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- | EDGE Diagrammer V1.0 |
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- | KNOWN BUGS |
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- KB10001 Multiple text areas highlighted simultaneously.
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- DESCRIPTION: While editing text in a figure that has multiple text
- areas, pressing the tab key twice in rapid succession causes both
- text areas to be highlighted improperly.
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- WORKAROUND: Don't type so quickly.
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- KB10002 Text scaling and truncation problem.
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- DESCRIPTION: Text does not scale as precisely as other objects
- in a diagram. This is primarily a limitation of the Windows
- operating system that we have not found a good method to get around.
- Text can only scale to even point sizes 4pt, 5pt, 6pt. However,
- diagrams can scale to any degree. The rounding that occurs usually
- picks a smaller text size if the exact size is not available,
- however occasionally, the larger size is chosen inadvertantly.
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- SYMPTOMS: Ends of text labels can occasionally be cut of on
- print-outs. At certain zoom percentages, text seems to be cut off
- in a figure or label near the edges. When a figure expands to the
- size of its text, sometimes it will not seem to expand to the proper
- size.
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- WORKAROUND: In extreme cases you might have to manually enlarge a
- figure or label beyond the size that EDGE Diagrammer does itself.
- You can also add extra spaces to your text at strategic locations.
- On the screen, the problem will only occur at certain percentages
- of zooming, you can avoid these percentages.
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- KB10003 Endcap colors don't match connector colors when printing.
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- DESCRIPTION: Endcaps are the squared-off areas that EDGE
- Diagrammer adds to connectors that are thicker than 3pts and are
- vertical or horizontal or meet another connector at a ninety degree
- angle. On the screen, the end cap color always matches the color
- of the connector. However, when printing, o after pasting to
- another program, the endcaps can become a slightly different shade
- than that of the connector. This occurs because the line color must
- be a solid color on the output device (either black or white on a
- black and white printer!) while the endcap uses dithering to achieve
- a closer match to the true color.
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- WORKAROUND: Avoid fancy colored connectors if they are thick and you
- want to print them to black and white printers. Or avoid endcaps.
- You can prevent endcaps by keeping thick labels slightly off from
- vertical or horizontal by turning off snap an moving one end
- slightly.
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- KB10004 Tooltip drop-outs over rulers.
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- DESCRIPTION: Occasionally, a small piece of a toolbar "tip" (the
- little help balloons) is left drawn on top of the ruler bar. We
- have not been able to isolate exactly how this is caused.
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- WORKAROUND: The problem is only visual. You can clean up your
- display by either toggling rulers off then back on, or resizing your
- main window to force the screen to repaint. No harm is caused by
- ignoring the problem.
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- KB10005 Figure text edit overlapping other figures.
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- DESCRIPTION: If you edit text for a figure that is "behind"
- other nearby figures but is not overlapping those figures so that
- it doesn't appear to be behind them, and then you add text such
- that the figure automatically expands to such extent that it now
- overlaps the other figures. In this unusual case, the other figures
- will appear between the figure and the text until you cause a
- repaint.
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- KB10006 Connectors, text, and border don't draw in the color I want.
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- DESCRIPTION: As explained several times in the User Guide and
- on-line help, connectors, text, and figure borders (anything
- drawn with lines), has to be drawn in a color that can be drawn
- solid on the output device. In the case of a black and white
- printer, the only solid colors are black and white. On a 16 color
- video display, there are 16 different solid colors. Windows can
- create other colors on the screen for fills by dithering (adding
- patterns of multiple colors) but it cannot do so for lines or text.
- Therefore, it you choose a dithered color like blue-green and try
- use that color as a connector color, the connector will actually
- be drawn in the nearest solid color (blue or green on the display,
- black on a black and white printer.)
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- WORKAROUND: For text and lines, use only colors that can be drawn
- solid on the output device that it will be drawn on. If possible
- use a 256-color display mode, and if you want to get fancy with
- colors, consider a color printer.
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- KB10007 Dashed or dotted connectors must be 1/4 pt.
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- DESCRIPTION: When you try to create a dashed or dotted connector
- that is thicker than 1/4 pt, the point size reverts back to 1/4 pt.
- This is simply a restriction of styled lines. Only thin lines may
- be dashed or dotted. Our only practical alternative was to
- disallow dashed and dotted lines altogether.
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- KB10008 Some point sizes are not allowed.
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- DESCRIPTION: Although point sizes (for connector thicknesses, figure
- border thicknesses, and connector end sizes) are displayed as
- decimal numbers and are entered as decimal numbers, they are in fact
- rounded to the nearest 256th of an inch (or 100th of a cm.) for
- internal storage. Therefore, the numbers you enter get rounded to
- a number than can be used internally, then rounded back to decimal
- for display. For example, point measures can be made no finer than
- 0.25 points (0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, and so on.) In fact, some
- whole numbers are best represented by a slightly different value.
- For example 10pts is not possible to display because 35/256ths is
- closer 9.75 than to 10.0 and 36/356ths is closer to 10.25 than to
- 10.0. Therefore, EDGE Diagrammer stores 10pts as 10.25pts, its
- closest match.
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- KB10009 Can't paste some characters into figure or label text.
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- DESCRIPTION: A few special punctuation characters cannot be added
- to figure or label text. The tilde "~", vertical bar "|",
- and accent grave '`' are reserved for internal usage. If you try
- to paste text from the clipboard that contains these characters,
- they will be stripped out of the text.
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- KB10010 Can't import exported metafile
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- DESCRIPTION: If you export a diagram to a metafile, you cannot then
- import that metafile for use as a figure style graphic. Actually,
- this should work unless the exported diagram contains WMF graphics
- itself.
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- Please report any bugs you discover, CompuServe E-mail (72162,1672)
- is the best method. Thanks.
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