[X Newbies] Graphics software

[David Flory]

> In an earlier age, when I had a Performa, I had both Quark and  
> Photoshop that someone installed for me. Years later, I have an iMac  
> running Jaguar, and I'd like to get back into photo manipulation and  
> page layout. Does anyone know where I can get either of those  
> programs, or reasonably similar ones, without paying an arm and a leg?

As others have already suggested, Graphic Converter is one of the best  
programs available for handling pictures. Forget Quarck, their support  
for the Mac sucks. There are a lot of good competing programs, just  
search Version Tracker for Web Design or Page layout. My personal pick  
is Canvas 8, it does photo stuff too. It's not cheap but it is pretty  
much an all purpose graphics program, does bitmap/paint stuff, vector  
graphics, page layout, etc, etc. Since it can take the place of several  
different specialized programs its price becomes pretty reasonable.   
I've used it since way back to version two. Oh yeah it also does scale  
drawings and dimensioning, CAD like stuff. I first started doing to do  
office setups using scale images of desks, chairs, etc. Our unit was  
able to move to another part of our building in one 8 hour day, other  
units took several days. The difference was the exact scale layouts we  
worked to.
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