Canvas 7.0 Coming To Linux!

Rockhead writes: "Just saw this over at MacWeek. It looks like Deneba will be porting Canvas, their graphics, layout and kitchen-sink program, to Linux. The free beta is expected on the Deneba Web site early next month. Whoopee!" Let's hope that the release of free-beer proprietary vector programs spurs, rather than impedes, progress on KIllustrator and Sketch, both of which look great but incomplete at this point, but hold great promise in expanding Linux's meager selection of vector-drawing tools. Canvas also has some page-layout abilities -- looks like Deneba is seeing Adobe's free FrameMaker download for Linux, and raising.

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Top 5 things Linux needs to be ported to

[Anonymous Coward]

5. My cassette player
4. My stove, coffee machine, laundry machine
3. That darn humidifier. Imagine my crontab entry:
0 0,8,16 * * * /usr/bin/rsh humid -c /usr/local/bin/recharge -h 2 -o
2. My mug: /bin/more coffee.hot

and finally

1. My african violet:
while ($stillAlive){
open MY,"courtain" if (time() > "8:00am");
mkdir "upward";
foreach $sisterPlant (@nearby){

};
++$flowers;
$grow++;
}

Re:Free for linux but not for Windows/Mac?

[Analog]

You're missing the point. They're giving it away on Linux to build market share on that platform.

Say Linux goes on to explode on the desktop the way it has on the server market. When Joe graphics artist leaves Windows behind and goes to ask his Linux using buddy what graphics program he recommends, his buddy will tell him he uses Canvas (which he got for free several months ago) and it's awesome. So Joe goes to pick up Canvas, which is now $375. Also, when Joe's buddy goes to upgrade, he will most likely stick with Canvas, the program he knows, and pick up the new version at the upgrade price. So one copy of the program given away early on can translate into several copies sold down the road (or so goes the theory).

It's actually a very common strategy, and often quite successful. Whether it will be successful on Linux where there may be several 'good enough' free competitors will be interesting to see.

wrong department

[imac.usr]

> from the gimme-some-vectors-victor dept.

To pick at nits, the actual quote is "What's our Vector, Victor?"

(Oh how I love that movie. I pray nightly for Paramount to release a 20th anniversary DVD edition.)

To remain semi-on-topic: I support a couple of Mac Canvas users at my job (version 3.5 and 5 only, as NHLBI decided not to spring for the upgrade to 7). It's a fairly decent example of the genre, and bringing it to Linux represents a Good Thing.

"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"