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WELCOME TO PAGESTREAM 3.0h2 OCT 12, 1995
=======================================================================
Choose Macros/View ReadMe.Now to read this from within PageStream3.
(Requires ARexx.)
CHANGES FROM 3.0h TO 3.0h2
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TEXT:
- Implemented buffered typing for greater speed!
- Implemented Undo for most text operations! Note that Undo typing
will not undo typing to the last non-typing change, as in most
programs. It will undo the last block of typed characters. This
will change in a future version.
- Implemented the Character Set gadget for importing and exporting
ASCII text. Added a Windows character set option to the popup.
- Fixed clicking at the end of the last line in an article which
caused the attributes to revert to the default.
- Fixed the problem with phony 'cursors' appearing on blank lines
and at ends of lines when drag selecting text.
- Fixed the redraw problem with backspacing in kerned or tracked
text. (Parts of letters were not erased.)
- Fixed the redraw problem with moving kerned or tracked frameless
text objects. (Parts of the rightmost character were not erased.)
- Corrected cursor placement with tabs. It will now place the cursor
on the side of the tab you click on, instead of always on the
right.
- Fixed the use of multiple tabs when custom tab stops had not been
created.
- Fixed scaling of PostScript ABF screen fonts. (They were not being
scaled to match the type size.)
- Fixed the rotation of Soft-Logik bitmap fonts. They are no longer
offset incorrectly, and they're faster now too. PostScript bitmap
fonts no longer get offset incorrectly, but they may still scale
incorrectly.
- Fixed move to end of line (Shift Right Arrow) when the line was
ended with a New Line instead of a New Paragraph.
- Fixed the leading grid option. It still uses global preferences
instead of document preferences, but no longer causes crashes.
- Fixed the cursor position problem on lines with manual kerning.
- Fixed the problem with the Ok gadget not unghosting in the Manual
Kern requester.
- Corrected the icons for tabs to match other programs. The left and
right icons were backwards from the standard set by others.
- Fixed the undesirable snapping of tabs to the nearest 1/16th of an
inch when they were selected in the Tabs requester.
- Adjusted text highlighting for kerned and tracked text, so that it
now highlights text in a visually correct manner, even though it
was technically correct before.
- Fixed the monospaced tracking problem with the narrowest character
in a font not being monospaced.
- The Line/Fill button in the toolbar now works for text when the
Text tool is selected.
- Added a Ctrl C mnemonic for unicode 8216 (quote single left): 'l
- Added a better Ctrl C mnemonic for unicode 8217 (quote single
right): 'r (You can still use the old mnemonic listed in the
manual.)
OBJECT MANIPULATION:
- Increased the speed of the Group command by approximately 1000%.
- Implemented external drawing objects.
- Line/Fill attributes can no longer be applied to groups. (In prior
versions, they were applied to the group's bounding box. In the
future we plan to allow Line/Fill attributes applied to groups to
be applied to the group's subobjects, as in v2.2, but for now, it
is simply disabled to avoid confusion.)
- Changed the way drawings and compound objects work, so that
attributes such as rotation are applied to the object, not to its
subobjects. This makes it considerably faster, and allows external
drawings to be rotated and scaled without affecting the external
file.
- Fixed the problem with outlines for rotated drawing objects.
- Undo resizing of a frameless text object now works as expected.
- Fixed resizing of paths end over end. The width and height remain
positive now.
- Fixed the crash bug with 0 copies and Transform. It now works as
documented in the manual.
- Fixed Distribute so that it no longer takes the line thickness
into account when calculating the bounding box.
- Fixed Distribute so that Left/Center Right distribution place all
objects inside the bounding box.
- Added more busy pointers when applicable for object manipulation.
POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- Fixed the problem with printing DMF (and some other fonts) to
PostScript level 1 printers.
- If you couldn't get special characters to print on your PostScript
printer, they should print now. A number of PPD files for popular
printers are lacking two mandatory parameters. PageStream will now
default to the most likely value if the parameters are missing.
