Canvas 12 Forum

On my system, Canvas 12 is unresponsive to the keyboard and mouse. After clicking or typing a keyboard shortcut (e.g., control-F), nothing happens.

To recover, force-quitting CrossOver is necessary.

Under CrossOver 10.1.1, Canvas 12 functions mostly satisfactory with the following exceptions.

1. Help displays an empty window (instead, Help is designed to launch the Windows environment's default web browser because Canvas' Help is online rather than local).

2. The Docking Pane's tabs display improperly (cosmetic issue).

3. The Configuration Center does not function; clicking any of the options in its left pane does not display the corresponding options.

Dear CodeWeaver supporters,

I just attempted to get Canvas-12 to run on my Mac using CrossOver. In my case, the program failed to launch. However, I was only using the online trial version from ACDsee.

Could anyone explain to me how they were more successful in getting Canvas to work properly with CrossOver? Where they installing Canvas from a DVD instead of self-extracting installer? Any other tricks that a newcomer wouldn't know to try?

Thanks in advance for any help you might have.

Sincerely,

Edouard Lagache
Orinda, CA

P.S. Canvas is actually a very old Mac program dating to the early 1990s. It was ported to Windows and then sold to another company that stopped supporting the Mac version at the PowerPC/Intel transition. So there is a still a loyal following of Mac Canvas users. If CrossOver could be made to support with Canvas 12, it would help out a lot of Mac users who cannot upgrade to Lion over this matter.

Getting a bit desperate now that Apple have decided not to support Rossetta under Lion I have just installed Canvas 12 under a trial copy of CrossOver 10.2.0 under SnowLeopard 10.8. Basically it works OK. I used a full version of Canvas 12 that I had bought for a Windows-7 64 bit machine. I just pointed CrossOver at the exe install file and it seems to work OK.

A few comments:
There is a cosmetic issue with the text on the RH side of the screen.
Canvas Assistant doesn't work.
It is sometimes necessary to toggle the toolbox visibility to get it visible.
Fonts are limited - does CrossOver have a way to install new ones?
No access to to other volumes. I tried the CrossOver help pages but they assume more familiarity with what is needed than I had. A simple real example would help. I tried both aliases and shortcuts but neither are recognised by crossover.
Canvas 12 seems to have some bugs like Canvas X (and unlike Canvas 6).
The Canvas 12 interface has sub windows so if you are running an extended desktop (as I do) it doesn't work too well.
It's not blazzingly fast like it is under Windows 7
Launch time is a bit better than launching VM Fusion and then Canvas 12, but not a lot. VM Fusion gives you volume support, the ability to have more fonts.
Have not figured out how to print yet.
Sending postscript doesn't work, maybe I need to put a PPD file in the right place.
My printer uses gz files and CrossOver needs PPDs
The Wine postscript drive doesn't seem to do anything.

Nearly very good. I has not crashed once on me and I have been playing all afternoon.

Tony