In message <5287f4ede1riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As you are probably aware Artistic Lines is in the latest upgrade. > Martin demonstrated this nifty new feature at the Wakefield show > yesterday. I need ArtWorks to encompass as many art effects as possible > since most of my work is art and geometric based so the introduction of > Artistic lines is a plus point. I agree, the tool should have been in the original artworks 1. No fault of Martin who single handedly does a good job with limited resources > I felt AW was falling behind other commercial art packages in this respect. I currently use both Xara Designer Pro 7 and Serif Draw 5 and while Artworks GUI and tools are very old by comparison, I do find Artworks is my first choice for editing/tracing. It is still lacking in some basic requirements. > You can be sure that AW users influence what Martin adds to the package > and I suspect implementation depends how high up the feature list it is. How does that list work ? does the few who ask often get what they want? or is there a small straw poll and the easiest implemented? Would it not be fair if you buy the upgrade you then get a vote for next implementation . Then the features with the most votes gets implemented in the next release. providing of course it is reasonably viable. I have upgraded in the past just to keep Artworks going in the hope of something new I would find useful, despite not having a use for any of the new tools in that release and have not used to this day Nick k -- ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------