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- Short: PageStream 3.0a to 3.0b Patch file
- Author: Soft-Logik Publishing Corp.
- Uploader: soft-logik@cup.portal.com
- Type: biz/patch
-
- WELCOME TO THE PAGESTREAM 3.0b FREE UPDATE!
- -------------------------------------------
-
- There are 4 archive files for this update. The most you will need is three
- of them. Only one is required for the actual update, and there are
- separate versions of it depending on whether you are updating from 3.0 or
- 3.0a. The other two are optional depending on what you want to update.
-
- PS3B01.LHA - you need this file to upgrade from 3.0
- PS3BA1.LHA - you need this file to upgrade from 3.0a
- PS3B2.LHA - includes additional DMF fonts (see below)
- PS3B3.LHA - includes updated help files and macro definitions
-
- All archives contain installation scripts to install their files. You MUST
- have PageStream 3.0 or 3.0a, as applicable, properly installed on your
- hard drive to use these installers, and you MUST have disk 1 of your
- original PageStream3 disk set available.
-
- NOTE: The installer in this archive will overwrite your current
- PageStream3.Macros file. If you have macros in it you wish to keep, make
- a backup copy of your file before using this installer. After installation,
- run PageStream3 and append your old Macros file to the new one. Remove
- redundant entries as required.
-
- DMF fonts: the 3.0 and 3.0a releases of PageStream included DMF font files
- for the standard 35 set, less Times and Helvetica (Triumvirate) which are
- included in Compugraphic format. Only one DMF file was included for each
- font family. The PS3B2.LHA archive contains the remaining DMF files so
- that you can print these fonts to all types of printers. So if you want to
- print bold or italic versions of these fonts, you need the DMF font files
- in the PS3B2.LHA archive.
-
- As always, this update is available for purchase from Soft-Logik sales for
- our normal $10 disk fee. Please enclose $5 shipping and handling for the
- US and Canada, and $15 for other countries. Write, fax or phone the
- address and phone numbers on the back of your PageStream3 manual to order.
-
- THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARCHIVE ARE COPYRIGHT 1994 SOFT-LOGIK PUBLISHING
- CORPORATION. (EXCEPT FOR SPATCH WHICH IS COPYRIGHT 1992 SAS INSTITUTE AND
- LHEX WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY COMMODORE.)
-
- THIS ARCHIVE CAN BE DISTRIBUTED AS LONG AS IT IS LEFT INTACT WITHOUT ANY
- CHANGES! NO CHARGE ASIDE FROM A REASONABLE COPYING AND DISK FEE CAN BE
- CHARGED FOR IT.
-
- 1994 SOFT-LOGIK PUBLISHING CORP.
-
-
-
- PAGESTREAM 3.0b UPDATE INFORMATION
-
- There are 4 archive files for this update. The most you will need is three
- of them. Only one is required for the actual update, and there are
- separate versions of it depending on whether you are updating from 3.0 or
- 3.0a. The other two are optional depending on what you want to update.
-
- PS3B01.LHA -> you need this file to upgrade from 3.0
-
- PS3BA1.LHA -> you need this file to upgrade from 3.0a
-
- PS3B2.LHA -> includes additional DMF fonts (see below)
-
- PS3B3.LHA -> includes updated help files and macro definitions
-
- All archives contain installation scripts to install their files. You MUST
- have PageStream 3.0 or 3.0a, as applicable, properly installed on your
- hard drive to use these installers, and you MUST have disk 1 of your
- original PageStream3 disk set available.
-
-
- CHANGES FROM 3.0a TO 3.0b
-
- TEXT:
- - Text entry and formatting is 50% faster in this version. Yes, it is still
- way too slow, but it's getting there.
- - Paragraph Format: Left/First/Right Indent are now implemented.
- - Ctrl C and D special character shortcuts are now implemented.
- - Insert Character works again.
- - Default tab spacing has been implemented.
- - Cut/Copy/Paste in frameless text objects works now.
- - Keyboard shortcuts for moving the insertion point in frameless text
- objects have been implemented.
- - Edit palette arrow gadgets for text size, width, tracking and leading
- can now be used with a Shift key for greater precision.
