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WELCOME TO THE PAGESTREAM 3.3a UPDATE! December 18,1997
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Choose Scripts/View ReadMe.Now to read this from within PageStream3.
(Requires ARexx.)
Welcome to PageStream 3.3a!
While the release of 3.3 was pretty solid, a couple items have caused us
to need to put this 3.3a out sooner than I would have hoped. The biggest
problem to date as been the random trashing of memory when pasting or
inserting text. However, since this version is strictly built upon the
feature set of 3.3, it should be a pretty solid improvement over 3.3.
Also, we have spent a large amount of time just fixing bugs and improving
the little things that make for a more well rounded program.
CHANGES FROM 3.3 to 3.3a
------------------------
TEXT:
* Fixed new bug in 3.3 that would randomly crash when pasting/importing text.
* Type size no longer disappears when editing Paragraph Styles if width is
not defined.
* Find/Replace will now change mouse to busy pointer.
* Fixed location problem when finding/scrolling through text across pages
that have not been viewed and therefor not formatted yet.
* When changing the chapter and page numbering, chapter and page number
variables will now update.
* When document name is changed, chapter name variables at the document
level will now update.
* <No Font> in styletags will no longer actually set the font to <No Font>
but instead leave the font as it was like it should. Also, old documents
should now get fixed when loaded.
* The character (,<,{, and [ will now cause smart quotes to open when
flowing those characters.
* Double clicking on a space or near the end of a word works better now.
* Smart quotes will now use an open quote when following a dash, en-dash,
or em-dash.
* Text columns can now have a gutter of 0 or near 0 without locking up.
* Select word/line/paragraph/column/all will now show a busy pointer.
* Changed Leading keyboard shortcut from Control = (which conflicted with
non-breaking hyphen) to Control g.
* Text marks in frameless text objects can now be used.
* Fixed refresh of text when typing in article on the pasteboard.
* Page and chapter counts will no longer show a preceding dash.
* Fixed bug with text with slanted shadow.
OBJECTS:
* Fixed problem resizing textobjects that contain multiple size text.
* When a document is loaded, external pictures will check if FPO needs to be
updated.
* If the FPO is updated when a document is loaded, the document changed status
will be set.
* Fixed enforcer hit when pasting an object at a user specified location.
* Hopefully fixed problem with releasemask.
* Fixed enforcer hit(s) when distributing objects.
* Fixed distribute via spacing with respect to middle/center or right/bottom.
* Can group/ungroup on the pasteboard.
* Can reshape arcs on the pasteboard.
* Can draw paths and freehand paths on the pasteboard.
* Can resize textobjs on the pasteboard.
* Can no reshape grids on the pasteboard.
* Unfound external pictures will not generate enforcer hits now.
* Moving the rotate about point for a rotated object will no longer cause
the object to move.
* Bitmap, EPS, text object, & path object's rotate about point is now visible
when selected with the rotate tool.
* Resizing frameless text objects with style tags works properly now (it
overrides the text size of the style tag).
* Grids of 0 width or height or display intervals of 0 are no longer allowed.
LINEFILL:
* Fixed problem with old documents that tried to make use of multiple strokes
per line.
* Clicking on a selected tab in Line/Fill will not show it deselected now.
* Arrow4 will now work on screen and to non-PostScript. Hurray! Last arrow!
DOCUMENTS:
* Fixed rearranging chapters whose starting chapter number is >1.
* Pasting/Placing text columns in chapters will no longer loose the text
it contains.
* Moving chapters in and out of chapters should now work.
* Insert, delete, and move pages page numbers start at the starting page
number now. For relative page numbers, type a !,@,#,$, or % at the start
or end of the page number (ie, to delete the 4th page in a chapter which
starts at page 15, you can use the page number string of "18", or "!4").
This is the same as goto page.
* Page numbers which fall before the first page will be forced to the first
page.
* Page/Chapter/Mark/etc numbers no longer display nothing when the command
doesn't make sense but instead displays a dash (-). Ie, chapter numbers
at the root document level, or previous page numbers on the first page, etc.
