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Radius, Inc.
IPA/GX Controls 3.0
Needs: Photoshop 2.5x, 3.0, Various cards
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- One version of GX Controls now accommodates all CPUs, including the PowerPC.
Additions
Vendor's ftp site.
Radius, Inc.
QuickColor 3.2.6
Needs: PrecisionColor 8x or later
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Support for acceleration under KanjiTalk 7.1.2 & later system software.
Vendor's ftp site.
Radius, Inc.
SoftPivot 3.2
Needs: Radius Pivot, Mac w/built-in video
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Support for Display Manager and System 7.5.
- Support for PowerBooks 520, 520c, 540 and 540c.
- Compatibility with the Apple Power Mac Upgrade Card.
- Support for PowerBook Duo 280 and 280c (on a compatible Dock).
Incompatibilities
- "Hot clocked" computers.
- Cosmetic glitch with System 7.5's boot-up progress bar.
- The Monitors control panel may become temporarily confused if the Pivot is set as the start-up monitor.
- Possible inconsistent reporting by the Monitors control panel in systems before 7.5.
- Some situations where color depth set to "millions" is not remembered (reboots in B&W).
- Possible situation where all INITs do not load. This may happen in low memory conditions with millions of colors (Soft Pivot may have taken up all the room in the System heap). This is most likely to occur on 8MB Power Macs using the video DRAM.
Notes
- Not for use with any video interface cards, except for Apple Power Mac DRAM expansion cards.
- The included Dynamic Desktop replaces Radiusware, which must be removed to use Soft Pivot 3.2.
- See the Update Database for supported and unsupported configurations.
Vendor's ftp site.
Radius, Inc.
SuperVideo 3.0.2
Needs: SuperMac graphics card, 3.0 ROM
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- Files include SuperPower 1.0.1.
Changes
- Numerous unspecified functional and aesthetic changes.
Fixes
- SuperPower 1.01: Problem in the software which could lead to screen artifacts in the preview mode of certain applications when zoomed in 400% or more in a document with more than 992 pixels horizontally in a single line of text.
- General instability on Power Macs.
Additions
- Support for the Thunder II GX*1600 card.
- Support for Power Macs and DuoDock INIT v1.2 (for use with any card carrying the 3.0 ROM in a DuoDock) (SuperPower 1.0.1).
Vendor's ftp site.
Radius, Inc.
Thunder II GX 3.0
Needs: Thunder II GX graphics card
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Acceleration of CMYK imaging in Photoshop 3.0 in both 68K and Power Macs.
Vendor's ftp site.
RasterOps/Truevision
PaintBoard Control Panel 8Li 1.1
Needs: PaintBoard 8Li
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Now prevented from loading on a Power Mac.
Fixes
- Multiple system beeps during System 7.5 boot while the control panel is loading.
- Text corruption in menus and title bars.
Additions
- RasterOps Driver Patch v1.0 added to the disk.
Notes
- System 7.5 users must use the RasterOps Driver Patch 1.0.
Vendor's ftp site.
Ray Dream, Inc.
Ray Dream Designer 3.1.2
Needs: RDD 3.1.1
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- There are three patchers (68K, fat, and PPC) covered by this update.
Changes
- Compatibility with QuickTime 2.0.
Fixes
- A defect in network protection.
- Quitting while rendering a scene.
- Various localized defects in the modelers.
- Basic Shaders defects in the Wood and Marble Natural Functions.
Vendor's ftp site.
STF Technologies, Inc.
FaxSTF 3.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Fax Manager:
- Archive menu now lists aliased custom archive folders.
- Enter key now closes file name fields in the activity windows.
- Cover Page editor now updates a 2.x cover page file when it is opened.
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Fax Monitor:
- "Notify of Reception" option now defaults to OFF on a PowerBook (use of option prevents PowerBook from sleeping).
- The FaxMonitor is now backward compatible with 2.x cover pages format.
- FaxMonitor now warns the user if it cannot launch AutoOCR or AutoPrint, and will periodically attempt to launch them again.
Fixes
- AutoOCR: Lockup if STF AutoOCR attempts to process a damaged received fax file.
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AutoPrint:
- Lockup if STF AutoPrint attempts to process a damaged received fax file.
- Shrink to fit option failing to work when the fax page being printed was larger than 9.775 inches wide and/or 12.65 inches tall (STF AutoPrint would incorrectly print a page this large on two pages).
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Fax In:
- Hanging or visual garbage when creating a new settings file after modifying any of the Fax In settings.
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Fax Manager:
- Intermittent problems with pasting into the phone book entry editing dialog or the settings dialog.
- Error when printing a fax file using the print button in the Fax In activity window.
