I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it.
I had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an external hard drive.
After backing them up and having no issues for years, I finally got rid of the original floppy disks
(partly because the Power PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone has it can they send it to me?
Thanks,
Jeff L
PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate folder, so I lost all that too.
Starting from scratch now. It's a great program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced graphic design software all these years.
jrl56 <jr...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it. I
> had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an
> external hard drive. After backing them up and having no issues for years,
> I finally got rid of the original floppy disks (partly because the Power
> PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and
> because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive
> crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found
> a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone
> has it can they send it to me?
> Thanks,
> Jeff L
> PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate
> folder, so I lost all that too. Starting from scratch now. It's a great
> program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced
> graphic design software all these years.
I can't find this anywhere either. Only 3.5.4. It's a shame how
companies can't be bothered at least putting up a page of old patches.
Shows a disregard for their customers and history.
BTW - a single copy on a hard drive is not a backup. It's just a single
vulnerable copy.
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
> > I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it. I
> > had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an
> > external hard drive. After backing them up and having no issues for years,
> > I finally got rid of the original floppy disks (partly because the Power
> > PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and
> > because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive
> > crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found
> > a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone
> > has it can they send it to me?
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff L
> > PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate
> > folder, so I lost all that too. Starting from scratch now. It's a great
> > program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced
> > graphic design software all these years.
> I can't find this anywhere either. Only 3.5.4. It's a shame how
> companies can't be bothered at least putting up a page of old patches.
> Shows a disregard for their customers and history.
> BTW - a single copy on a hard drive is not a backup. It's just a single
> vulnerable copy.
The company that bought up the rights to Canvas are particularly bad. Canvas started as a Mac only product that is now only available on the PC, and hasn't been supported on the Mac for 6 years or so. In addition, their file format is not compatible with most any other graphics program, meaning that if I were to switch, I would have to first convert hundreds of files to a different format in Canvas before I could edit them in another program. That is the only reason I keep an SL partition on my 2 Macs.
>>> I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it. I
>>> had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an
>>> external hard drive. After backing them up and having no issues for years,
>>> I finally got rid of the original floppy disks (partly because the Power
>>> PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and
>>> because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive
>>> crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found
>>> a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone
>>> has it can they send it to me?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeff L
>>> PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate
>>> folder, so I lost all that too. Starting from scratch now. It's a great
>>> program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced
>>> graphic design software all these years.
>> I can't find this anywhere either. Only 3.5.4. It's a shame how
>> companies can't be bothered at least putting up a page of old patches.
>> Shows a disregard for their customers and history.
>> BTW - a single copy on a hard drive is not a backup. It's just a single
>> vulnerable copy.
> The company that bought up the rights to Canvas are particularly bad.
> Canvas started as a Mac only product that is now only available on the
> PC, and hasn't been supported on the Mac for 6 years or so. In addition,
> their file format is not compatible with most any other graphics
> program, meaning that if I were to switch, I would have to first convert
> hundreds of files to a different format in Canvas before I could edit
> them in another program. That is the only reason I keep an SL partition
> on my 2 Macs.
You need to download Graphic Converter which is almost as full featured as Canvas. I used Canvas until it was discontinued.
> >>> I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it. I
> >>> had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an
> >>> external hard drive. After backing them up and having no issues for years,
> >>> I finally got rid of the original floppy disks (partly because the Power
> >>> PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and
> >>> because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive
> >>> crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found
> >>> a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone
> >>> has it can they send it to me?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Jeff L
> >>> PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate
> >>> folder, so I lost all that too. Starting from scratch now. It's a great
> >>> program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced
> >>> graphic design software all these years.
> >> I can't find this anywhere either. Only 3.5.4. It's a shame how
> >> companies can't be bothered at least putting up a page of old patches.
> >> Shows a disregard for their customers and history.
> >> BTW - a single copy on a hard drive is not a backup. It's just a single
> >> vulnerable copy.
> > The company that bought up the rights to Canvas are particularly bad.
> > Canvas started as a Mac only product that is now only available on the
> > PC, and hasn't been supported on the Mac for 6 years or so. In addition,
> > their file format is not compatible with most any other graphics
> > program, meaning that if I were to switch, I would have to first convert
> > hundreds of files to a different format in Canvas before I could edit
> > them in another program. That is the only reason I keep an SL partition
> > on my 2 Macs.
> You need to download Graphic Converter which is almost as full featured
> as Canvas. I used Canvas until it was discontinued.
I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
methinks.
Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
hit results, to say the least.
Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
>>>>> I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone has it. I
>>>>> had my Canvas installation disks and the updater file backed up on an
>>>>> external hard drive. After backing them up and having no issues for years,
>>>>> I finally got rid of the original floppy disks (partly because the Power
>>>>> PC Mac G4 I use the software on didn't have a floppy drive slot, and
>>>>> because I could install from the hard drive files). That hard drive
>>>>> crashed recently and I lost my only copy of my install software. I found
>>>>> a download of Canvas 3.5.4, but can't find the 3.5.6 Updater. If someone
>>>>> has it can they send it to me?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jeff L
>>>>> PS - Same drive had all my Canvas graphic design work saved in a separate
>>>>> folder, so I lost all that too. Starting from scratch now. It's a great
>>>>> program, I've never felt the need to switch to any other more advanced
>>>>> graphic design software all these years.
>>>> I can't find this anywhere either. Only 3.5.4. It's a shame how
>>>> companies can't be bothered at least putting up a page of old patches.
>>>> Shows a disregard for their customers and history.
>>>> BTW - a single copy on a hard drive is not a backup. It's just a single
>>>> vulnerable copy.
>>> The company that bought up the rights to Canvas are particularly bad.
>>> Canvas started as a Mac only product that is now only available on the
>>> PC, and hasn't been supported on the Mac for 6 years or so. In addition,
>>> their file format is not compatible with most any other graphics
>>> program, meaning that if I were to switch, I would have to first convert
>>> hundreds of files to a different format in Canvas before I could edit
>>> them in another program. That is the only reason I keep an SL partition
>>> on my 2 Macs.
>> You need to download Graphic Converter which is almost as full featured
>> as Canvas. I used Canvas until it was discontinued.
> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
> methinks.
> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
> hit results, to say the least.
Phillip Jones <pjones...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
[snip]
> > I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
> > Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
> > drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
> > excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
> > ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
> > bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
> > methinks.
> > Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
> > But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
> > seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
> > I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
> > hit results, to say the least.
> > Regards,
> > Jamie Kahn Genet
> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
No, never heard of it.
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
>> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> [snip]
>>> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
>>> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
>>> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
>>> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
>>> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
>>> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
>>> methinks.
>>> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
>>> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
>>> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
>>> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
>>> hit results, to say the least.
>>> Regards,
>>> Jamie Kahn Genet
>> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
> No, never heard of it.
Look it up. You can do all kinds publishing news letters etc.
> >> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
> >>> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
> >>> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
> >>> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
> >>> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
> >>> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
> >>> methinks.
> >>> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
> >>> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
> >>> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
> >>> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
> >>> hit results, to say the least.
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Jamie Kahn Genet
> >> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
> > No, never heard of it.
> Look it up. You can do all kinds publishing news letters etc.
> You can take a look at it free.
It's like Print Shop <http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html>? Looks
nice for what it does, but doesn't seem to offer anything over and above
Pages and AppleWorks. And if I wanted something easy and fun, not to
disparage other newer choices, I'd go for venerable old and familiar
Print Shop :-)
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
>>>> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
>>>>> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
>>>>> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
>>>>> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
>>>>> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
>>>>> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
>>>>> methinks.
>>>>> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
>>>>> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
>>>>> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
>>>>> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
>>>>> hit results, to say the least.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jamie Kahn Genet
>>>> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
>>> No, never heard of it.
>> Look it up. You can do all kinds publishing news letters etc.
>> You can take a look at it free.
> It's like Print Shop<http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html>? Looks
> nice for what it does, but doesn't seem to offer anything over and above
> Pages and AppleWorks. And if I wanted something easy and fun, not to
> disparage other newer choices, I'd go for venerable old and familiar
> Print Shop :-)
I used to have Print Shop but I have not heard a peep out them for years.
> >>>> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>>> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
> >>>>> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
> >>>>> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
> >>>>> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
> >>>>> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
> >>>>> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
> >>>>> methinks.
> >>>>> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
> >>>>> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
> >>>>> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
> >>>>> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
> >>>>> hit results, to say the least.
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Jamie Kahn Genet
> >>>> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
> >>> No, never heard of it.
> >> Look it up. You can do all kinds publishing news letters etc.
> >> You can take a look at it free.
> > It's like Print Shop<http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html>? Looks
> > nice for what it does, but doesn't seem to offer anything over and above
> > Pages and AppleWorks. And if I wanted something easy and fun, not to
> > disparage other newer choices, I'd go for venerable old and familiar
> > Print Shop :-)
> I used to have Print Shop but I have not heard a peep out them for years.
Still around, still works great. Over the years I've recommended Print
Shop to several clients wanting to create newsletters, cards and the
like, for whom AppleWorks and then Pages was overkill, nor as user
friendly for the complete novice, and had good results.
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
> > >>>> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > >>> [snip]
> > >>>>> I wouldn't say GraphicConverter matches up to Canvas in it's heyday.
