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osg@aeglos.hanse.de (Oliver Giessler) writes:
>  4. Grafics/ Layout

I use Lightning Paint as my paint package.  I don't have colour, and for a
B&W Mac Lightning Paint compares very well with commercial offerings.  It's a
useful adjunct to Hypercard for editing background art, and is particularly
good at allowing a "raw bits" approach.  Being a programmer, I tend to think
"Hmm, what I want to do is mask this with this, then transparent blit the
result over here and invert..."  Lightning Paint allows me to do those kinds
of things much more easily than any other paint package I've found.

I thought about commercial offerings like SuperPaint but decided against
them.  Basically, I edit everything except paint objects in ClarisWorks, so I
didn't need all the extra goodies in the big paint packages.  The other
advantage of Lightning Paint is that it's cheap; the price was so low I sent
more money than the author was requesting, as it wasn't worth my while to get
US$ in tiny amounts...

GIF Converter seems good, but it's expensive.  More expensive than Lightning
Paint, and all I use it for is converting from GIF to PICT and back.  I'll
probably toss it.

>  8. Utilities
>  8.1 Compression

I'm still trying to decide.  Something about Compact Pro annoys me, but I
can't quite work out what it is.  I thought maybe Stuffit Lite would be what
I was looking for, but Sit Lite fails dismally to display the dates on my
files.  (A list of date entries reading "1992-..." is *not* helpful.)  Also,
I'm not going to fork out money for Sit Lite unless I get the full version
*with encryption*.

I'm now wondering whether I should go for Autodoubler and Diskdoubler.  Now
that Salient have been bought by Fifth Generation, they seem to have decided
that they don't want to rip off UK users quite so badly.

>  8.2 Virus

Gatekeeper.  I don't like the "all in one" approach of Disinfectant; I like
to know exactly what I'm putting in my System folder and where it's going. 
Yes, I know *why* Disinfectant is "all in one", but I still don't like it
myself.

>  8.4 System extension

I thought Scroll2 would be exactly what I wanted, but it doesn't work with
ClarisWorks.  Damn.

SuperClock is a must.  The battery display feature is particularly neat on a
Powerbook.

>  8.5 Printing

I'm still looking for something that'll let me print to HP Laserjet *files*.


mathew
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