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Adobe Photoshop faces a new and worthy adversary in Canvas. After a poky installation comes a poky launch. You'll immediately see why it takes so long, though, when the program window opens. The sheer number of drawing, image-editing, and publishing features seems endless, too numerous to address in this limited space. Suffice it to say that whatever you can imagine doing to an image, you can do it with this software. Despite all the features, the software operates quickly and provides a welcoming interface. The only problem is that there are so many tools, you need to set your monitor to quite a high screen resolution to see them all. The scope and feature set mark Canvas as a tool for professionals.
Publisher's Description
From ACD Systems:
Canvas is the integrated application that speeds up and streamlines your technical illustration workflow. Professionals in high tech, complex environments that require accurate and powerful visualization of technical data rely on Canvas to facilitate collaboration and improve productivity. Experience Canvas 12, the preferred solution for technical illustration in precision industries such as; aerospace and automotive, biotechnology and healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, oil, gas and energy, and technology. Canvas' GIS+ module, included in this evaluation version, offers a powerful set of GIS-based tools and commands that support all leading GIS formats, define complex map projections, and perform advanced property operations. Canvas provides you with a single integrated software environment for technical illustration. With Canvas, you can work with both vector objects and raster images in the same document. And you have access to a larger range of enhancement tools for any kind of graphic, rather than being limited to certain enhancements on vector objects and others on raster images. As a Canvas user, you have the ultimate in flexibility, with the ability to import existing graphics from over a hundred different standard and specialized formats. Depending on your requirements and preferences, you can draw and edit either freehand or numerically for ultimate precision. Canvas also provides you with the ability to complete your workflow in one application, with its advanced text capabilities, as well as its set of tools for publishing, presenting and collaborating. In specialized workflows that require high level format support and sophisticated methods of data acquisition, visualization and analysis, Canvas has the crucial ability to accurately measure, edit, and export digital images that contain up to 32 bits per channel of data.
What's new in this version: Version 12 new features:
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All versions:
3.2 starsout of 17 votes
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Current version:
1.8 starsout of 5 votes
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Version: Canvas 12.00.1389
Pros
Non! Not good at all. See Cons.
Cons
This program is the most expensive I have ever seen. No hell way I am going to buy this. Trust me, it is hell expensive and bad!
Summary
DON'T BUY IT!
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"Does everything... not perfect, though"
Version: Canvas 12.00.1389
Pros
Does everything(dtp, graphics, 2d, 3d)
Formats support beyond anything out there
A true jack of tradesCons
format support isn't perfect, export formats aren't always perfect
Summary
A true graphic tool that's a jack of all trades, but a master at none. It's a relief to be able to open everything in one place, and if you have a format export problem, just export through a different format... this program can do that. Hard to be sure what this program should be doing though... besides everything.
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"Canvas 12 is irrelevant. Requiem for Canvas on Mac"
Version: Canvas 12.00.1389
Pros
None. It's gone.
Cons
Sadness at the loss of a great program.
Summary
Canvas on Mac was perfect. True some new features would have been nice but it did everything I needed and it did it with a minimum of fuss. I do both engineering drawing as well as image annotation and page layout. I need accurate snap-to guidelines, scaling, dimensioning, etc. etc.
I completely agree with wrbtu that there is nothing comparable currently. I've looked at everything I can find and tried demos of a few: Cadintosh, Intaglio, Lineform, and TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D. The latter comes close but lacks the simple elegance and some critical features.
I'd love to thank the authors of Canvas for Mac; maybe they'll see this and understand.
Meanwhile, I'll stick with Mac OS 10.6 and Canvas 8. -
"Best Object-Based Mac Drawing Program, Fails in Lion"
Version: Canvas 12.00.1389
Pros
No Pros for Mac Users. Unsupported, doesn't run in Lion
Cons
No version works on the latest Mac OS
Summary
This outstanding object-based drawing program was easy to use, bug-free, and full-featured. There is no substitute available in any other software for the Mac. It was the industrial version of MacDraw, but amazingly, in spite of its importance to scientists, engineers, artists, architects and others, it was abandoned for the Mac
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"No longer works on Mac"
Version: Canvas 12.00.1389
Pros
no pros for a Mac user
Cons
No longer works on Mac
Summary
This review is written to assist Mac users find a replacement for Canvas, which no longer works on the Mac platform.
I used Canvas from 1988 until they abandoned the Mac platform, & it had been my favorite program. Looking for a replacement wasn't easy, & finding a full replacement has been impossible. I've tried 7-8 different programs, but they were either too simplistic, too complicated, not intuitive in the least, feature-empty, or just plain poorly implemented.
VectorDesigner, in my opinion, & for my needs, is the best alternative available, & the only one that got past the trial/demo stage for me.
I design forms & simple one-page 8x10 posters (with text & graphics). Canvas was by far the best program for what I need to do. Now, I can get away with using NisusWriter Pro (a word processor), but it's not very good with graphics. VectorDesigner is better for graphics features, but is not very good with text. So I use both, depending on what I need to get done.
VectorDesigner costs only a fraction of what Canvas cost, so it's understandable that it does only a fraction of what Canvas used to do. I have hundreds of Canvas documents that I can't modify, can't print, can't "save as", but I keep them, because I can still open it using Mac OS 10.6, & copy from a Canvas document & paste it elsewhere.
And that, like it or not, is the best solution I've found.
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