* Page palette will now show the old page number after a insert/move/delete
of pages behind the new page number. To reset the old page number to the new
page number, close and reopen the page palette.
MISC:
* Added shift(or alt or ctrl) click on a link will open a new window for that
link.
* Busy requesters now will appear only when the task will take more than
a few seconds. This _should_ elliminate those pesky flashing busy requestors
that don't stay up long enough to tell you anything.
* Eyedropper tool will be empty first time you use it.
GENERAL PRINTING:
* Scale to fit will now handle autolandscaped pages correctly.
* Tiling will now handle autolandscaped pages correctly.
* Spot colors used exclusivly in text was not getting picked up in the plate
list. However, if the spot color was used in an object, the text would
sep properly.
* Pages which contain only non-printing objects are now considered blank pages
that are not printed when "Print blank pages" is turned off.
* EPS and PICT objects with stroked outlines will now print the outline in the
proper place.
* Plate Control now deals with starting pages other than 1 properly
* Print Range can now have spaces( ), commas(,), colons(:) or semicolons(;) to
seperate individual pages, and dash(-) to show a range as before. Spaces
around a dash(-) are ignored.
* Print Range page numbers can use !@#$% set absolute page numbers like in
goto, delete, insert, and move pages.
POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
* Fixed problem with colorized output of bitmaps.
* Fixed font unloading so that Unlimited fonts can be printed.
* Added fall back code for mirror/negative code when using built in PPD
commands.
* Fixed disappearing text on landscape pages.
NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
INTERFACE:
* When changing the chapter numbering, the document palette will now update.
* Save Template now says "Save Template" not "Save Document".
* Toolbox tools in toolbar now works correctly and won't mess up other
toolbar items.
* Duplicate Line & Fill items removed from toolbar item list.
* Note tool shows with proper icon now.
* 3 Column tool no longer sets 2 column tool.
* Editing the window display mode of the non-current window will now set
the mode for the proper window and not the current window.
SCRIPTING:
** new parameters to SETSTYLETAG. [][]
FILTERS:
* Added 2 new language modules. Srpski & Magyar (Hungarian).
* Speed improvement in loading of documents using IFF DOC, objects
using IFF ILUS, text using IFF CTXT, and bitmaps using IFF ILBM.
* Fixed problem with EPS filter and IFF ILUS that would cause some
documents with EPS to fail to load.
* Fixed PCX export filter.
* Fixed exporting of boxes and other closed shapes to IllustratorEPS.
They would load back into PageStream fine, but Illustrator and Freehand
gave strange results.
* Tiles.effect has been renamed to Tile.effect. It is now faster, and
can have 4x the number of tiles, and has a better interface.
* ReduceNoise.effect and Negative.effect can now be stopped.
* Gamma.effect has been given a new interface, increased max value,
and fixed a rounding error that would give bad results sometimes.
* ProPage Document filter- fixed bad behaviour with multlple copies of
the same graphics. Reversed horz and vert grid divisions.
* WordPerfect- Added support for extended character set.
BME:
* Effects shown are now translated GUI names. Also, they show ... after
those effects that will display a dialog box.
HHV:
* Fixed scrollbar problem in HHV.
* HHV can now cope with a missing pref file.
AMIGA:
* Some minor changes to the Preferences driver that may fix some custom
paper size problems.
* Added custom sizes to all HP printers. If the printer is not capable of
actually setting a custom size on it, the driver will instead pick the
best match, and leave the data in the upper left corner of the true
paper size.
* Fixed CG engine to properly deal with fonts that do not contain fi/fl
ligature.
* Fixed CG engine to allow printing of large text sizes again.
* Fixed crashing in FARGO printer driver.
* Made some changes the might improve printing to Epson Stylus 1520 to tabloid
paper.
* Fixed crash when choosing HP Deskjet 1200C (XPD was missing white space
between two options). Fixed XPD and module.
* All HP XPD files had compression turned off. Back on for those that support
compression.
* Fixed screen popup unghosting in HP printer driver when selecting a new model.
* Screen Prefs-Save will not save the data, even if nothing changed.
* Halftone dithering to non-square dpi devices improved.
