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Product: DEGAS
Developer: Batteries Included
Address: 17875 Sky Park North, Suite P, Irvine, CA 92714
Phone: (416) 881-9816
Price: Discounted to $23 (MRSP unknown)

Probably everyone has heard of DEGAS by now and there have been
several reviews in magazines. Frankly, it is $23 (or so) well
spent. The human interface is well designed and it appears to be
quite a capable paint program.

Since I am not an artist, I'm not really qualified to comment on
its suitability for art, but the demo pictures are really quite nice.
It IS, however, a good tool for viewgraph preparation. As a frustrated
typographer, it's fun to create a new font with the font editor and
try it out in a graphic design. I was a little disappointed in the
quality of the fonts provided (I am working on a Futura-like font)
and the 8H x 16V fixed character format is a serious restriction.
The magnify feature is good for touching-up large display text.
The EPSON print driver works OK with our Panasonic 1092 with good
results. (Running the dot matrix output through a Xerox copier
tends to integrating the jaggies and reduces "blockiness.")

DEGAS is easy to learn and has a good user's manual. Give this
one 3.5 stars.
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paul drongowski				decvax!cwruecmp!pjd
case western reserve university		pjd%Case@CSNet-relay