Wow, try to see if you can find a drawing program and a couple of others so that you can leave Classic behind when moving up to Tiger. JUST NOT POSSIBLE.
I've tried several of the drawing programs I found here, and though this looks beautiful, it has much to be desired...
1. It crashes constantly when editing text objects. You have only 2 saves before the program self-destructs. (so don't save for long periods of time... ack!). And the text selection and key-combo manipulations are atrocious. And manipulating tabs is a total nightmare.
2. No help, local or on-line. It ONLY goes to a web-based manual, and that's broken, it just doesn't work.
3. Tried multilayer selection... unless there's a secret key comination, it's not possible, had to shift objects on multiple layers, one. layer. at. a. time.
4. Needs several obvious functions, though it has an abundance of features, a few basic things need to be addressed. (like showing the currently used color in an object, in the palette, so you don't have to remember the color codes, and then take stabs at which color it is).
5. Not internally consistent with a lot of the properties buttons in the toolbar, sometimes changing the x-width would change the object boundaries, other times it would scale the x-width, and it's completely random when it does this.
6. It doesn't keep oringal object dimensions accessible after scaling things, so if you mess up, you can never return the object (like text objects and bitmaps) to their original size or ppi/type-size, unless it's still in the undo queue.
7. and speaking of which, the undo function is inconsistent as well. Odd things end up being undoable, that don't need to, like changing layers, but other things that should be are not. Single pixel key-nudging is kept on a pixel by pixel basis, which means you kill your undo queue in no time, if you are trying to move an object into perfect posistion.
8. Many features are implemented cryptically. Common sense (and HiG) doesn't always dictate what you need to do when working with this program.

After all this, I bailed, and since it hasn't been updated or corrected since 2005, I'm guessing the company has completely given up on it (as mentioned in an earlier review).

I just find it so difficult to believe that nobody has a drawing program that works better than ClarisDraw under Classic. So I guess, unless work requires me to move up to Tiger, I'm staying comfortably at 10.4.10.

Having been orphaned by Canvas X, we have found that, at least for vector and page layout purposes, a combination of Intaglio and Pages works well.

For the Mac and PC. Canvas combines a powerful vector based draw program with a robust illustration program. It is fairly intuitve and unlike other vector draw programs has the ability to create architectural scale. There is no program like it on the market at this point. The drawback is that since its inception it has been very buggy. It was purchased from Deneba by ACD. They have done nothing with it other than letting it languish. There is, as of this writing, no indication from ACD that they will be coding it for the Macintel. It should be noted that ACD is a PC only company. They have refused to respond to any of the Mac users as to their future intentions for this program. It would be a shame if they let the Mac version die.

Versions 2.1 and 3.x were outstanding products. The interface was clear and fast. Everything worked as it should.

Now it seems all the good developers of Canvas are gone, and the company is full of Windows developers with no idea what is a good interface, and was is a really really bad one.

Unfortunately, each new version is worse than the previous one. I'm really glad I have kept version 2.1 that runs fine in Classic.

It is sad to say that the fantastic interfce of Canvas 3.5.4 on Mac has gone for ever.

Current versions like 9.04 have a Windoze-like awkward ugly and complicated anti-intuitive interface.

And the Canvas 3.5 files imported or open with Canvas 9.x have lots of flaws.

A shame.

I hope Deneba (now ADC Systems) addresses these serious issues once and for all.

Meanwhile we have been forced to switch to competitor applications.