* Very large halftone cells (created be low frequence and or high dpi devices)
will no longer cause problems, it will just be forced to the max allowable.
* Fixed Epson Stylus Color Floyd-Steinberg problem print problem.
* Fixed enforcer hits with that occured in several of the bitmap effects.
MAC:
* Can now enter newlines into multiline string controls.
* Characters larger than the screen can now be displayed and printed to
non-PostScript (always worked to PostScript).
* Apple Open Recent is now supported.
* Fixed bug that prevented downloaded fonts from downloading to PostScript.
* Added new Font control that let you type to match fonts, and supports black
font names for entering no font in Bullet font type, and style tags fonts.
* Added new rotate & paste mouse forms.
* Added missing strings for Reports.
* Fixed screwed up style tags.
* Fixed B&W display of new font control, and fixed the display of disabled
controls.
* A few mysterious printing problems have been stomped.
* Multiline alerts will no longer show "\n" in the text.
* Improved output color quality. Seems that the output was being limited to
the screen depth so that B&W displays could not print in color etc. Fixed!
Welcome to PageStream 3.3!
After nearly a year in the works, this version is the 3rd largest update
we have ever produced, and the largest .x update. We think you will agree
this version has been worth the wait.
What's new in PageStream3.3:
- Fly Out Tools
Tools have now been grouped together in "popup" like icon list that let
you switch between tools quickly. This gave us the "screen space" we needed
to give you more tools. Also, by grouping them together it does so in a way
that makes it easier to use.
The new tools are:
- Rotation Tool
This new tool is now grouped with Object Tool, Reshape Tool, and the Crop
tool. What does it do? It lets you finally set the rotation point of
object(s), and if you grab and object you can rotate it right on screen!
You can also slant/twist with keyboard qualifiers!
- 1,2,&3 Column Tool
Now you can switch between the 3 most common column counts in a text
frame without changing your prefs.
- Note tool
Create a yellow non-printing column much like a sticky note for your
notes. This will of course not print.
- Scallop, Bevel, Insert Box Tool
The rounded corner box and these are now grouped with the box tool. Pick
a corner type from the toolbox and draw away.
- Star, Wavy, Scallop, Puffy Polygon Tool
Like the above two, you can quickly switch between drawing these polygon
types without changing your prefs between them or drawing it as one type
and changing it to another.
In the future we hope to add a few more useful polygon types such as gears.
- Grid Tool
Yea, it was in a 3.2a beta for awhile, but there was no room for it and
borders. While you could always get to it via macros or the configurable
toolbar in 3.2, now its always there and "official". In the future we will
group some other object types with this as a sort of Misc group.
- Define Font Substitution
Big time feature! Load an old document and if it uses a font you don't
have it will let you know what fonts are in use that you don't have
installed and give you a chance to replace those fonts with another
font or just display it in another font but retain the orginal font.
Loading a document from another machine or even from another platform
has never been easier and more comforting.
- HTML Help
Now we can have the same help files between Mac and Amiga. Also, we can
supply our help files with more content like we used to do, and better yet
provide pictures where it helps.
In the future, we hope to add interactive help and more.
- Improved Adobe Illustrator Import/Export filter
The old Illustrator filter left much to be desired. Now you can
export to Illustrator and expect it to keep as much as possible when
importing into another application that supports Illustrator files.
- RTF Text Export
Now you can exchange files with WordPerfect PC or Microsoft Word with
most of the formatting intact.
- 2.2 Style Place Graphics
With the changes necessary for Font Subsitition, it makes it easier for
us to return the old favorite 2.2 style placing of graphics. While you can
configure PageStream to still place graphics automatically in the center of
the screen like it works now in PageStream, if you want you can set it to
allow direct placing and scaling of the graphics before it is placed on
the page. For those not familiar with PageStream2, after the graphic is
imported, you get a paste mouse cursor. When you click on the page it places
the upper left hand corner of the graphic where you clicked. If you click
and drag the mouse, you actually define the "frame" that the graphic is
scaled to fit into.