- Monospaced tracking now prints correctly.
- Fixed printing of compound objects. (ProDraw and ProPage files use
compound objects.)
- Fixed printing of gradient filled text shadows. Note that shape
filled shadows will print as solid at this time.
- EPS files printed to disk no longer have an EOF, even if "Include
EOF" is on. The EOF caused problems when PageStream3 generated EPS
files were printed from some PC and Mac programs such as XPress
and PageMaker.
NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- Fixed printing of gradient fills with landscape orientation.
OPEN/SAVE/IMPORT/EXPORT:
- Increased the speed of importing drawings by approximately 1000%.
- Increased the speed of loading documents with drawings by
approximately 1000% for the portion of the load time related to
the drawings.
- Fixed the crash problem when saving files with names longer than
30 characters.
- Fixed the problem with Black coming in as Black.1 from Art
Expression EPS files.
- Fixed the problem with documents being saved in the wrong
directory.
- Fixed the paragraph spacing problem when opening ProPage
documents.
- Improved the speed of loading and saving IFF ILBM and PCX
pictures.
- Made the TIFF filter import files with extra Photoshop channels.
The channels will be ignored, but the files can now be imported.
MISCELLANEOUS:
- When you place the insertion point and then choose the Object
tool, the text object will now be selected instead of the
previously selected object. It now works the same as PageStream2.
- Fixed the annoying problem with rounding errors when scrolling
the screen. (Parts of the screen would appear 1 or 2 pixels off.)
- Fixed the problem with creating more than 10 documents, chapters,
master pages or colors all based on the same name. ie, untitled.1,
untitled.2..., in which the numbering went from .10 to .111 to
unusual numbers. This could potentially crash the program, and
was most noticeable in importing ProDraw Clips.
- Fixed the minor problem with small black lines appearing next
to the vertical scroll bar when using the scroll arrow gadgets.
- Added a fractional delay when changing screen modes with the
Settings/Screen command, to ensure that the PageStream3 screen is
shut down before a new one is created. (If the new one was created
before the former is shut down, the second one had to be called
PageStream3.1, which conflicted with some ARexx scripts.)
- The Insert Page, Delete Page and Move Page commands are now
ghosted when you're viewing a master page, because they are not
applicable to this type of page.
- Fixed a keyboard shortcut conflict in the Insert Date requester.
- Opening a new document in a non-English version of PageStream3
will now use the localized name for the term "View" in the
document window titlebar.
- Corrected the Reverse and Shadow icons in the Edit palette which
would switch positions when the insertion point was placed.
- Deleted the Type/Weight command because it was redundant.
- Removed embossing from ruler sub-unit tick marks. This will
reduce flicker for people with non-flicker free displays, and
even fractionally speeds up redraws, without detracting from
the appearance of the rulers.
- Implemented localized unqualified menu shortcuts. (This means that
the keyboard shortcuts should now be correct for the Object menu
in the German version of PageStream3.)
- Made it impossible to use Ctrl shorcuts for grayed out Type menu
commands.
- Printer drivers now use AmigaDOS system alerts rather than custom
alert requesters.
SEND TO EDITOR:
- Fixed the problem with > signs coming back from the editor as >>.
- Double dashes will now come back as en dashes, and triple dashes
as em dashes. Typewriter quotation marks will still not be
converted to typographic quotation marks because this may be
disconcerting to some people.
MACRO SCRIPTS:
- Implemented the Print Signature macro script. Note that it works
differently than documented on page 316 of the manual. Refer to
the help system for details. (Note that it does not yet work with
automatic page numbering; you must number pages manually.)
- Implemented the Find OverSet Text macro script. Note that it
displays the first page it finds with overset text. You should
correct the text and then run the macro again. It will alert you
when there is no overset text.