- - Fixed the Convert Case commands.
- - Pasting a text wrapped object now updates text frames overlapping it.
- - Note: some Text Wrap methods which worked in 3.0a have been disabled for
- this release. They will return next time.
- - Fixed the displaying of PS or DMF fonts at low magnifications or very
- small sizes on screen which would offset them from their baseline.
- - Fixed Times Bold/Italic reversal on PostScript printers.
- - Fixed ASCII, FTXT, Excellence and Final Writer filters for problems
- caused by converting more than 11 dashes.
- - Double spacing between sentences no longer permits the 2nd space to fall
- at the beginning of a line.
- - Fixed all known problems for printing Compugraphic fonts to PostScript.
- - Linked frames on the same page should now update properly.
- - Fixed leading problem when the previous line had a larger point size.
- - Fixed problems with leading options in the Edit palette.
-
- PRINTING:
- - Fixed color HP.printer DeskJet problems.
- - Fixed HP.printer PaintJet problems.
- - New Fargo.printer driver for the Primera wax thermal and dye sublimation
- printer. (This will not work with the Primera Pro.)
- - Improved Epson.printer color printing to decrease saturation.
- - Corrected A4 paper size in HP.printer and Epson.printer.
- - Print requester options will now remain set from one print job to the
- next during the current session.
- - Improved ordered dithering for HP, Epson and IFF ILBM printer drivers.
- - PostScript: error handler is now off as the default. If you have saved
- your settings, you can speed up printing by turning off the error
- handler in Printing Preferences and then saving your settings again.
- - Fixed color PostScript printing of certain pictures.
- - Fixed display and printing of the bold and italic variations of the
- standard 35 fonts, by adding DMF files for these fonts. (This requires
- the PS3B2.LHA archive.)
- - Fixed some problems printing drawings to PostScript.
- - Fixed printing multiple frames on one page to PostScript.
- - Fixed some non-standard character PostScript printing for resident fonts
- and for downloaded Adobe Standard Encoded fonts. The characters include
- typographic quotation marks, British Pound sign, bullet, ellipsis,
- ligatures, en and em dashes, daggers, etc. The remaining characters and
- other font types will be completed in 3.0c.
- - Fixed HP.printer printing when the paper size was greater than 8.5x11".
-
- PAGESTREAM2 DOCUMENT LOADING:
- - If you converted 2.2 documents to 3.0 with previous versions of 3.0,
- each article will really be one paragraph. (New Line codes were inserted
- instead of New Paragraphs. Refer to page 168 for info on new lines vs
- new paragraphs.) This is somewhat important, because paragraph spacing
- cannot be used if the entire article is one paragraph, and things like
- automatic drop caps and bullets will only appear at the start of the
- article. You can fix this by positioning the insertion point at the
- start of each 'paragraph' (new line), then pressing Backspace and then
- Return. Alternatively, if you haven't already made a change to the
- document in 3.0, simply reload the 2.2 document into 3.0b to convert it
- properly.
- - Text was being loaded with Track table set to Normal, which could change
- line breaks. It now loads with Track table set to None.
- - Fixed the problem with PageStream2 text frames having multiple columns
- on loading.
-
- MACROS & AREXX:
- - added the sendtopageliner script.
-
- MISC:
- - Loading a 3.0 document now preserves double-sided master page.
- - PageStream 2.2 documents now load unnamed.
- - Changed AmigaDOS 2.x color allocation to be more stingy with colors.
- - Text frame backgrounds now default to transparent instead of opaque. If
- you have saved your Toolbox Preferences, you can change this and then
- save your settings again.
- - Settings/Screen: if the Display DPI text gadgets are blank, PageStream
- will use the default resolution for most standard screen modes now. This
- is convenient if you often switch between screens of different standard
- resolutions. If you enter values, it won't switch automatically.
- - Problems with moving drawings containing groups and lines are resolved.
- - Several of the filters have been reduced in size to save memory.
- - Fixed problems with master pages renaming to default.
- - Added a busy pointer when showing font samples.