- Automatic Text Frame "Like" Toggle
When you import text with Auto Text Frames on, any overflow text will be
placed into columns created on blank pages. Before, it always created them
the same as the Masterpage margins/column count & gutter specified. Now you
can also choose to have the new columns created with the same coordinates,
count and gutter (and even the same color!) as the last column in the
article.
- PostScript Style Dash Line
You can still define line dash styles using the old familiar bitmap
on/off mannor, but you can now also describe the individual dash lengths
as you do in PostScript and applications such as Adobe Illustrator and
ProDraw.
- Set Type Language Submenu
Installed languages are now in a submenu in the Type menu. Select one of
these and you page numbers, dates, times and hyphenation will change to
reflect that language if you didn't specify it in the afore mentioned
attributes. Language can also be set in the Attributes dialog box, and
can be defined for paragraph and character style tags.
- DPI Calculator
A little script for those DPI impared users! Basically, you type in the
x/ydpi that you want the selected picture scaled to and it does the
calculation and scales the picture for you.
- Improved Color Palette
- Tint
Set the percentage tint for the color directly from the palette.
- From/To Color
Gradient to colors can now be set directly from the palette.
- Swatches
Small swatches in the color palette now let you identify what the color
looks like.
(* Note: For users with low color depth this function is pretty worthless.
Unless you are in at least 32 colors, and hopefully 256 or 24bit,
forget it!)
- Auto Page Orientation
Yea! Now you can mix landscape/portrait in a single document and print
at once. Better yet, stop changing your printer prefs everytime you print
a landscape document. Let PageStream do the work.
- Drag Duplicate
When your moving a object(s) with the Object Tool, or rotating them with
the Rotate Tool, hold down the Alt (or Option) key and when you let go of
the mouse button your original object will still be in the same place, but
a duplicate will be placed in the new location.
- Tab/Shift-Tab cycle through objects
Pressing Tab/Shift-Tab cycles through the objects on the current page.
- New toolbar buttons for view pictures/drawings/column outline/text
framelinks/invisibles
Turn pictures on and off with ease again!
- Chapters can now be moved into and out of parent chapters
If you change the structure of your document you don't have to start
over now. Add and remove chapter levels on the go.
- Pages can be moved from a document to a new chapter
Create a document and decide you need chapters? No problem now.
- Set screen frequency/angle/spot function for Halftone dither to
non-PostScript printers
Thats right, now non-PostScript users can set all this (and more). 10dpi
line spot functions for those special effects, or set the freq/angle for
each ink on your color printer to finally get the best color you can.
** Flash ** Now you can also set a gamma for each ink and UCR/GCR for
the RGB to CYMK conversion. Set them in the XPD pref file or just
"customize" it in the print setup requester.
- Improved Ordered and FS dither options to provide a better range of grays
to high res printers. Now the Ordered and FS dithers use a bigger cell
size when you print at higher resolutions.
What does this mean? Less banding on your gradients and more
recognizable shades of gray/color
- Mirror, Negative, Thumbnail, Crop & Reg marks, and color seps to
non-PostScript
I can't say that I agree with the use of several of these, but you
wanted it, so you got it! At least thumbnails is _very_ nice!
- Colorize B&W or Grayscale pictures. Print them on a specific spot plate.
Scan a black and white logo and change it to a spot color if you want!
Make it red! It will print that way, and if its a spot color it will
print on that spot plate!
- Load/Save printer prefs
Switch between printers quickly. Just load/save miniprefs from the
printer pref folder. Now you can switch between your color inkjet, black
and white laser, and setup for printing to disk for an imagesetter without
looking for those scraps of paper with the right settings for each.
- Preview color seps on screen
Just shift-select the name of the view in the hide or show submenus in
the window menu and now you can not only rename the view like before, but
you can also show the color plates one at a time to make sure you have
right spot colors or overprint/knockout options set!
- HP driver now supports user editable XPD file
Add new resolutions or tweak defaults without waiting for an update from
us.
- External pictures FPOs are now saved with the document
When you load a document you don't have to wait to display those
external pictures while it rebuilds the FPO!
- Easier reselection of moved external pictures
If you ever reorganized your external pictures, you know what a pain it
is to tell PageStream where those 50 pictures went. Now, it remembers where
you helped it find each "lost" graphic and looks there for others before
asking you where they went!
