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- From: Michael <76004.1676@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: PageStream 3.0i ETA
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 16:42:54 GMT
- Organization: Soft-Logik
- Message-ID: <4crhie$6q$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com>
-
- PageStream 3.0i progress: we are obviously rather far behind
- schedule on this. Slipping past the WOA Toronto show date had rather
- serious consequences for our development schedule. We really wanted
- to get it done by then because we knew that with some upcoming
- holidays for our staff, slipping one or two weeks really meant
- slipping several weeks.
-
- I don't have a solid estimate of when it will be released. This
- doesn't mean it's months away, but that it's hard to estimate the
- time required for a couple of thorny problems. But since everybody
- keeps asking when it will be done, I will tell you that our current
- in-house goal is January 26th. Please don't hold us to this date.
- I'm just telling you this so you don't check online everyday for a
- new patch file. It definitely won't be earlier than the week of Jan
- 22-26th.
-
- We asked our GEnie customers a while back if any of them with the
- Epson Stylus Color series printers would like to test the new driver
- before it was released. (We're adding a Stylus Color driver in 3.0i,
- and we'd like it to get a bit wider testing than our betatesters can
- provide.) However, we have to give these people the entire 3.0i beta
- because the new driver isn't compatible with 3.0h2. Because I have
- to put together a special beta package anyway for these volunteers,
- I asked the boss if I could offer the beta to other PageStream3
- owners, seeing as 3.0i was kind of overdue. He agreed and extra
- testing is always welcome, so...
-
- If anybody who is a =registered owner= of PageStream3 would like to
- try the 3.0i beta, please send me =email=. The email =must= include
- your registration number and name. You must use CompuServe, GEnie or
- the Soft-Logik BBS to receive the beta. Sorry, no FTP, uuencoded
- email, etc. All requests for the beta received before 1200CST
- January 8th will receive the beta on January 8th. Requests received
- after then but before 1200CST January 12th will receive the beta on
- January 12th. No requests after January 12th please.
-
- Caveat #1: the beta does not come with an installer. You must move
- the files to the correct directories yourself.
-
- Caveat #2: the beta includes only files new since 3.0h2. You must
- have 3.0h2 installed and you must install the beta files on top of
- it. You won't be able to use the 3.0h2 to 3.0i public patch unless
- you remember to back up your PageStream3 and BME program files
- =before= installing the beta, and to replace them before running the
- 3.0i patch.
-
- Caveat #3: you would have to download approximately 1MB at your own
- expense to get the beta.
-
- If you're unsure of how to do #1 or #2, or can't afford #3, please
- don't ask for the beta. Why would you want the beta? Probably for
- the cool Pen and Reshape tools. Maybe for the new Epson driver. Maybe
- for the CyberGfx support. It's up to you. See the changes log below
- for details.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Michael @ Soft-Logik
-
- CIS: 76004,1676
- GEnie: SL-MIKE
- Soft-Logik BBS: Michael Loader
-
- -------
-
- STILL TO DO FOR 3.0i:
- - Fix style tag & text color related problems.
-
- TEXT:
- - Implemented font caching. In previous versions, PageStream
- allocated memory for fonts as you used them until you ran out of
- memory. It now caches the last 10 fonts used. When you use the
- 11th font, the first one is uncached.
- - Changed the <As Is> text displayed in lists when attributes were
- indeterminate (see page 25 of the manual) to more specific text:
- <Mixed> Means that the selected text or objects have mixed
- attributes.
- FontName A fontname above a divider in a font list means that
- the font is not currently installed. PageStream will
- display the text in another font, but will remember the
- font name so that you know which font to add.
- Additional text strings will be added as required in the future.
- If the font attribute is not mixed, <As Is> or <Mixed> will no
- longer be shown in the font popup menu control.
- - Fixed the problem with cursor movements being acted upon before
- the last buffered text.
- - Fixed the hyphenation rules problems; before and after character
- rules were being ignored.
- - AGaramond and ABembo Expert families will no longer be re-encoded.
- (ie, the characters will now be in the right positions.) Other
- Expert families will continue to be re-encoded, so if you use a
- different one, contact Soft-Logik Technical Support at
- tech@slpc.com.
- - Fixed a problem with inserting user variables.
-
- OBJECT DRAWING & MANIPULATION:
- - Completely implemented the Pen tool!!!
- - Completely implemented the Reshape tool!!!
- - Implemented the Reshape tool for reshaping grid objects. (Not in
- manual, new featurette.)
- - Fixed the scale problem with dissolving scaled drawings.
- - Fixed the problem with transforming when the offsets were zero
- but scale or rotation was not zero.
- - Fixed the problem with resizing drawings with the Edit palette
- or Edit requester.
- - Fixed the problem with importing ILUS files containing drawing
- objects.
- - Fixed the problem with Distribute when using bounding box and
- either left, center or right spacing.
-
- OPEN/SAVE:
- - When you open a PageStream2 document, a requester will now open
- with five options to help you convert the text to use the new
- formatting commands in PageStream3. This requester is documented
- in the online help system.
- - Fixed the crash bug with Revert to Saved.
-
- POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- - Fixed arrowhead printing to PostScript printers.
-
- EPSON DRIVER:
- - Completely rewrote the Epson driver to take into account the
- varying margins of newer models.
- - Added XPD files that describe Epson printer standards in the
- SoftLogik:Printers/XPD directory. XPD/EpsonModels is a table of
- each model and the XPD file that matches it. All XPD files are
- in ASCII format, so you can add your own. If you add or modify
- one, or use an Epson compatible model that is not in the table,
- please provide us with the details via email (tech@slpc.com)
- so that we can update our master files.
- - Added many more brands and models to the Epson compatible model
- list. If you had selected a Generic model, please reset your
- settings because there are additional generic variations now.
- - Added the Epson Stylus Color series to the Epson driver.
-
- MISC:
- - Added support for CyberGfx. You can now work in up to 24 bit
- mode on a CyberGfx compatible system! Note that the problem with
- crashing when changing screen modes and quitting is due to a bug
- in the CyberGfx software which will be fixed in its next update.
- - The splash screen (startup and About requesters) now displays
- much faster.
- - Changed the default path for Backups to Documents/Backups from
- just Backups. If you have already saved your settings, this will
- not affect you.
- - Fixed the problem with the Auto Kerning command becoming unchecked
- when cancelling the Auto Hyphenation requester.
-
- MACROS:
- - IMPORTANT: Changed parameter names for: DISPLAY, SETTOOLMODE.
- - New commands for: ***document new commands***
- - New parameters for: NUDGE, MOVE, DISPLAY, SETTOOLMODE.
- - Removed the HIGHDATA parameter from ADDAREXXGADGET. Remove this
- from any scripts you have created. (Amiga only)
-
- BME:
- - Fixed a serious problem with pasting a bitmap larger than the
- current image. This could also affect rotating a selection so that
- the selection was now larger than the image in one direction.
- - Changed the Emboss filter so that the lightsource is in the upper
- left corner.
-