- - Added the ability to change PageStream3's interface colors. Refer to the
- Screen option in the Interface topic group in the main PageStream3 Help
- screen for more information. You must download the PS3B3.LHA archive to
- get the new version of the help files.
- - The Visual Reference gadgets in the Help system did not work under
- AmigaDOS 2.x. The new help files in the PS3B3.LHA archive fix this
- problem. Depending on when you received PageStream3 and whether you had
- AmigaGuide on your system already, the WDisplay utility may not have been
- installed in your Sys:Utilities directory. If it is not there and you have
- AmigaDOS2, you should decompress it from the Guide.LHA archive on your
- original disk 2.
-
- BME
- - New Emboss and Sharpen effects have been added! Refer to the help system
- for information. (The new help files are included in the PS3B3.LHA
- archive.)
-
- NOTES:
- - You cannot rotate/slant/twist Compugraphic fonts beyond 50 degrees in
- either direction at this time. (This includes rotating Compugraphic
- fonts in frameless text objects.) Other font formats can be rotated
- without restriction.
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 9857 9857 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:16:16 3.0bUpdate/ArtExpression.LHA
- 20405 20405 0.0% 13-Oct-94 01:55:22 3.0bUpdate/Effects.LHA
- 84037 84037 0.0% 13-Oct-94 01:55:58 3.0bUpdate/Engines.LHA
- 13967 13967 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:00:08 3.0bUpdate/Epson.LHA
- 7807 7807 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:17:12 3.0bUpdate/Excellence.LHA
- 14162 14162 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:00:26 3.0bUpdate/Fargo.LHA
- 63414 63414 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:26:26 3.0bUpdate/Filters.LHA
- 9480 9480 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:20:44 3.0bUpdate/Freehand.LHA
- 8988 8988 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:17:32 3.0bUpdate/FWriter.LHA
- 14031 14031 0.0% 13-Oct-94 01:59:34 3.0bUpdate/HP.LHA
- 11437 11437 0.0% 13-Oct-94 01:59:56 3.0bUpdate/IFFILBM.LHA
- 19365 19365 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:27:34 3.0bUpdate/Illustrator.LHA
- 8570 8570 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:42:44 3.0bUpdate/LibsPatch.LHA
- 39282 39282 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:28:12 3.0bUpdate/PageStream2.LHA
- 171325 171325 0.0% 13-Oct-94 03:26:44 3.0bUpdate/PGSpatch.LHA
- 14815 14815 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:05:56 3.0bUpdate/PLpatch.LHA
- 36516 36516 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:01:38 3.0bUpdate/PostScript.LHA
- 18993 18993 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:28:44 3.0bUpdate/PPage.LHA
- 11322 11322 0.0% 13-Oct-94 01:59:44 3.0bUpdate/Preference.LHA
- 7405 7405 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:29:04 3.0bUpdate/ProDraw.LHA
- 8905 8905 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:29:40 3.0bUpdate/ProWrite.LHA
- 5183 5183 0.0% 13-Oct-94 03:32:48 3.0bUpdate/Read.LHA
- 14636 9285 36.5% 20-Sep-94 17:20:02 3.0bUpdate/spatch
- 7406 7406 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:30:14 3.0bUpdate/Word.LHA
- 12086 12086 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:30:44 3.0bUpdate/WordPerfect.LHA
- 11535 11535 0.0% 13-Oct-94 02:31:52 3.0bUpdate/Wordworth.LHA
- 522 266 49.0% 13-Oct-94 03:04:52 Read.1st!.info
- 15688 15688 0.0% 13-Oct-94 03:34:24 3.0bupdate/Tips.LHA
- 24378 24378 0.0% 13-Oct-94 03:39:34 3.0bupdate/Macros.LHA
- 628 269 57.1% 13-Oct-94 03:51:16 3.0bUpdate.info
- 735 375 48.9% 13-Oct-94 03:51:16 3.0bUpdate/Install-PageStream3.0b.info
- 9502 2169 77.1% 13-Oct-94 03:52:44 3.0bUpdate/Install-PageStream3.0b
- 2313 1175 49.2% 13-Oct-94 04:07:02 Read.1st!
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