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   Canvas Returning to the Mac in 2014

   Josh Centers

   On its mailing list, [1]ACD Systems has announced that it is reviving
   Canvas, its technical drawing, pagination, and illustration app, for
   the Mac. ACD stopped making Canvas for the Mac in 2007. A beta of the
   resurrected program will be available in 'spring 2014.'

   'We have a lot to be excited about here. We know there are a lot of
   loyal Canvas Mac users out there, and we're looking forward to being
   part of their workflow again,' said Dallas Vandekerkhove, Director of
   International Business Development at ACD Systems.

   Canvas originated on the Macintosh in 1987, as part of the desktop
   publishing boom. It wasn't until version 3.5 in 1992 that it was ported
   to Windows, and the final version for the Mac was [2]Canvas X in 2005.

   Canvas is the latest professional application to return to the Mac
   after a long absence. Autodesk, Inc. brought AutoCAD back to the Mac in
   2011 after a seventeen-year absence.

   This news should be welcome for graphics professionals unhappy with
   Adobe's move to a subscription-only licensing model (see "[3]Creative
   Cloud Complaints Darken Adobe's View of the Future," 17 May 2013).

References

   1. http://www.acdsee.com/
   2. http://www.acdsee.com/en/support/canvas-10-mac
   3. http://tidbits.com/article/13765

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