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Re: Any feedback yet?
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John Kramar
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Jun 15, 2005 10:05 PDT
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Hi All,
I've been feeding my findings and recommendations to Annie. Because
I'm running Acrylic on a G4 and a G5 Mac via MS VirtualPC running
WinXP-Pro SP 2 I was afraid some of my findings wouldn't be directly
applicable to others. (This combination works very well.) Annie
found out that as long as it was on WinXP SP 2 the lead developer was
interested. Annie's responses to my findings have been very useful.
By now I am over "Oh no not another user interface!" phase with the
new features and am getting into the pixel part more.
I think that Acrylic is an extremely useful application for creative
artists with its combination of vector and pixel capabilities.
Just about everything that I tried works well.
I am going to use Acrylic as my main 2D art creating application even
though I am far from familiar with all its capabilities. I would
love to see one or more courses on Acrylic's post Expression features.
I am definitely going to purchase the finalized program.
I found the Acrylic photo stitching to be obviously superior to
Photoshop CS in the one case I tried.
I like the small sensible set of pixel brushes (versus Painter-IXs
bewildering warehouse of brushes)
I have had two instances where Acrylic went haywire and turned all
its icon/headers mauve as well as the WinXP icons. Both of those
were automatically reported to MS.
My Acrylic wish list:
• Fast pixel drawing (right now it's as bad as Painter-8 was) this is
probably compounded by the two operating systems and an Intel
emulator (VPC) that I need to run the Acrylic beta.
• Layers that can:
a. have their opacity varied individually
b. be duplicated individually
c. have Acrylic's Variations applied to previously created
vector objects
d. be selectively collapsed
• A master floating savable project palette that has:
a. a vector-pixel switch
b. selected tools for the project at hand
c. buttons for the opening the other palettes
These two issues are probably MS VPC/WinXP, not Acrylic
1. Keypad # keys are not recognized. Typing in #s can only be done
on the main keyboard # keys,
2. Lack of response to stylus pressure via WACOM tablet whose driver
won't load in WinXP -- WACOM sys tough luck they don't support apps
on VPC:
Hi John,
We do not support Microsoft programs or PC drivers on a Mac.
The program and our drivers work fine on a PC and we don't currently
have
any plans to support it through Virtual PC.
Sorry about that.
Dustin Fulwiler
Wacom Technical Support
(I was able to load the WACOM Driver on my G4 667 MHz PowerBook/OS
10.3.9/VPC-7/WinXP-Pro SP2/Acrylic-beta-build 684 and Acrylic still
did not respond to changes in stylus pressure. I have no other
graphic apps on Windows were I could use the stylus pressure.)
On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Annie Ford wrote:
Hi All,
Now that you've had a change to install Acrylic and play with it, do you
have any comments you'd like to share?
Annie
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<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've been feeding my findings and recommendations to Annie. Because I'm running Acrylic on a G4 and a G5 Mac via MS VirtualPC running WinXP-Pro SP 2 I was afraid some of my findings wouldn't be directly applicable to others. (This combination works very well.) Annie found out that as long as it was on WinXP SP 2 the lead developer was interested. Annie's responses to my findings have been very useful.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>By now I am over "Oh no not another user interface!" phase with the new features and am getting into the pixel part more.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think that Acrylic is an extremely useful application for creative artists with its combination of vector and pixel capabilities.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just about everything that I tried works well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am going to use Acrylic as my main 2D art creating application even though I am far from familiar with all its capabilities. I would love to see one or more courses on Acrylic's post Expression features.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am definitely going to purchase the finalized program.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I found the Acrylic photo stitching to be obviously superior to Photoshop CS in the one case I tried.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I like the small sensible set of pixel brushes (versus Painter-IXs bewildering warehouse of brushes)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have had two instances where Acrylic went haywire and turned all its icon/headers mauve as well as the WinXP icons. Both of those were automatically reported to MS.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My Acrylic wish list:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>• Fast pixel drawing (right now it's as bad as Painter-8 was) this is probably compounded by the two operating systems and an Intel emulator (VPC) that I need to run the Acrylic beta.</DIV><DIV>• Layers that can: </DIV><DIV> a. have their opacity varied individually</DIV><DIV> b. be duplicated individually</DIV><DIV> c. have Acrylic's Variations applied to previously created vector objects</DIV><DIV> d. be selectively collapsed</DIV><DIV>• A master floating savable project palette that has:</DIV><DIV> a. a vector-pixel switch</DIV><DIV> b. selected tools for the project at hand</DIV><DIV> c. buttons for the opening the other palettes</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>These two issues are probably MS VPC/WinXP, not Acrylic</DIV><DIV>1. Keypad # keys are not recognized. Typing in #s can only be done on the main keyboard # keys,</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>2. Lack of response to stylus pressure via WACOM tablet whose driver won't load in WinXP -- WACOM sys tough luck they don't support apps on VPC:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><I>Hi John,</I></DIV><DIV><I><BR></I></DIV><DIV><I>We do not support Microsoft programs or PC drivers on a Mac.</I></DIV><DIV><I>The program and our drivers work fine on a PC and we don't currently have</I></DIV><DIV><I>any plans to support it through Virtual PC.</I></DIV><DIV><I>Sorry about that.</I></DIV><DIV><I><BR></I></DIV><DIV><I>Dustin Fulwiler</I></DIV><DIV><I>Wacom Technical Support</I></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>(I was able to load the WACOM Driver on my G4 667 MHz PowerBook/OS 10.3.9/VPC-7/WinXP-Pro SP2/Acrylic-beta-build 684 and Acrylic still did not respond to changes in stylus pressure. I have no other graphic apps on Windows were I could use the stylus pressure.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Annie Ford wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV>Hi All,</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Now that you've had a change to install Acrylic and play with it, do you </DIV><DIV>have any comments you'd like to share?</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Annie</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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