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John Neil & Associates
SoftwareFPU 3.02
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- There is also a "fat" 68K/PowerPC version available.
Fixes
- Incorrect fax number in registration form.
Notes
- See Update Database for shareware registration and info on purchasing the Power Mac version.
Vendor's ftp site.
Light Source, Inc.
Ofoto Mac Driver and Calibration Files v2
Needs: Various scanners
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
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- These files are for adding to Ofoto retail versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2, and 2.0.3 (non-OEM).
Additions
- Support for the La Cie Silverscanner, the HP ScanJet IIcx, and the Agfa Arcus Plus.
Lind Electronic Design, Inc.
Battery Utility 500 Deluxe 2.0.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Modifications of text explanations of functions.
- Minor cosmetic changes to windows.
- Expansion of memory diagnostics.
Additions
- Menu selection for feature set.
- Compatibility with Apple's Intelligent Battery Update software.
- Support for System 7.5.
- Full native support for Power Mac.
LinksWare Corporation
LinksWare 3.1.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- QuickTime movies not binding successfully.
Macromedia
Director 4.04
Needs: Director 4.0 or 4.03 (Mac 680x0)
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- Two updaters are available, one for updating from MD 4.0 and the other from 4.03. The update to the native Power Mac version must be obtained from Macromedia.
Changes
- Online help now runs faster.
- The help window is now resizable and movable.
- Faster processing now supports tempos up to 120 frames per second.
- All dialog boxes are now movable by dragging the title bar.
- In the Load Cast option in the Movie Info dialog box, the default setting is now "Load Cast When Needed".
Additions
- Native Power Mac support (but not in the updater).
- Ability to create projectors to run on 68K Macs, Power Macs, or for both.
- Example Lingo scripts in many Lingo help topics that can be copied and pasted into new Director scripts.
- Help topics can now be printed.
- Display mirroring on the PowerBook.
- Automatic pre-rolling of QuickTime movies for better QT 2.0 playback.
- Compatibility with virtual memory.
Cross-platform issues: Director now maps most upper-case ASCII characters.
- New FontMap.TXT provides better cross-platform font mapping.
- Added videoForWindowsPresent Lingo function.
Manhattan Graphics Corporation
ReadySetGo 6.0.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Occasional shifting of page elements about 1/4 inch using LaserWriter 8.0.
- Problems printing to FAX modems and QuickDraw printers.
- TAB ruler disappearing from screen.
- Other unspecified minor problems.
Additions
- Ability to open Font suitcases when RSG is in use.
- White areas of B&W TIFF images may now be made transparent.
- Command keys have been added to lock/unlock objects.
- Microsoft Excel and DCA/RFT translators.
Removals
Mark/Space Softworks
Mark/Space ZMODEM Tool 1.03
Needs: ZMODEM Tool 1.0x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- Complete file included with Communicate Lite 1.5 or available as an updater from BBS or ftp site.
Fixes
- "Protocol Error" message appearing occasionally during uploading.
Vendor's ftp site.
Microtek Lab, Inc.
ScanMaker Plug-In 2.09, Release 2
Needs: Microtek scanner
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Inability to prescan using Power Macs with PhotoShop 3 and older Microtek scanners (300G, 300Z, 300ZS, 600Z, 600ZS, & 1850S) ("Scanning cancelled by user" coming up on every prescan).
Mirror Technologies, Inc.
MirrorScan 2.4.1
Needs: Mirror 600, 800,1200 Plus or Pro Scanners
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Compatibility with the 3.6 ROMS.
- Gang scanning.
Notes
- This version does not work with the Mirror 600 Scanner based on the UMAX engine. (Updates for the 600 Scanner are available directly from UMAX at 800-468-8629.)
Neon Software
LAT Module -
Needs: NetMinder Ethernet 3.0+
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Support for DEC LAT protocol.
Niles & Associates
EndNote Plus 2.0.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Improvements in formatting of FrameMaker MIF files.
Fixes
- "Unimplemented Trap" error when starting EndNote Plus on any 68000 Mac running System 7.
- Printing problems with System 6.
- Problem with the Refer/BibIX import option that causes all references to be imported into one record (or an error message such as "Ran out of memory").
Notes
- Contact Niles to request the free update.
Vendor's ftp site.
Nisus Software Inc.
NisusWriter 4.06
Needs: NisusWriter version to which the appropriate Updater applies.
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- User must choose NisusWriter 4.0/4.01->4.06 Updater or NisusWriter 4.03/05->4.06 Updater, depending on what version is being updated from.
Changes
- 4.06:
- "Control Key Activates Balloon Help" can now be turned off.
- Faster memory management in many cases.
