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In article <26695@dhw68k.cts.com> thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes:
<  SuperPaint 2.0's 'PICT' format doesn't seem to be quite standard. I also
<experienced quite a few crashes-while-saving, usually with files that had
<a number of grouped objects in the Draw layer (between 20 and 50 individual
<objects).
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<  Needless to say, I don't use SuperPaint 2.0. Are other people experiencing
<similar crashes? I haven't heard anything on the net to indicate this is a
<quality-assurance blowit of Word 3 proportions, although if our experience
<is typical, it would sure seem that way!
 
I don't have the crashes, but there are other problems with SuperPaint 
drawings in Word 4.0. Don't even think of taking a SuperPaint drawing
from  Word 4.0 back to SuperPaint to change it. (I know, there is supposed
to be some kind of linking between the two, but I just haven't explored
that feature yet.)

When you get the drawing (from Word 4.0) into SuperPaint, even though it 
had been grouped, the pieces are now widely scattered. When you ungroup
it to work on it, you may find some of the pieces missing until you assign
a larger drawing size. If you haven't given SuperPaint more than its default
700K to work with, you can't even do that.

But if you persist in putting the pieces back together and import the 
drawing back into Word, you'll find that some invisible parts (beyond Word's
dotted outline) cover up remaining text on the page. It displays but does
not print. 

Sometimes, you can make a new drawing from scratch; sometimes, if you keep
the original SuperPaint drawings, you can modify those and paste them over
the old drawing. Sometimes nothing works. I had to go to another drawing
program in one case. I made five drawings, reinstalled SuperPaint, and did
everything else I could think of to no avail. All I could do was use
another drawing program to get remaining text on the page to print.

The kinds of drawings I do are very simple, but they make heavy use of
text, and they require some of the text to be white on black backgrounds.
I like the feel of SuperPaint better than any other program because you
can see the object you're moving around, not just some outline. I tried
MacDraw II for some more complicated drawings that required rotated objects
and found that it doesn't seem to have any tools or commands to stretch
or freely rotate objects (to give it some perspective).

I wish the problems could be solved, but so far I haven't really complained
to anyone either. Where would you start - Microsoft or Silicon Beach (or
both)?

Shirley Kehr