- Unsupported accent characters get displayed as unaccented
Not every font supports every accented character. Now if it can't find
the accented character it will use the unaccented character.
- Total object count shown in Report...
Get a general idea how your document is shaping up.
- Configurable Paper and DPI list in new ILBM XPD file
Now you can set configure the ILBM printer driver for any DPI or paper
size you want.
- When defining Bullet character; and Tab fill and align on character,
select from a list using a requester similar to the insert character\
requester, say goodbye to typing strange unicode characters to access
characters not found in the standard system fonts but that are
handled by PageStream and its font engines.
This is the short list. There are of course countless bug fixes and speed
enhancements, but this covers what I can remember for features that we are
committed to. The details of some of these things are far more impressive
in real life, but that is what the betas are all about. You get to try it
"hands on" and we get some feedback.
Enjoy!
Deron Kazmaier
SoftLogik Publishing Corp.
PS- We have included the borders extension and 5 sample borders to give you
an idea how it works. We hope your as taken with this extension as we
are.
CHANGES FROM 3.2b TO 3.3
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TEXT:
- Text marks with accented characters in their name now show in the Insert
Text Mark Name and Page Number popups properly.
- Internal changes for loading/saving of styletags for support on other
platforms.
- Improved text processing on loading/importing of text.
- Numerous text attributes that only made sense with positive numbers would
choke on negative numbers. In these cases negative numbers are now forced
into a sensible range or ignored.
- Inserted revision version number variables always showed 1.0 (ie, the first
revision version number). Now shows the version number to the _last_
revision.
- Fixed editing of custom color for text.
- Page Break command will now cause and overflow, and force the auto-creation
of pages when importing text if that option is on.
- Arrows in edit palette for leading now work for fixed leading.
- Smart open single/double quotes inside of open single/double quotes fixed.
- Fixed shift-text select across multiple pages/frames.
- Fixed cursor placement in multicolumn frames.
- Saving of default font/size & language fixed. It saved it but you had to
reload to make it take effect.
- When editing a column that is overflowed, if the column is no longer over
flowing the overflow indicator is now properly removed.
+ Tab Align To and Leader character, and Paragraph Bullet character have
a selector like Insert Character which lets you choose the character
visually from a list. New in 3.3!
+ Type Language- Now quickly set the language of your text used for long dates,
times, page numbers. Can now be set via the Language submenu, in Attributes
dialog box, and also in Paragraph and Character style tags. New in 3.3!
+ Added "Select Text on Paste" toggle to File Preferences. Now text can
be selected or not after inserting/pasting. New in 3.3!
+ Added Like Masterpage/Previous toggle to Automatic Text Frames. When set
to Like Masterpage, the automatic text frame will be positioned to mimic
the Masterpage using its margins and column count/gutter. When set to
Like Previous, the automatic text frame will be positioned to match the
last previously created text frame in the article. New in 3.3!
OBJECTS:
- Drawing & Picture x-box place holders are now clipped by the mask.
- Picture stroke now displays properly.
- Can edit zero height and/or width objects without lockup now.
- Duplicated external pictures will show the proper resolution in the
Information dialog box.
- Fixed edit palette rotate button directions for multiple selected objects
in object mode. It was rotating the opposite direction from the other
edit palettes.
- An object first moved to the pasteboard and then the move undone will no
longer move to never never land but will move to the proper old location.
- Objects on dissolved spreads will now be placed on the page where the center
of the object lies and not the upper left hand corner as before.
- Fixed making/generating/releasing of masks for resized graphics.
- Fixed distribution in bounding box for centered and right/bottom edge.
+ B&W and Grayscale pictures can now be colored using object fill color.
New in 3.3!
+ When dragging object(s) with the object tool, pressing and holding ALT will
create a copy when releasing the mouse. The mouse form will change the a
the paste icon to indicate a duplicate will be made. New in 3.3!
+ New editing tool: Rotation tool. Free rotate selected objects by grabing
their size handles or any portion of the object and rotating them. Also,
the rotation point can now be selected and moved with the rotation tool.