- Now removes the "virtual" NisusWriterTmpPref file from the System Folder.
- When user chooses "Gloss", "Keep on same line" is now the preset option (until changed).
- The Claris filters are now installed in the Claris Translators Folder in the Claris folder.
- The "Windows" menu lists all open Nisus windows.
- "Remove Gremlins" now displays an appropriate dialog when nothing is found.
- Positions of the Catalog and Clipboard windows are now saved and the initial positions of windows are optimized for each display.
- Dictionary Preferences... dialog can now be moved.
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Graphics:
- Imported graphics that contain text are now imported with no background rather than a white background.
- User selections are copied more completely in footnote insertion after first footnote insertion is made (such as deletion of tab before footnote number).
- Return to Nisus 3.4 file format of FootNote Symbols.
- Now uses the neighboring header/footer for ruler and font style (no longer centered by default).
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WorldScript support:
- Added most items in the "Find/Replace" menu to the Searching Preferences dialog.
- Makes the last font used in a script the default font in that script.
- Return and Enter keys now active in the New Glossary Entry... dialog allowing Japanese Kanji to be entered.
- Highlighting of Japanese inline text now uses the System style.
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4.05:
- Slightly faster macros.
- Event loop gives Nisus Writer more time in the foreground.
Fixes
- 4.06:
- Hanging on startup on some systems.
- Disk thrashing in low memory situations.
- Floating palette positions not remembered if computer restarted from the Finder.
- Crashing on when restarted from the Finder if a Nisus modal dialog is active.
- "Hard-coded" macros sometimes crashing.
- Crash with FAX printing INIT.
- "Squashing" of an inserted equation if Redo is chosen after Undo.
- Floating tool bars not letting a new document display its styles.
- When floating tool bars are active and a page layout window gets closed, the window behind it fails to activate.
- Crashing with publishers in a renamed but not saved document.
- Crashing and other anomalies with the Thesaurus window due to the pop-up menu selections.
- Crashing when choosing Thesaurus on any Mac without Color QuickDraw.
- Fully justified "Invisible Text" taking up space.
- Crashing when user creates file in Nisus 4.0 using page number counters, then opened in Nisus 3.4, then re-opened in 4.0.
- Problem of all the counters in a document being off by one when "Update Cross References" is chosen.
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Graphics:
- Color and Fill were not reading in properly for Text Boxes on the graphics layer (e.g. copying a Text Box and pasting it elsewhere would change the graphic).
- Imported graphics with an ASCII character above 128 were placed into a Text Box too small.
- Problems involving incorrect grouping of graphics and front-to-back ordering of fixed-to-page graphics.
- Unnecessary "flashing" of graphics that are being displayed the first time.
- Inserted character graphic being ignored when window is closed quickly.
- Incorrect placement of pasted graphics attached to paragraphs.
- Graphic anchors for graphics that are behind the text did not show up.
- The first line at the top of a page starting slightly above the top, which occurs when the text on the preceding page has fixed line spacing and a page-fixed graphic near the bottom with insufficient space for another line beneath.
- In a "Graphics For..." window, the vertical offset is ignored when user selects a graphic, and then chooses "Duplicate".
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Headers & Footers:
- Crashing when a document has footnotes containing page numbers but has no headers or footers.
- Crashing when viewing footnotes when the footnotes contain more characters than the main document and the last footnote contains a page number counter near the end.
- Page numbers being off by one (or more) pages, particularly all "endnotes" showing the same number for every page.
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WorldScript:
- A hyphen being inserted when an English word ends one line and a Japanese word (or any script) begins the next.
- Gradual slow down when entering text in any Asian script that uses an input method.
- Strange behavior when command-space is used to switch scripts with some Asian input methods.
- Bad handling of "Reverse" style in Chinese or Japanese.
- Improper printing of justified text in Chinese or Japanese.
- Failure to put the first three words into the dialog when selecting English text typed with a Japanese font and opening the Mark... dialog.
- Inability to type in Japanese in the "Save As..." dialog.
- Crashing when the System script is Japanese, and the user selects some text and chooses "New Abbreviation".
- The "File->File Access" submenu not working properly in Japanese if user has any last-used files or essential files.
- The Catalog failing to display some items if the System script is Japanese.
- Inability to type in Japanese if the "tmTE INIT" is NOT in the Extensions Folder and user has chosen "Gloss..." (problem may be present with any dialog).
- Incorrect measurement of Korean two-byte characters.
- "Garbage" appearing in "Hebrew" page numbering in other fonts in the Hebrew system.
- Some items cut off in "Word Count" dialog when either the Arabic or Hebrew script is loaded, but not both, and Japanese is not loaded.
