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ACD Canvas is a great graphics app. It combines the best elements of a vector, raster, and page layout software, into one unified environment. Once you get used to the different work-flow, it can really streamline all sorts of projects. That is, if you didn't have to waste so much friggin' time struggling with the buggiest UI ever! Take the palettes (toolboxes) for instance. There are a ton of them, and to save precious screen real-estate, the palettes can be "docked" as tabs to the right-hand side of the screen. But instead of making the palettes fly-out on mouse-over, you have to click them. And the palettes close up after you make a change to the properties. If you wanted to change the color of a shape three different times, you'd have to open the palette three times. But okay, that's not so bad, I can just tear the palette of the dock and use it, then put it back on the dock when I'm done, right? Well, sorta... when I redock the palette, the tab order is reset, so any layout in the dock that I've gotten used to is gone as soon as I redock the palette... I could just stack the palettes on the right side of the screen, right? Well, most of the palettes have a different width, and some are REALLY wide. So I'm eating up almost a fourth of the screen with the Attributes palette alone. Also, if you lock the palettes together by touching their borders, you can't unlock them! They stay stuck together, if you move one, you move the whole pile! The only way to unattach them is to close the palette, then dig around in the Window->Palettes menu to open it again. But wait, first you must move the palletes it was docked to, or it'll just dock to them again! Arrghh! >(
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