When rotating a object(s), holding down the ALT key will create a duplicate
object rotated to the new orientation. Pressing Shift or Control while
rotating will slant or twist. To set the rotate about point, either
numerically set it using the edit palette, or click and drag the rotate
about point visually. New in 3.3!
+ Magnify Tool can now drag zoom from center or from corner. Definable
in prefs, and shift key will live toggle when drag zooming. New in 3.3!
+ New drawing tool: Note tool. Located with column tools. Creates a yellow
non-printing column for entering in notes much like a sticky note.
New in 3.3!
+ Added "Place Graphic in Center" toggle to File Preferences. When checked
graphics will be automatically placed/pasted in center of view. When _not_
checked user will need to place the graphic with the mouse. Drag out to
define region to fit graphic to. Only the toggle has been added.
No code behind it yet! New in 3.3!
LINEFILL:
- Adding/Removing colors would screw up from or to colors popups for
gradients fills.
+ Added support for defining line style using PostScript dashed style lines
in addition to existing pattern in line/fill for objects and text.
New in 3.3!
DOCUMENTS:
- Selecting and editing a page other than the current page using the page
palette will now edit the proper page.
- Fixed sorting of revisions in the Report.
- Defining page # prefixs for a new chapter no longer sets it for the
chapter # prefix as well.
+ Font substitution. Documents, text, or graphics loaded which contain
text which use fonts not recognized, will result in a dialog box with the
list of unknown fonts and present the choice to display as a different
font or replace the references. New in 3.3!
+ Revision Changes can now specify a version number of the revision,
with defaults to bump minor (same as before), plus bump major, and
custom. New in 3.3!
+ Chapters can now be moved into and out of parent chapters using the
document palette. New in 3.3!
+ When creating a new chapter, holding down SHIFT key when choosing OK
will move pages from the document into the new chapter. New in 3.3!
MISC:
- When first loading PageStream, if duplicate modules are found, a list
will be presented with all the duplicate modules found. The user must
remove any old or duplicate modules before PageStream can be loaded.
Simply changing the name of a module is not suficient to disable
loading. It must be moved to another directory or deleted.
+ All new help files. New HTML Help Viewer. Bookmark pages, inline screenshots
and more. New in 3.3!
GENERAL PRINTING:
- Inline objects are not properly accounted for in the print progress
meter.
+ Paper orientation is automatically adjusted to best fit page orientation.
New in 3.3!
POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- Fixed printing of stroked/filled text that caused the stroked text to
extend further than the filled text.
- Driver will now attempt to print clear line styles. It will usually
work, and never lock up. It kinda cheats to support this, but then
again, PostScript doesn't really support it, and who would really
want to do this anyway...
- Gradient Sin/InvSin/Saw/InvSaw fixed for angle > 90, and the code
was tightened up some and made a little faster.
- Added support for dashed style lines in addition to existing pattern.
- Renamed output options PostScript file to Disk file and EPS file to
EPS disk file
- Fixed orientation problem to imagesetters. Now if you are print a
document that is 17" x 11", for custom you would choose 11"width and
17" height with landscape on, for printing to an imagesetter whose
roll width is < 17". If you printing that document to an imagesetter
whose roll width is >= 17" then you would choose 17" width and
11" height with no landscape.
- "Fixed" problem with screwed up PPDs. Some PPDs (especially the Linotronic
PPD files) specified that Symbols and Dingbats where special encoding,
but had a standard characters set. They should indicate that those fonts
have a special character set as well. The PostScript driver now requires
that the font not be a special encoding in addition to not being a special
character set. The ppds should be fixed but they are not ours to fix. This
fixes the problem just fine however.
- Fixed printing of stroked masked Pictures, Drawings, and EPS.
- Pictures that are not printed on a spot plate (or in the case of a spot
picture on a process plate) are now rendered with a white box instead of
a white bitmap. Big improvement in speed :-)
- Added support for CMYK bitmap output to Level2 PostScript printers.
Before CMYK bitmaps were converted to RGB.
- Added support for color seps of EPS files. Should have worked before.