- Page numbering in "AbgadHawaz" not working if the System script is anything other than Arabic (the same problem appearing with some other numbering systems).
- Improper display of Hebrew text, e.g. returns not breaking paragraphs.
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4.05:
- Defined Styles duplicated to due an Append Copy bug.
- Sounds not being located when copying a file to a new hard drive.
- Crashing with Define Numbers dialog and floating windows.
- Conflict between TSM (the JLK and CLK floating palettes) and the Nisus Floating Tool Bars which causes a crash.
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4.01:
- The 24 bit problem (involving the comparing of data).
- A random crash caused by the internal memory manager.
- Problem with highlighting Editions.
- The line number in the "info" bar being off by one on any other page than the first if that page contained a header.
Additions
- 4.06:
- Keyboard equivalents for "Find Text Only" and "Replace Text Only".
- "Enable Hebrew Ligatures" option in Editing Preferences dialog now prevents incorrect line breaks (due to a a Hebrew font bug).
- Support for Russian "Smart Quotes".
- Russian spelling dialog for the Russian spelling checker.
- Support for "Date Formats"in the "Date and Time" Control Panel.
- Capability to save a Nisus New File with specific font selections for multiple scripts.
- Support for the 1-byte, 2-byte, and Roman items in the "Convert" menu for the Chinese script.
- Support for the American Heritage Dictionary, etc., for SoloWriter.
- Cross referencing to a footnote number (as in Nisus 3.4).
Removals
- 4:03: AIC Internal Compression due to random crashes.
Incompatibilities
- See Update Database for unresolved problems.
Notes
- See the Update Database for information on problems not yet resolved.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Nisus Software Inc.
QUED/M 2.7.2
Needs: QUED/M 2.7x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Updated "QUED/M CodeWarrior Instructions" and Balloon Help.
Additions
- Reporting of all CodeWarrior compile/link errors/warnings in a QUED/M messages window (only for CodeWarrior 1.2 found on CW5).
- "CW Run With Debugger" command to launch Metrowerks' debugger when running an application.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
No Hands Software
Common Ground MiniViewer 1.1.3
Needs: -
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- Erratum: this update was incorrectly labeled 1.0.3 in the November 94 issue.
Vendor's ftp site.
Now Software
Now Utilities 5.01
Needs: Now Utils 5.0
Update Type: Installer
Changes
- Now QuickFiler:
- Now Find is much faster.
- Option-clicking the close box closes all Now QuickFiler windows.
- Inspecting a single folder or volume now shows its contents directly, rather than its parent folder's.
- Transparent compression code is now installed by default (user's drives are still not selected by default, so idle-time compression will not begin compressing them automatically).
Fixes
- Now Installer:
- Macintosh Drag & Drop being installed under inappropriate System versions.
(Note! LEVEL 6 Computing has uncovered a bug with this fix. Now Installer 5.01 will delete the extension "Dragging Enabler" which is used to provide Drag & Drop support with System 7.1. If you are using the Dragging Enabler extension, you must protect it (duplicate or Stuff) before running the Now Installer or it will be deleted. The symptom is that the user will not be able to move any file or folder in the Finder).
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Now FolderMenus:
- Improper menu pop-up when dragging from a window to a folder on a PowerBook 540c or using a Daystar Accelerator Card.
- Folder contents not always listed in a sub-menu.
- FolderMenus prevent changing of desktop pattern.
- Arrows not being displayed when custom fonts are used for folders.
- Arrows disappearing after a volume is opened by double-clicking.
- Background colors not being properly updated in the folder menus if user has customized their Mac with a screen colorizer.
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Now Menus:
- After Dark causing custom menu icons to disappear.
- The Control key releasing a pulled-down menu before a hot key can be assigned.
- Menu drag-and-drop features working inconsistently with ResEdit and other similar tools.
- Crashing at startup on Black-and-white Macs.
- Novell items being listed chronologically instead of alphabetically.
- Worksets not opening Word and ALL documents in the workset with MS Word 5.1a.
- Inappropriate error warnings from Worksets with MS Project 3.0 and MS Excel 4.0.
- QuicKeys' Process Switch extension not working properly with Now Menus' Auto-Hide feature.
- Conflict between Memory Sizer and Connectix' RAM Doubler.
- Color choices in the Edit menu of FirstClass appearing as grey boxes.
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Now Profile:
- Finding duplicates on only the startup drive.
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Now QuickFiler:
- Now Find label pop-up incorrectly reflecting the names of the current labels.
- Incompatibility with Datebook Pro.
- QuickFiler menu appearing only in At Ease and not the Finder.
- Problem between idle-time compression and an open copy of QuickMail 3.0.
