Canvas Mac is back as Canvas Draw

[robgendreau]

ACD Systems finally released Canvas Draw. It isn't quite the same (and I suppose that's both good and bad), but it's nice they finally brought it back to Mac OS.

http://www.canvasx.com/en/products/canvas-draw

 

[MAH11]

Back in the day, Canvas was a great program. I have ~15 years worth of scientific graphics in .cnv and .cvx formats, but no way to open them. I downloaded the demo and tried to open a few representative files. To my surprise, ~80% of them opened just fine. (One was really screwed up.) More interestingly, I was able to select everything in the Canvas file, copy it, then paste directly into a new Illustrator file. Not only did the transfer work, the images appear to be editable in Illustrator.

While there is no way that I am going back to Canvas (particularly after being burned so many times), I will probably buy Canvas Draw just for access to the dark past.

 

[robgendreau]

Back in the day, Canvas was a great program. I have ~15 years worth of scientific graphics in .cnv and .cvx formats, but no way to open them. I downloaded the demo and tried to open a few representative files. To my surprise, ~80% of them opened just fine. (One was really screwed up.) More interestingly, I was able to select everything in the Canvas file, copy it, then paste directly into a new Illustrator file. Not only did the transfer work, the images appear to be editable in Illustrator.

While there is no way that I am going back to Canvas (particularly after being burned so many times), I will probably buy Canvas Draw just for access to the dark past.

FYI, someone who used the scientific version in the past was pointing out that the font support for scientific characters, like even Greek letters, was lacking. Might want to check that in the demo before you purchase.

 

[MAH11]

FYI, someone who used the scientific version in the past was pointing out that the font support for scientific characters, like even Greek letters, was lacking. Might want to check that in the demo before you purchase.

Thanks. I did find some font issues when I checked out the demo, but I am mostly concerned about the drawings. I can type far faster than I can draw…