> > >>>>> Canvas was special in that it combined easy to use and powerful vector
> > >>>>> drawing, bitmap graphics painting, and page layout tools all in one
> > >>>>> excellent package. I like GraphicConverter a lot, but I couldn't imagine
> > >>>>> ever trying to create a newsletter with lots of text and vector and
> > >>>>> bitmap graphics, all laid out nicely. That would be an exercise in pain,
> > >>>>> methinks.
> > >>>>> Nowadays I use AppleWorks and Pages for page layout including graphics.
> > >>>>> But if I had a way to run Canvas 3.5 well on my Intel iMac, that also
> > >>>>> seamlessly shared the clipboard with OSX, I would happily do so instead.
> > >>>>> I've tried classic Mac emulation several times, all with more miss than
> > >>>>> hit results, to say the least.
> > >>>>> Regards,
> > >>>>> Jamie Kahn Genet
> > >>>> Have you tried SwiftPublisher3 ?
> > >>> No, never heard of it.
> > >> Look it up. You can do all kinds publishing news letters etc.
> > >> You can take a look at it free.
> > > It's like Print Shop<http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html>? Looks
> > > nice for what it does, but doesn't seem to offer anything over and above
> > > Pages and AppleWorks. And if I wanted something easy and fun, not to
> > > disparage other newer choices, I'd go for venerable old and familiar
> > > Print Shop :-)
> > I used to have Print Shop but I have not heard a peep out them for years.
> Still around, still works great. Over the years I've recommended Print
> Shop to several clients wanting to create newsletters, cards and the
> like, for whom AppleWorks and then Pages was overkill, nor as user
> friendly for the complete novice, and had good results.
> --
> If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
Correct me if I'm wrong but AppleWorks, Pages & PrintShop are more
geared toward layouts and desktop publishing.
I don't know anything about Graphics Converter. The type of work I
was using Canvas for was to supplement my hobby,
which is scale modeling (trains, race cars, etc).
So I use the graphic design elements of Canvas to create waterslide
decal sets. The reason I've been sticking with Canvas 3.5.6,
is because I also have an Alps MD-5000 printer which is capable of
printing white ink for those decal sets. But that printer's last
effective print driver only works under Mac OS 9.2, so I have a Mac G4
that I've kept "suspended in time" with OS 9.2 and Canvas 3.5.6
on it to do that decal work.
The Mac, Canvas and the printer are all still fully operational. What
I lost was my only backup of the installation disks
for Canvas, (as I mentioned earlier, I destroyed my installation
floppies once I backed them up to a an external hard drive not on my
G4). The
reason I'm nervous about losing that backup and am looking for a copy
of the updater is because a couple years back,
my hard drive in the G4 failed and I had to replace it and reinstall
my software from the backup drive. Now I'm in the opposite situation,
the G4 is functioning but my backup failed. So if the G4 drive were to
fail again, I found a .sit file for Canvas 3.5.4 that I can reinstall
from, but
I don't have the 3.5.6 patch to get around the date issue in Canvas
3.5.4. If anybody out there has a copy of the .sit for Canvas 3.5.6,
could they send me a copy?
jrl56 <jr...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong but AppleWorks, Pages & PrintShop are more
> geared toward layouts and desktop publishing.
Correct.
> I don't know anything about Graphics Converter.
It wouldn't be a substitute for Canvas, as it's missing the desktop
publishing tools, as well as the higher end drawing ones.
GraphicConverter is best at converter graphics between a huge number of
formats, and making quick and simple edits, like crops, resizing, saving
to a lower file size, some simple simple drawing and painting, and a
number of image manipulations.
IME GraphicConverter is still handy to have around even with Canvas,
Photoshop, or the like, as it can handle a bunch of formats they cannot,
as well as being quicker and easier for a range of edits mentioned
above, especially the re-sizing and saving to a specific file size.
-- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
jrl56 wrote:
> I am looking for the Canvas 3.5.6 Updater .sit file, if someone
> has it.
That 3.5.6 updater, was only a patch file to fix a date time bomb that prevents using Canvas 3.5.x after the year 2004.
You can manually fix this time bomb yourself if you can use ResEdit.
As seen in the macintouch posts, the fix goes like this:
-----------------------------
Run ResEdit or Resourcer and open the Canvas 3.5.5 application. (resource fork)
Find the 'toly' resource with an id of 1011 and open it.
You should see hexadecimal values
'07D4 0008 001F 000C 001E 0000 0001'
Change it to
'07F7 000C 001F 000C 001E 0000 0001'
Close/Save the resource change.
Close/Save the resource file/fork.
Canvas 3.5.5 should now run without the warning for another 35 years!
-----------------------------
This apparently works with all 3.x versions of Canvas. YMMV.