- Incorrect sorting order when a file name is changed and the window is not sorted by name.
- Error when all the files of an Activity window are selected and deleted unless sorted by name.
- Problem of two items being selected by type selection in a phone book window.
- Problem with type selection and diacritical marks in the phone book windows.
- Phone book find command not finding an entry that has just been added.
- Incorrect drawing of Activity window columns, when the last column is shrunk.
- Elapsed time being written more than once in the log file when the modem fails to respond to the hang up message on the first attempt.
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Fax Menu:
- Crashing when FaxSTF is installed on top of new system software without selecting a printer first.
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FaxPrint:
- Disappearance of print dialog's phone and the "Send To" lists in FreeHand 4.0 and some other apps.
- Mouse clicks not working in the print dialog's phone list (incompatibility with the Apple Japanese Language Kit).
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Fax Settings:
- Destruction of text pasted into any of the panels, especially on 680x0 Macs.
- Hanging or visual garbage occurring when creating a new settings file after modifying any of the current panel's settings.
Additions
- General:
- Compatibility with system 7.5 and Power Mac.
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Fax Manager:
- Support for Global Village PowerPort Mercury modem for PowerBook Duos.
- Automatic updating of the log file window when open and is the front most window.
- Conversion of low res fax files to higher resolution for improved OCR recognition.
- STF Manager will now attempt recovery of damaged (bad reception) fax files.
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Fax Settings:
- Special icon and name for the Apple Express Modem/GeoPort Telecom Adapter in the Connection settings panel.
- Warning that use of "Notify of Reception" option will keep the hard drives from sleeping.
Removals
- Fax Manager:
- WYSIWYG display of font selected in the Cover Page Editor's labels dialog (due to display updating inconsistently).
- The find command beeping when the user hits cancel.
- Capability to rename a fax file while it is being viewed (to prevent unusual visual problems).
Incompatibilities
- QuickDraw GX (to be remedied with the future release of FaxPrint GX. See Update Database for list of conflicts and anomalies.
Notes
- See Update Database for important installation notes.
STF Technologies, Inc.
FaxSTF 3.1 (Profile Update) -
Needs: FaxSTF 3.1 Installer
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- This update is necessary only for the modems listed below.
Additions
- Support for the following modems: Hayes OPTIMA 28.8, Hayes OPTIMA 14.4 Pocket, MDS 14.4, Logitec LFM-144B, SmartLink 9614, SmartLink 1414AV, MacWarehouse PowerUser 9696, Intertex 14/28, AT&T DataPort Express, Global Village TelePort Gold II, Best Data SmartOne 1442 FX, NetComm M4F, USR 28.8 Mac & Fax, and Suntac MS144AVF.
STF Technologies, Inc.
PowerFax PE 1.0.5
Needs: PowerFax from the System 7.5CD
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Line manager compatibility problems.
Additions
- Support for the Global Village PowerPort Mercury modems for the Duo's and 500 series PowerBooks.
Strata Inc.
StudioPro 1.5.1
Needs: StudioPro 1.5
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- There are three StudioPro 1.5.1 updaters: 68K, PowerPC, and fat binary.
Changes
- Boolean modeling: Progress Indicator improvement & speed improvements.
- Faster Installation.
Fixes
- Problems reading DXF files.
Additions
- More Warp functionality.
- Boolean modeling: Option to generate smooth geometry.
- DXF: Color Information & Entity Coordinate System.
Symantec Fifth Generation Systems, Inc.
Suitcase 2.1.4p3
Needs: Suitcase 2.14x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Incompatibility with Jigsaw Puzzle desk accessory (and possibly other programs) with respect to loading sounds.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Synex
Bar Code Pro 2.08
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Will now warn customer that further text is required when necessary to complete a chosen format.
- A holding rectangle is now displayed automatically for POSTNET and FIM, not just when background field is transparent.
- Allowable serialization step values are now 1 to 99 (was 0 to 99).
- Maximum length of Code 128 data is now 70 characters (was 40).
- ">" is available to the whole UPC family when there is an add-on requirement.
- Expansion and modification of the Help file.
- Default font is now Courier when printing EPS with a non-PostScript font.
Fixes
- Saved EPS files which contain spaces in their names being concatenated when resaved.
- PICT POSTNET screen refresh problem.
- The GetFile dialog disappearing when doing multiple saves under System 6.
- Inadvertent alteration of the user-selected CMYK settings if the K value was too big.
Additions
- Compatibility with Quark XPress 3.3.
- The symbologies JAN-13 and JAN-8 added to the complete library of symbologies.
- Reading of all files saved by 2.0.x.
