Hi Bob, Fortunately, I have not used Adobe products so I'm not likely to have the expectations you mention. Up until now, my tools have been watercolor paints and pencils. :-)
I have about 48 state maps to create and all of them will be roughly the same. With 4.1, I've had some problems working with the layout. I couldn't change from portrait to landscape mode. Moving the legend around and customizing it was difficult. Also I couldn't open one of my saved layout files. Can't figure out what that was about??? I'm hoping that after I study the manual, do all the tutorials and dialogue with tech support, I will be able to solve all these problems. Thanks for your input! Carol --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