+ Added auto landscape support. New in 3.3!
+ Added colorized picture support. Includes proper spot color seps of bitmaps.
New in 3.3!
NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- Page height, top & bottom margins now are calculated properly for
non-square aspect ratios.
- Landscape printing of bitmap fills now rotate with the page.
+ HP Printer driver now supports XPD files for simple user updates
for new printers. New in 3.3!
+ Screen frequency/angle/ and spot function can now be set for
halftone dither printing. New in 3.3!
INTERFACE:
- Documents listed in the recent list will be removed at initializiation time
if the document no longer exists or can not be found.
- Masterpages can now be moved between chapters after being created. The
interface tried to let you do it, but it didn't work.
- Text frame routing displays better now on rotated text frames.
- Lines (and unfilled objects) with thick strokes can know be selected by
clicking on any portion of the stroke, not just the centerline.
- If you don't have the window position snapshoted, new windows will now try
and accomidate various toolbar, toolbox, and edit palette positions
automatically.
+ In plate control, clicking on the icons in the list will now toggle that
option as if you had clicked on the popup or check box. New in 3.3!
+ Added toolbar buttons for View-> Show Pictures, Drawings, Column Outline,
Text Frame Links, and Invisibles. New in 3.3!
+ Flyout tools to reduce toolbox size and increase number of available tools.
New in 3.3!
+ New drawing tools: One/Two/Three count columns, Scallop/Inset/Bevel boxes,
Pie ellipse, Star/Scallop/Puffy/Wavy polygons. New in 3.3!
+ Preview color seps on screen. Just shift-select the name of the view in
the hide or show submenus in the window menu and now you can not only
rename the view like before, but you can also show the color plates one
at a time to make sure you have right spot colors. Choose which plate
to display, and weather to force the plate to overprint or knockout.
New in 3.3!
+ Improved color palette. Now set the secondary to color for gradients,
apply tints, and preview the color with the provided color swatches.
New in 3.3!
SCRIPTING:
- Script Palette now will keep the old scripts if you try and load
a illegal script file instead of leaving you with no scripts loaded.
- Internal changes for loading/saving of scripts for support on other
platforms.
- GETTOOLMODE now returns the proper tool mode name.
- Changed DUPLICATE and TRANSFORM command.
Added [IDLIST &idlist/.COUNT.0.1...], and they now return count
of objects created.
- Added [INOBJECT objid [ADD]] and [INARTICLE articleid [ADD]] to
SELECTTEXT command.
- New commands: GETPARAGRAPHSTYLE, GETCHARACTERSTYLE, GETFONT, GETTYPESIZE,
GETTYPEWIDTH, GETBASELINE. The start of the commands to get the current
attributes for selected text. Returns the appropriate data or the string
"MIXED" if the selection contains more than one attribute of that type.
+ New command: MERGESUBPATHS. Turns all but the initial movetos in a selected
path to linetos. New in 3.3!
+ Changed MOVECHAPTER go move chapters to the end of the chapters, and also
to move chapters into and out of other chapters. New in 3.3!
+ Added "FROMDOCUMENT" parameter to NEWCHAPTER command. This parameter will
cause the pages & chapters of the document to be moved into the new
chapter. New in 3.3!
+ Added [DRAGZOOM <CENTER|CORNER>] to SETMAGNIFYINCREMENTS command. New in 3.3!
+ Added [LIKE <MASTERPAGE|PREVIOUS>] to SETAUTOCOLUMNS command. New in 3.3!
+ Added [BITMAPSIZE stem/.W.H.XDPI.YDPI] to GETPICTURE command. New in 3.3!
+ Added new arexx script, PictureCalculator.rexx. The user enters the dpi to
scale the picture too, and it does the rest. New in 3.3!
+ Changed ADDREVISION BUMPREV to BUMPMAJOR and added BUMPMINOR (the default)
New in 3.3!
+ Added [NOTE] parameter to DRAWCOLUMN. Will override the column default fill
and stroke with a sold yellow fill and a dashed black stroke. Will force
the column to non-printing. New in 3.3!
FILTERS:
- IFFILBM: Sped up compression.
