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- 4.0.0.1 _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s
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- +o Multiple undo fails in rare instances. Redo sometimes
- does not get you back to the original state.
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- +o ----ggggeeeeoooommmmeeeettttrrrryyyy option does not work. Workaround: Use the ----SSSS
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- +o Sometimes in the Spell Check gizmo when you ask for
- guesses, it gives some bogus choices. (See old relnotes
- for more info).
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- +o some speed keys can get lost if typed quickly in
- succession. Most notably is paste (alt-v).
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- +o Running showcase in a country other than the US does
- not automatically use metric measurements.
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- 4.0.0.2 _T_e_x_t
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- +o Insert RTF (from File menu) does not always work.
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- +o Date and Time functions (in Text Gizmo) reflect the
- startup date and time, not the current date and time.
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- +o Showcase cannot display large 3D (zoomed) scenes.
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- +o ``Make 2D graphic'' (on the Text Gizmo) will make a
- graphic that is the original size of a text label. If
- the label has been stretched, its new size will not be
- reflected. Workaround: Re-stretch it, or use the
- Align gizmo to get the exact same size as the label.
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- +o If you copy a centered text block which is the last
- paragraph in a block before a left justified paragraph
- the text will become left justified. Always copy a
- blank paragraph to workaround.
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- +o If you right justify a paragraph and undo a newline
- will be added.
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- 4.0.0.3 _H_y_p_e_r_s_c_r_i_p_t_s
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- +o Certain ``Run program'' links with relative paths in
- old Showcase 2.x documents may break after being saved
- as Showcase 3.1 files. They work fine if you do not
- resave the file. There was a bug in Showcase 2.x where
- the ``Run program'' links were relative to where
- Showcase was started. This bug is now fixed so that
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- ``Run program'' links are now relative to the location
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- +o ``Check all scripts'' in the HyperScript gizmo doesn't
- always find all the invalid scripts. It sometimes
- doesn't find bad ``Run program'' actions.
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- +o Cannot undo hyperscript work (such as adding actions,
- deleting actions, or deleting scripts).
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- +o If you set up a hyperscript to do a ``Run program,''
- then ``Repeat HyperScript,'' you might get in trouble.
- If you need to place the program with the mouse, you
- cannot stop the loop, other than by resetting the
- system.
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- 4.0.0.4 _A_u_d_i_o
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- +o The waveform in the Audio Gizmo does not always show an
- accurate waveform.
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- +o In some cases when audio is playing and an audio
- hyperscript is playing the rate can change and cause
- one sound to play too fast or too slow.
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- 4.0.0.5 _3_D__G_i_z_m_o
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- +o When importing 3D Inventor files into Showcase, _U_n_i_t_s
- (Inventor node) objects are ignored and lost.
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- +o Transparent 3D objects sometimes draw in the wrong
- order-they appear behind or in front of objects
- incorrectly. For now, the workaround is this: After
- you have composed your scene and chosen a camera view
- you like, you can select all the transparent objects,
- then cut and paste them back into the scene. This
- forces them to be drawn last, so they look fine.
- However, if you then rotate your scene, you might see
- problems again. The problem becomes worse if you have
- multiple transparent objects.
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- +o Sometimes 3D objects come out black during printing.
- This occurs when you try to print 3D objects that have
- multiple colors/materials assigned to them. Showcase
- 3.2 does not provide a way to add multiple colors to
- objects, but objects can be imported that have this
- property. A workaround is to select the culprit,
- choose a color or material from a palette, and try
- again. The object now has a single color, but it
- prints fine.
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- +o 3D objects with patterns from the Master gizmo do not
- show up textured when copying/pasting into the
- SceneViewer or other Inventor programs.
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- +o 3D text does not show up textured when copying/pasting
- into the SceneViewer or other Inventor programs.
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- 4.0.0.6 _I_m_a_g_e_s
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- +o Image size is limited to a maximum dimension of 1500
- pixels wide or high during zooming. Thus, images may
- appear pixellated when zoomed. This is typically only
- a problem with computer-generated images and line art,
- which tend to have many high-frequency components. To
- avoid this artifact, use _i_z_o_o_m or a similar image
- scaling tool to zoom the image, then import the result
- into Showcase.
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- 4.0.0.7 _P_r_i_n_t_i_n_g
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- +o When printing 3D scenes, texture maps, shadows and
- transparency information do not print. To properly
- print a scene that has such objects, capture an image
- of the page containing the scene using the Image gizmo,
- place that image on a new page, and print that new page
- separately. See the documentation for more information
- on using the Image gizmo and printing.
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- +o There are 3D printing bugs that can cause spurious
- polygons to show up as if a vertex were dragged off the
- model to a distant point.
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