- Transparently-compressed files not staying compressed in DiskLock and DiskFit Pro backups.
- Crash when switching back to Now Contact in some circumstances.
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Now Super Boomerang:
- MS Word 6.0 OLE extension causing erratic, tough-to-reproduce crashes.
- Incompatibility with Image Assistant GS.
- Importing JPEG images not disabled when QuickTime is not loaded.
- Cosmetic glitch with ClarisWorks 3.0.
Now Scrapbook: Not always reopening the last catalog on launch.
- Print difficulties with some imported EPS files.
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Now Startup Manager:
- Changing startup sets from the sub-menu depending on first selecting a startup drive.
- Conflict isolation report displaying incorrect number of INITs loaded.
- PowerTalk extensions and Monitors cdev not being displayed.
- Problem removing Excluded Custom Extensions.
- Unreliability with the Mac Plus.
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Now Save:
- Key Capture saving copied text in duplicate.
- Adding the Now Save command to MS Word's File menu "messing up" Word's non-standard menu definitions.
- Configuration changes made from the Add New Application dialog not being remembered.
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Now WYSIWYG Menus:
- Various incompatibilities with Word 6 and WordPerfect 3.1.
Additions
- Now Menus:
- Attach Application Windows appends a sub-menu to the Active Applications list.
- Tune Submenus.
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Now Startup Manager:
Notes
- If you have run AIC on any of the Now Utilities modules you must expand them before running the updater. See Update Database for additional notes for Now Utilities users.
Olduvai Corporation
MultiClip PRO 3.1.6
Needs: MultiClip PRO 3.1.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Internal structure changes to allow easier Kanji localization.
Fixes
- Various unspecified third party compatibility issues.
Notes
- Application version 3.1.3, MultiClip INIT version 3.1.6.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
OptImage Interactive Services
CD-IT!ALL 2.5.2
Needs: CD-IT!ALL 2.5.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Unreliability of Philips CDD522/Kodak PCD225 driver with older Macintosh models.
Additions
- Integrated Video CD recording option.
- Capability to copy part of a hard disk or CD-ROM by specifying start block and recording size.
- Support for JVC XR-W2001.
- ISO 9660 builder now allows extensions to directory names.
Pixel Resources, Inc.
PixelPaint Pro 3.02
Needs: PixelPaint Pro 3.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- The native Power Mac 3.02 version is available only as a complete application. Both the 680x0 patch and Power Mac version are distributed on disk only to registered users via mail.
Changes
- Virtual memory improvements, speeding up the read/write of information to virtual files on disk.
- Overall speed enhancements, especially in running Pro3 and third-party plug-in filters.
Additions
- Complete compatibility with System 7.5, including support for AppleScript, ColorSync, Macintosh Drag & Drop, and QuickTime.
- Native support for Power Mac.
Prairie Group, Inc., The
DiskTop 4.5.2
Needs: DiskTop 4.5.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- DiskTop crashing which leaves a thin strip of window containing the column heading buttons (interference from System 7.5's Apple Menu Options extension).
Qualcomm, Inc.
Eudora 2.1.1
Needs: Eudora 2.1/1.5
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- A similar updater exists for the 1.5 shareware version.
Changes
- Different method of finding system folder.
- Initial colons now matched by filters (2.1.1).
- Ignores more headers.
Fixes
- Transliteration menu disappearing when opening 2nd settings file.
- International characters causing sorting problems with quick recip. list.
- Incorrect priorities being checked in message pop-ups.
- Kerberos causing crashes when sending mail (2.1.1).
- Conflict with certain disk drivers (-48 error on startup).
- UUCP corrupt attachment.
- Confusion of Windows menu by Signature windows.
- Unnecessary disk access when message opens completely behind other windows.
- Failure to recognize aliases to applications in text file creator dialog.
- Looping when reading broken attachments from UUCP maildrop.
- Problems with:
- Wrap selection.
- Window zooming for mailboxes that get mail added to them.
- Nickname file alias resolution.
- Mail sent notification (1.5.1).
- Windows menu.
- Nickname expansion with default domain.
- Repetitive Find strings and ends of messages.
- Compaction of aliases to other volumes.
- "Save As" error alert.
- Renaming nickname in alternate file (2.1.1).
- Desktop margins help items.
- Emptying trash that contains an open message.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Quark, Inc.
QuarkXPress 3.31r2
Needs: QuarkXPress 3.3
Update Type: Updater/Patch
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- Quark 3.31r1 was sent to only a small number of customers. Users successfully running 3.31r1 do not need to upgrade as there are no changes to the program.
Fixes
- Failure of installer to update some copies of 3.3 to 3.31.
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