- Preventing graphics from being saved without colors being designated (making files more compatible with Freehand and Illustrator).
- BCP warning when MSI/Plessey, with Mod 11 selected, generates a check digit of 10 (a poor self-checking number).
- Using RETURN key to save.
Notes
- Contact Synex to order the update.
Synex
Label Press 1.0.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Merge field names can now be up to 31 characters (formerly 20 character limit).
Notes
- Contact Synex to order the update.
Synex
MacEnvelope 5.2.4
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- EPS graphics printing in wrong position on HP LaserJet 4M printers.
- Quadra 660AV or 880AV with Geoport extentions crashing on startup.
- List sometimes getting corrupted when using Save As..., when a name already saved in the list is changed.
- Moving down one label before beginning to print on ImageWriter II.
Additions
- Support LaserWriter driver 8.1.1.
Notes
- Contact Synex for the update.
Synex
MacEnvelope Professional 1.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Presort options relocated to the Bulk Mail Report Options.
- Presort report option by Tray is different depending on sortation and Bar Code option.
- Presort by Trays fits as many envelopes as possible to get the best rates per USPS regulations for Third Class.
- Bulk mail reports updated per new postal regulations.
- Postage rates per 1995 rate changes.
Fixes
- EPS graphics printing in wrong position on HP LaserJet 4M printers.
- Quadra 660AV or 880AV with Geoport extentions crashing on startup.
- List sometimes getting corrupted when using Save As..., when a name already saved in the list is changed.
- Moving down one label before beginning to print on ImageWriter II.
Additions
- Bulk Mail menu.
- Sack or Tray preparation selection in the Report Options dialog.
- Trays Preparation permits company name and non-profit status.
- Support LaserWriter driver 8.1.1 including the downloading of EPS graphics and fonts.
Notes
- Contact Synex to order the update.
usrEZ Software, Inc.
ultraSHIELD 2.52
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Enhanced workstation activity logging options.
Fixes
- Incompatibilities with Ram Doubler and backup programs such as Retrospect Remote.
Additions
- Support for Power Mac and System 7.5.
- Comprehensive FileShare activity/audit logging and recording options.
- Automatic "alert" notification when the workstation is logged onto by others over FileShare.
- Compatibility with IDE drives.
- Master Administrator feature.
Notes
- Contact usrEZ to order the update.
VICOM Technology, Ltd.
Vicom MultiTerm Blue 5.11r1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- Also applies to Runtime Blue 5.11r1.
Additions
- IND$File file transfer for IBM TN3270 terminal sessions.
Notes
- Contact VICOM to order the update.
VICOM Technology, Ltd.
Vicom MultiTerm Plus 5.11r1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- Also applies to Runtime Plus 5.11r1.
Additions
- Tandem 6526 and 6530 emulations.
Notes
- Contact VICOM to order the update.
VICOM Technology, Ltd.
Vicom MultiTerm PRO SDK 5.11r1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- IND$File file transfer for IBM TN3270 terminal sessions.
- Tandem 6526 and 6530 emulations.
Notes
- Contact VICOM to order the update.
VIDI
ModelPro 3.0.1[b18]
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- Changes are for 68K, PPC, and fat versions (each is a separate file).
Fixes
- Unspecified problems with libraries and locking groups. Unconfirmed whether problems existed with the non-Power Mac version.
VIDI
Presenter Pro 3.0.1b21
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- Changes are for 68K, PPC, and fat versions (each is a separate file).
Fixes
- Bug in 3.0.1b19 in which renderman shader parameters become corrupted.
Wacom Technology Corp.
Wacom Tablet Driver 2.3.6
Needs: Wacom Tablet
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- The UD tablet menu strip now scrolls to allow for longer menu strips.
- CAD applications should now work with all tablets.
Additions
- New procedures for first-time installation.
- Support for all Wacom tablets.
- Puck settings pane for ArtZ ADB tablets.
- Support for attachment of Multiple tablets (serial and ADB).
- Multimode, permitting choice of cursor or button control.
- A dialog to allow combinations of individual modifier keys, with click added as a modifier.
Incompatibilities
- Crashing when printing a summary to a spooled printer (including the ImageWriter in non-draft mode) in System 6.
- Crashing of Serial Port Arbitrator and Energy Saver when loaded before the Wacom driver.
Notes
- See Update Database for other incompatibilities.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
WaveMetrics, Inc.
IGOR Pro 2.0.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Power Mac native support.
Notes
- Contact WaveMetrics to order the update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
WaveMetrics, Inc.
IGOR XOP Toolkit 2.0.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Support for CodeWarrior and Power Mac native extensions.
Notes
- Contact WaveMetrics to order the update.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
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