- Added a new Insert Signature Block macro. This lets you append
your signature block to the end of your letters. The first time
you use it, it will ask you to create your signature block.
- Rewrote the Automatic Text Frame macro script. It now takes an
argument of DEFAULT which will create the new frame with the
master page's margin and column guide values, rather than using
the size of the current frame. The default PageStream3.macros
file's Macros menu command works the same as before, and F4 is
assigned to execute it with the DEFAULT argument. This is useful
if the current frame doesn't match the next page's frame. i.e.,
the first page is a cover sheet, and if you need a second page,
you'd rather not leave room for a letterhead.
- Corrected the Open Template macro data for Avery labels size 5196.
MACROS:
- Fixed the problem with recording some import/export operations.
- New commands: GETSCREENDPI, GETSELECTEDOBJECTS, GETARTICLEOVERSET,
GETARTICLEIDS.
- New parameters: GETCURSOR, GETOBJECT, GETCHAPTERS, CREATECOLUMNS.
- New parameters: EDITTEXTOBJ (requires TextFX extension)
- Increased the speed of the MAKECOMPOUND command by approximately
1000%.
- GETARTICLE FRAMES now starts numbering from 0 rather than 1, to
maintain consistency with other commands.
- Fixed the ARTICLEID parameter in all applicable commands.
- You can now pass arguments to external scripts when executing them
from an internal macro. Syntax: RX "script arg1 arg2..."
PAGELINER:
- Added a missing Settings/Help command to access its help system.
- Added Right Amiga I as a short cut for Project/Insert.
BME:
- Dramatically increased the speed of painting.
- Fixed the problem with recording the setting of the brush size.
- No longers displays a busy pointer after each macro paint action.
- Fixed the problem with black and white being reversed when
converting a B&W picture to color.
- Fixed a potential crash problem when cancelling Convert, or when
converting to the same type and depth.
- New ARexx command: GETSCREENDPI.
WORDWORTH DOCUMENT FILTER:
- This filter is sold separately, but if you own it and have it
installed, it has been updated to the latest version.
- Fixed the problem with landscape documents opening as portrait.
- Fixed the problem with out of order tabs. (PageStream expects tabs
to be sorted, whereas Wordworth saves them in the order they were
created.)
- Fixed the problem with non-filled tabs being imported as tabs
filled with spaces.
TRUETYPE FONT ENGINE:
- This engine is sold separately, but if you own it and have it
installed, it has been updated to the latest version.
- Updated for compatibility with the new TextFX extension.
UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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- Append
- Plate Control
- Find/Replace
- Spell Check, Lookup
- Layout Information
- Facing Pages
- Greek Text
- Text stroke not done to screen/non-PostScript (including Outline)
- Conditional Break
- Object Information
- Trapping
- Text Anchor
- Settings/Typographic
- Settings/Edit Hyphenation
- Settings/Edit Kerning
- Settings/Page palette (Only shows page icons so far.)
- Pen tool (Can only draw basic line segments so far.)
- Reshape tool
- Edit multiple objects with the Edit palette and Object/Edit
- Misc: Fencing, Drop Caps, Widow/Orphan, bitmap fills to screen
/non-PS, multiple strokes, Auto Backup, All/In Use toggles, Undo
for most Object features.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
- You cannot apply colors to text using the Color Palette.
- You cannot customize a type style's color/line/fill attributes
within a style tag.
- The Word, WordPerfect, Illustrator EPS and Freehand EPS filters
are not complete. They work to a limited degree but don't support
all attributes or file versions.
- You can't copy and paste (or duplicate/transform) text frames.
- Resizing rotated objects does not work as expected.
- Rotated text does not work properly.
- Typing past the end of a frame will not advance the cursor to
the next frame if the next frame is on another page.
- Spot colors are separated as process colors. Color seps are not
very good yet.
- Applied bold and italics aren't done for all font types yet.
- Fonts are not uncached when memory is low, and the program can
crash if there isn't sufficient memory to load a font.
