Drawing on special effects: Cricket Draw for the Macintosh makes it easy to do Postscript tricks

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Cricket Draw is an innovative software package, from Cricket Software, that takes full advantage of Postscript, the page-description language included in Apple's Laserwriter. Cricket Draw provides simple and convenient ways, using icons and menus, to produce various special effects such as angled text, so that a user with a Mac Plus or a 512Kbyte Mac can produce impressive graphics that can be incorporated into documents that are made by using Macwrite or Ready Set Go 3.0; the program's maker claims that the software will also work with Pagemaker 2.0 and Microsoft Word 3.0. An ability to make lines or text follow free-form shapes or curves is one of the program's impressive strengths; the program also adds new capabilities to a MacDraw-like tool kit. Cricket Draw, which is said to be easy to learn and to use, costs $295. It comes with understandable, well-structured documentation.

Laser printers, Computer graphics, Laser Printer, Cricket Software Inc., CA-Cricket Draw (Computer graphics software)

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Paint and draw

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Deneba Systems's $195 Canvas 1.02M is a graphics software package for the Macintosh that lets users created an unlimited library of objects that can later be selected from a menu. Objects can be manipulated with freedom since they can be reverted to their original design without having to reload the whole file again. Canvas offers bit mapped graphics paint tools as well as object-oriented ones, more than most other paint programs. A desk accessory version of Canvas is available for $99.95 and is included in the main package. It lacks the objects library, the Revert command, and the rotation command, but provides the convenience of bringing the program up within any application. There are bugs in the current version which Deneba claims will be fixed in version 2.0, to be given free to all registered users.

Product information, Deneba Systems, Canvas (Paint software)

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Chart processing with More

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More 1.1 ($295), an outliner and idea organizer from Living Videotext, can be useful to desktop publishers as a publishing aid. Elements of an outline can be shuffled into a hierarchical format and can be converted, from there, into a bullet or tree chart; then, a More chart can be pasted into a word processor or a page layout as an illustration. Moreover, tree charts can be refined in their appearance; procedures are detailed. The program is called 'handy'; it has graphics limitations, but the ability to export a chart to Macdraw is a balancing plus.

Program Editor, Text editors, Symantec Corp. Living Videotext Inc., More 1.1 (Presentation software)

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