is my Illustration App from the last two decades. From this version onwards, they only made an awfully bad Windows port.
If you really need a "top PRO app" Go for Adobe Illustrator 9 and forget about this one (and the Macromedia shit).

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I just fell across this posting and I have to ask:

Mactron, did you encounter a "drop dead" date in the old Deneba Canvas? One of the most aggravating experiences I've had with software was when my fully-legitimate-bought-and-paid-for Copy of Canvas 3.5 (which came on a whole boxful of 3.5" floppies) suddenly refused to boot one day and displayed a small box that said simply "Time Expired". Turns out they had actually written an expiration date into the startup routine to kill the software some 8 or 10 years (I can't be sure exactly how long) down the road after release. Talk about a "forced" upgrade path!

Of course, by the time this happened, Deneba was no more and ACD Systems couldn't care less that I just wanted to keep using 3.5 on OS9. So, for a few years, until I acquired Canvas 8, I used a Quickeys macro to: turn the date back on my Mac to before the expiration date, launch the app and then return the date. I actually still use that sometimes because Canvas 3 is far better suited to less complex drawings than Canvas 8.

Anybody else ever encounter this ridiculous situation?

MacTron:

--- Quote from: GaryN on December 18, 2015, 02:43:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: MacTron on July 12, 2015, 10:22:47 AM ---Deneba Canvas 3.5.6 is my Illustration App from the last two decades. From this version onwards, they only made an awfully bad Windows port.
If you really need a "top PRO app" Go for Adobe Illustrator 9 and forget about this one (and the Macromedia shit).

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I just fell across this posting and I have to ask:

Mactron, did you encounter a "drop dead" date in the old Deneba Canvas?

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Of course I do.

It was solved with a later upgrade, 3.5.5 I think.

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