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	Unforutnately, I must agree.  SuperPaint 2.0 is quite disappointing.
We received our upgrade two weeks ago and I played with it the same night
that we received it.  The speed was quite slow.  Definitely slower than
MacDraw II, as far as the draw layer is concerned.
	The controls could definitely be improved.  I still am not used to
the fact that double clicking on some of the polygons causes them to be
drawn from the center while clicking on others brings up a dialog box.
(Now, if I click on this one...?)  The controls for items such as the
Bezier(sp?) curve settings suffer from some of the same problems I have
heard about Digital Darkroom, small controls, no readout thus making it
darn difficult to duplicate a previously used setting,...  I find the
Bezier curves difficult to control (all those little circles are too close
together :-)  ) especially on the zoom setting, it would be nice if they
adjusted the size of the control when you zoomed.
	The plug in tools are nice, but I would seriously disagree with
their idea of storing them in a folder in the Blessed Folder, what are
all the people with only floppies supposed to do?  This takes up additional
space on the system disk, which is already overcrowded and will not get any
better.
	The file operations are slooooowwwwwww!  Unbelievably slow!  With
just a simple painting, nothing in the draw layer even.
	It works on a Mac II in multiple bit screen depths now, but becomes
unbearably slow (no wonder they did not let us paint in color  :-)  )
Otherwise, it is nice on a Mac II in two color mode, about the only place
the program looks decent.  And yes, the color preview mode is a pain!
But like I said, drawing in color turned out to be horrendously slow, so they
probably did not want us to be doing much of that anyhow.

	All in all quite a disappointment.  Slow and buggy.  I would have
expected that the delay from last fall's expected release date would have
been to get the bugs out and the speed up, but evidently not.
	Buggy?  Why yes, it did not take me long to find bugs which primarily
involve the plug-in tools and screen depth on the Mac II.  Another case in
which it was assumed that no one could do anything behind your back to change
your environment, when they could.  (Try switching screen depth with
Switch-A-Roo while use a plug in tool, such as the 3-D box  :-)  I use a
macro to invoke it but I believe the simple function key combo will suffice.)
	Is anybody from Silicon Beach out there?

P.S.  I belive the multiple styles in text boxes is not as much their doing
	as the new StyledTextEdit from Apple in System 6.0, but then, what
	do I know?

						Robert Lentz
						These are merely MY opinions.


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