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[this is a bit old, but our news software got munged and all of our
postings for the past month or two have not gone out at all!]

Andrew Loewenstern writes
> In article <1992Dec4.194312.2890@tetrasoft.com> Joseph R. Grace  
<JGrace@TetraSoft.com> writes:

> >Check out Virtuoso!  I am no graphics design expert, so I can't
> >definitively compare it to what else is out there, but Virtuoso
> >is seriously *hot* :-),  
> 
> It's great unless you want to print under 3.0.  Then it makes the
> colors in embedded TIFF images psychedelic.  Sometimes I get the
> feeling that Altsys didn't do any external beta-testing.  Will anyone
> here who was a beta tester for Virtuoso be kind enough to raise your
> hand?
> 
> 
> Virtuoso is a pretty serious program though.  For most people though,
> Create is a much better alternative to AppsoftDraw than Illustrator or
> Virtuoso.

I got Email from Meaghan Hogan, the product manager for Virtuoso.  Altsys
doesn't have access yet to comp.sys.next.whatever, so she asked me to post
this for them.  Apparently they have found and fixed the color problems.

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:20:06 GMT-0500
From: altsys!mhogan@uunet.uu.net
To: glenn@rightbrain.com
Subject: Virtuoso 

Glenn:

Please post the following message for me. I really appreciate your help!

Meaghan 

Virtuoso was released as a NeXTSTEP 2.x app, and we didn't include any  
3.0-specific features besides pressure sensitive tablet support in the  
initial release. After shipping the product, we received feedback about the  
printing issue, and we have immediately responded by adding 3.0 color support  
to Virtuoso. We are currently testing this version, and we will notify all  
registered users when it is ready. 

With this feature now added, Virtuoso is ideal for NeXTSTEP 2 and 3 users.
Other 3.0-specific features will be added soon, but we do not have a definite  
release date for this version yet. 

Thanks for the feedback, and if you would like to send additional comments,  
you can also forward them to me directly: 
meaghan_hogan@altsys.com
214-680-2060
(fax) 214-680-0537

Meaghan
 
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