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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw II Problems
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Date: 24 Jun 88 20:51:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jun 24 15:51:00 1988


cosmos@druhi.ATT.COM(Ronald A. Guest) writes in comp.sys.mac

>We received our upgrade copy of MacDraw II yesterday and began trying it out
>today.  It appears to be severely handicapped on Macintosh IIs with Radius
>FPD displays.  The symptoms include only drawing part of a line on the
>screen.  If you draw a box, it only draws the top and left and sides, but
>not the bottom or right side.  If you zoom in or out, then the rest of the
>object is drawn and stays drawn if you go back to a 100% zoom.  But any
>newly added objects will appear messed up.  Completely horizontal lines
>often are drawn on the screen at all (even though they are there).  This
>problem does not occur on our SEs that have the Radius FPDs, nor does it
>occur on our Mac II with the Apple color monitor.  Claris doesn't seem to
>have tested this configuration (they apparently just tested SEs and
>Radiuses).  Has anyone else seen a problem like this on a Mac II with a
>Radius display?
>
	I do not know if this is the ENTIRE problem, but I believe that MacDraw II
requires you to use System 6.0 in order to run properly (why I don't know??).
You might try upgrading the systems and see if that works.
	Just a thought...

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