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In message <ludwig02.131.000ADD78@fsrz1.rz.uni-passau.de> - ludwig02@fsrz1.rz.u
ni-passau.de (LUDWIG ANDREAS) writes:
:>
:>In article <319F59FB.3B1C@spg-net.com> Joel Krautheim <terminator@spg-net.com> writes:
:>>From: Joel Krautheim <terminator@spg-net.com>
:>>Subject: Re: ColorWorks  "What it  doesn't do " Not the Killer App !
:>>Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 10:27:23 -0700
:>
:>[...] 
:>
:>><snipped...working with the WPS>
:>
:>>Our users get involved with our products for a single purpose - they want 
:>>the most powerful image editing programs available. Your "beef" has 
:>>nothing to do with image editing at all. Opening a file into the program 
:>>with a drag-and-drop or a double-click, and printing with a drag-and-drop 
:>>to a printer object has absolutely ZERO to do with ColorWorks' power as 
:>>an image editor. These are convenience features at best, again they bring 
:>>absolutely nothing to bear on the quality of an edited image.
:>
:>>That said, we have been requested (stated in far nicer terms I might add) 
:>>by our users to add some WPS convenience features. We are a user-driven 
:>>company. We will be enhancing the WPS integration of our products in the 
:>>near future and making it available to our users.
:>
:>>Regards,
:>
:>>Joel @ SPG
:>
:>Come on, it's a bit ignorant, isn't it. I want to work with CW the same way I 
:>do with other applications. If you don't support it yet, OK - accepted. But 
:>one important advantage of OS/2 (among many others) is document centered 
:>working. I allways do so, never starting a program and then load a document. 
:>There are associations for certain documents and double clicking on it works 
:>perfectly. No need to know, where the program is located. You can start 
:>working an a file imediatly (<- ...sorry for my bad spelling I'm German).
:>Thats more than convenience, thats the way I work, and I dont want to change 
:>the way I work just because of software incababilities.
:>I'd love to see You supporting the OS/2 basics, and think it will be no 
:>problem for skillful programmers like You. 
:>
:>
:>Andreas
:>
:>
This is more like it. An OS/2 user who understandshow to use the power of
OS/2.

I dont want to be overcritical of CWorks, that was never my intention. As I
said, CWorks is simply brilliant as an image creator/editor. 
However the need to go back to the settings menu to change the effects of a 
tool is annoying.

1. A much better idea would have been to make  the  tools available as  
templates.Then you could drag and drop tools in the work area and apply the 
effects to the tools there.  e.g. If you were creating a graphic with say 
some areas filled green with lavaflow effect and other areas blue with no 
effect you would drag a copy from the tool template and apply the settings, 
then you would have the tool with settings intact always  available for use.
This could then be saved as part of the file. Similar to the way styles are
saved as part of a Word Processing  document. 
You would then double click on the file and  get your preset tools loaded 
with the file. 
Different types of graphics require different tools and a 
whole series of  files could be set up as templates for different 
types of projects, tool settings intact. This is the power of OS/2.

2. Integration with the WPS may not have much to do with the power of CWorks 
as a graphics program but it has everything to do with it's usability. I do 
not accept that " integration with the WPS is a convenience at best", but 
that WPS integration is a prerequisite for an OS/2 program.

3. CWorks seems to be completely ignorant of the WPS. As a desktop printer I 
use a HP Deskjet 850C with the latest Omni driver. I have the setting on the 
printer configured as : Quality - Presentation
			Dither Alogarithms - Stukki Diffusion

i.e. the highest quality available with the driver / printer combination.
CWorks continually over rides these settings back to the printer default and 
to get quality print I have to go and edit the Job Properties for every 
print run. These settings are not saved with the file. Surely basic stuff.

CWorks is no shareware program that you go and buy for $50 , but a commercial 
program. Every other commercial program I have purchased and most of the 
shareware one support the WPS and CWorks is by far the most expensive.

To be justly called " The Killer App." Cworks will have  to get these 
things fixed.

Peter Fox
Fox Quarries Pty. Ltd.	               
pjfox@om.com.au