- RTF: ANSI files now use Windows character set and not Amiga. This problem
caused some characters to disappear when importing.
- IFFDR2D: Fixed dash stroke style importing.
- ProPage: ProPage document loader returns! New and improved. While line
breaks and the like may change, most of the raw information and formatting
will translate intact. As exceptions are noted I hope to document them
in the online help.
- Added long number support to the Espanol (spanish) module.
+ Added Slovenian language module. This module requires new internals in
PageStream that supports non-standard character mapping. New in 3.3!
+ RTF: Now you can export your text to RTF for importing into many Windows
and Macintosh applications with most formatting preserved. New in 3.3!
BME:
- Fixed paintbrush leaving garabage behind when clearing a region.
- Updated address and phone numbers.
- Internal changes for loading/saving of scripts for support on other
platforms.
- Fixed a problem in the display which caused crashed at various times.
- Crop no longer erase old selection since it was redrawn afterwards
anyway.
- Converting Greyscale/B&W to CMYK will no longer create any color in the
CMY plates, just Black.
AMIGA:
- SendtoPageliner script should now preserve quotes using smart quotes.
- Fixed problem printing to Epson Stylus Color in 600dpi where white
portions of picture would print as light grey.
MAC:
- Scratch path is now used. VM files are written to the path assigned
as the scratch path and no longer are written to the hidden directory
on the startup volume.
- Printer setup values from the standard print dialogs no longer get reset
to the defaults.
- Changing screen modes will no longer confuse PageStream.
- You can now keep the softlogik folder anywhere you want as long as
an alias to it named SoftLogik is kept in the extension folder.
- Fixed a problem with screwed up offsets to non-postscript printers.
- PICT files are now clipped/cropped on screen, and should now print
to non-postscript printers.
NOTES
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- SoftLogik recommends CanonStudio or Studio II for printing on Canon
printers. Some Canon models are supported in Epson emulation mode by
PageStream's custom Epson driver.
PAGESTREAM 3 EXTRAS
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Borders1 Library ($40): Basic Borders. Contains 60 borders, including
coupon, map and symbol designs.
Borders2 Library ($40): Geo Borders. Contains 60 decorative borders in
a variety of designs including nature, classic, and music.
Borders1&2 ($60): Purchase both borders libraries and save $20!
TextFX 2 Extension ($50): Warp text in shapes, bend text on curves, and
convert text to graphics!
TrueType Font Engine ($25): Use TrueType fonts with PageStream 3.
Wordworth Document Filter ($20): Open entire Wordworth documents in
PageStream 3, retaining pictures, text, endnotes, headers, footers,
objects, etc.
Gary's Effects ($25): Twelve new cool effects for PageStream 3's BME,
including Convolve, Blur, Histogram, Gamma, Average, Threshold and more!
Direct Templates ($30): 488 templates for PaperDirect(R)'s North American
papers. If you use PaperDirect papers, you need Direct Templates.
Home & Office Forms ($20): 50 templates for the home, school and office.
North American paper sizes.
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
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As it always seems, after a week "behind the keyboard" you will wonder what's
next! That questions is best answered by you! We have just about got
our Amiga and Macintosh versions in sync, and a major portion of the rest
of this year will probably be devoted to getting the Windows version up to
speed. However, PageStream development will not stop. We are not sure if the
next version will be 3.4, or if we will step on up to 4.0. That answer depends
on feedback from you! We have a never ending list of features that we want to
add, and that have been requested by users. The question is, what would serve
our users best? So send us some feedback. Let us know not only what features
you would like to see, but let us know what you use PageStream for, and
how you use it. Even if you don't know how to make PageStream better, if we
know how and what you use PageStream for, we can use that information to
improve PageStream.
So, send your suggestions and details either by mail, fax, or email. Email
suggestions to feedback@softlogik.com with a subject of "PageStream Feedback".
Send them via mail or fax to SoftLogik Publishing with "PageStream Feedback"
written on the top of the fax or or letter. Please do _not_ ask support
questions or include other items that require a response. If you have a
question, please include them in another email, letter, or fax. Thanks!
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