- Arrowheads cannot be printed with this version, even though they
did print in 3.0h. This is due to work in progress, sorry.
- Only pictures should be left external at this time.
- You can't drag in the Document Structure palette yet. Click on
the icons to create a chapter or masterpage.
NOTES:
- If you need to force a screen redraw because PageStream didn't
properly redraw the screen, choose Macros/Refresh Window. This
is assigned to F10 as the default.
- For most Canon printers, choose the Epson driver from Printing
Preferences' Type popup gadget.
- The Type/Weight command was removed because it was redundant.
BONUS FEATURES NOT IN THE MANUAL
--------------------------------
- New Emboss and Sharpen effects for BME have been added! Refer to the help
system for information.
- You can now do math in text gadgets in PageStream3. For example, if a
box's left coordinate is 8.125" and you want to move it right by 0.333"
but can't add that in your head, just enter the following into the Edit
palette's appropriate text gadget: 8.125"+0.333. When youpress Tab or
Return, the expression will be evaluated and its sum of 8.458" will
appear in the text gadget. The following math operators are supported:
+ add; - subtract; * multiply; / divide; () parenthetical expressions.
Additionally, `pi' (3.1416...) may be entered.
- Added two new popup gadgets to the Edit palette Character view for type
size and width. This makes changing the type size more convenient.
- Added more preset type sizes and widths to the Font requester scrolling
lists.
- Added four new default page sizes for envelopes and compact discs to
the New Document page size popup gadget. If you have a page size default
request, let us know.
- For large screens only (900-1000 pixels wide): Added Insert Date and
Insert Time icons to the toolbar. If your document window is not wide
enough, you will not be able to see these icons; they are just a bonus
for those with large screens.
- The Undo and Redo commands will change names to reflect what would be
undone or redone. ie, Undo Move, Undo Scale.
- New "Mail Merge" script. See the help system for more information.
- New "Print Font Specimens" (FontSpec.rexx) script. This will print a font
specimen sheet for each font installed in PageStream. (One font per
sheet. An option to print multiple fonts on a sheet will come later.)
- New "Place Graphic At" (PlaceGraphicAt.rexx) script. This will import
graphics in a similar fashion to PageStream2.2. Shift drag to maintain
aspect ratio is supported.
AMIGA NEWS
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NEW: TextFX Extension ($50, or $40 if you own Art Expression): warp
text in shapes, bend text on curves, and convert text to graphics!
Available now.
TrueType Font Engine ($25): Use TrueType fonts with PageStream3.
Wordworth Document Filter ($20): Open entire Wordworth3.1 documents
in PageStream3, retaining pictures, text, endnotes, headers,
footers, objects, etc.
Gary's Effects ($25): Twelve new cool effects for PageStream3's BME2,
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.
MACINTOSH AND WINDOWS NEWS
--------------------------
PageStream3 for Macintosh is scheduled for a December 1995 release.
Versions will be available for both Macintosh and Power Macintosh.
PageStream3 for Windows95 is scheduled for a summer 1996 release.
System Requirements:
Macintosh: 68030 or better, System 7.1 or later, 8MB
PowerMacintosh: 8MB
Windows95: 8MB (subject to change)
WindowsNT: 12MB (subject to change)
All versions of PageStream3 will be able to share document files.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
------------------
You can now purchase a 5 Call Credit Pack for technical support.
Instead of paying $15 for each problem resolution, you can buy a
5-pack which is only $60. 5 for the price of 4!
ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBERS (as of Dec '94)
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Soft-Logik Publishing
315 Consort Drive
St. Louis, MO 63011-4439
SALES 1-800-829-8608 (314-256-9595)
FAX 314-256-7773
PAID TECH SUPPORT* 1-800-829-5816 (314-256-9333)
BBS (28.8 lines) 314-256-8971
* for paid technical support only
©1995 SOFT-LOGIK PUBLISHING CORP.