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Re: IconBuilder: A [harsh] commentary - was Re: Icon, or equivalent under 3.0

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From: Brian
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:40
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In article <2AEC306E.74E3@deneva.sdd.trw.com> kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert  
Kieffer) writes:
> 
> Having more or less mastered "Icon" under 2.1 I am flabbergasted at what  
> NeXT is trying to foist off on us for an icon builder under 3.0!  With  
> such fertile ground created by Keith Ohlfs, you'd expect that they could  
> at least get within an order of magnitude of what Icon had to offer.
> 

I have to strongly agree here that in simplest terms, IconBuilder sucks  
compared to Icon.  Fortunately for me, we still have a couple of machines  
that we have not yet upgraded to 3.0, so I can do all my image  
manipulations under 2.0.  I am extremely disappointed with IconBuilder.

brian
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Subject: Re: IconBuilder: A [harsh] commentary - was Re: Icon, or equivalent under 3.0
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