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- From: mssoft@cube.net (Markus Schlittenbauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: PageStream 3.0i does bad math
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 16:34:47 GMT
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- Robert Knop (rknop@netcom.com) schrieb:
- > I don't know why I continue to try -- PageStream 3, despite its power, has
- > been more of a continual headache than any computer program ought to be.
- > Talk about giving the Amiga a name for kludginess! Not only is the program
- > still vaporware 2 years after it's released, but it will never work in a
- > pinch when you need it.
-
- > Mistake: I upgraded to 3.0i. Should have stayed behind. A file which used
- > to work, still works just fine in PageStream 3. But when it writes
- > PostScript: it tries to take an illegal atan. No printer will print this
- > damn postscript file. Previewing it with Post, it draws the whole thing,
- > but then dies at the end on the atan. Same problem in GhostView on a Unix
- > machine ("Unrecoverable Error 1.") In short, I'm hosed.
-
- > It's a perfectly simple drawing-- four ovals filled with various patterns,
- > ten or so lines, and five or six frameless text objects. And I need it for
- > a paper that I'm submitting _right_now_, not to mention a job talk I have to
- > give momentarily. I'd drawn it in PageStream, and now I'm regretting that,
- > because to get the damn thing to print out I will have to re-install
- > PageStream from scratch and work my way up to version 3.0h.
-
- > On the whole, I think it's easier to start the figure over in another
- > program.
-
- > -Rob Knop
-
- Hi ROb!
- I had the same "atan"-problem!
-
- I then selected "all objects" and found soms VERY small objects which
- didnt even have one pixel. When I deleted those "blind" objects, it
- worked
-
- Please try and give me feedback at mssoft@cube.net
-
- Markus
-
-
- > --
- > -Rob Knop (rknop@netcom.com) http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~rknop/
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