Carol,
You say you're an artist. Do you use Adobe products (Illustrator and
Photoshop). If you do, you'll probably find Maptitude very un-
intuitive. It's mostly a graphical program, right? At least the
presentation is almost entirely graphial. As such, you kind of expect
it to respond to the same keyboard commands and shortcuts as
Photoshop. Like pressing the Z key for the zoom tool, and pressing
the Alt key to make the zoom tool a zoom out tool. Or pressing <ctrl>
P for print.
In Maptitdue there are no keyboard commands or shortcuts. It makes
everything take twice as long and 6 times as hard as it should.
Having a big monitor (22") helps; because there is no wysiwyg preview
mode, printing on large paper is a nightmare.
Bob
On 29 Jul 2005 at 15:55, carol121947 wrote:
> Hi R.,
> Thanks for the tip! This is a hard question to answer because
> everyone learns at a different speed, but do you think I will need a
> year's worth of tech support? It's about $100 extra beyond the cost
> of the upgrade. I think I get 3 months free so that might be enough.
> I am an artist by training and I am naturally visual so I think I may
> learn this fairly fast. I didn't learn much about the first version
> we bought. My husband mostly used it. I liked that you called this
> version "robust and intuitive". That's the first time I've heard
> anyone describe a softwars as "robust". :-) Carol
>
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