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- WELCOME TO THE PAGESTREAM 3.2b UPDATE! April 10, 1997
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-
- Choose Scripts/View ReadMe.Now to read this from within PageStream3.
- (Requires ARexx.)
-
- Welcome to PageStream 3.2b! This version is a free patch made available
- to users of PageStream3.2 and includes numerious speed improvements,
- interface enhancements, and bug fixes. This is the result of over 5 months
- of work and we at SoftLogik think you will be impressed. 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 3.2 TO 3.2b
- ------------------------
- This list only includes changes since January 14th. We still hope to find
- the changes log for changes between October and then, but its not looking
- good. Sorry! Since there was such a short period of time between 3.2a and
- 3.2b, we decided to keep the changes long cumulitive. We have noted what
- was new in 3.2b with a * instead of a -.
-
- TEXT:
- - Filled tabs in frameless text objects can now be used.
- - Filled tabs at the start of a line fixed.
- - Soft Hyphens imbedded in text will no longer cause hilighting problems.
- - PageStream text codes now supports <\h> for the export/import of soft
- hyphens.
- - Numerous accented characters added to Find Text ignore accent table.
- - Triple clicking (Paragraph Selection) on paragraphs that run off into
- text overflow will now properly hilight without crashing.
- - Gradient/Stroked text in the middle of a sentence now works consitantly.
- - Styles in multichapter documents are now all forced to the document
- level where they should have been to begin with. Internally PageStream
- supports styles at the chapter level, but the interface doesn't properly
- handle it.
- - Adding and deleting variables now cause the document to change. Variables
- with an existing name can no longer be created.
- - Inserting text mark no longer crashes.
- - Can no longer select non-exisiting characters beyond the end of the list
- of characters in Insert Special
- - Custom underline, small caps, superscript, & subscript now can be set
- reliably.
- - Fixed several bugs in adding and removing font paths in the
- Font Setup requester.
- * Fixed problem with similar text in rotated and unrotated versions showing
- twisted in the unrotated text.
- - IFF CTXT: Modified to support future windows version.
- - ProWrite: Now supports retain formatting. It always retained the formatting
- before.
- - ProWrite: Fixed the setting of type size which often resulted in a point
- size of 0 for imported ProWrite text.
- - ProWrite: Color mapping in COLR chunk now supported.
- - FinalWriter: Fixed a locked memory handle problem. These don't cause a
- problem but its cleaner this way.
- * FinalWriter: Fixed crash when loading tabbed text w/ retain format off.
- Also speed up and cleaned up the code some.
- * ProWrite: Fixed color mapping bug.
-
- OBJECTS:
- - Gradient fills display & print faster and more accurate!
- - Dissolving rotated drawings will no longer cause the objects
- to be displaced.
- - Drawings are now only selectable by clicking on the visible portion of
- the masked objects.
- - Many rotated objects can now be resizing as would be expected. Still some
- trouble with resizing rotated groups & multi-selected objects.
- - External pictures now present the external size in Information, not the
- FPO size.
- - External pictures now scale properly to fit the frame.
- - EPS previews are now clipped by the mask. Mask outline is now shown if no
- preview exists.
- - Inverse gradients display properly now.
- - Now if you reshape a text frame path, the text will reflow to fill.
- - Arrowheads now redraw properly when set or moved.
- - Transform will now rotate about the rotation point if set.
- * Fixed problem with some drawings at 100% scale.
- * Fixed Duplicate/Transform for border objects crashing.
- * Borders now show measurements in the edit palette based on current prefs.
- * Fixed large gaps that can occur with some border types, and fixed
- small gap at the corners.
- * When border tool is selected, edit palette will track the mouse like
- other tools when not drawing.
- * Borders should not interact with gradient filled objects now.
- * Fixed numerous problems with resizing, reshaping, & cropping objects on
- the pasteboard. Don't know if they all got fixed, but should be.
- - IFF ILUS: Complex paths >64k in length (approx. 4,000 segments in length)
- load & save properly now.
- - IFF ILUS: Paths now load and save as much as 200% faster now.
- - IFF ILUS: Modified to support future windows version.
- - IFF DR2D: Objects no longer load stroked when they were not stroked.
- * IFF ILBM: Many checks added for illegal ILBM's. Should catch most bad files.
- * IFF ILUS: Complex frames and effects paths >64k in length save properly now.
- * IFF ILUS: Random problem saving frameless text objects fixed.
-
- DOCUMENTS:
- - Reports now include fonts & colors used in frameless text objects.
- - Reports now ignores fonts & colors used in invisible objects and text.
- * Fixed reports for border crashing.
- - Loading of styles/colors/variables will better knock out exisiting
- identical styles/colors/variables and will no longer create endless
- duplicate colors, etc.
- * Page Palette no longer hangs when setting the chapter length manually.
- - IFF DOC: Fixed bug in saving of revisions which could corrupt documents.
- Added code in document loading which should try and fix corrupted
- documents.
- - IFF DOC: Column gutters for masterpages now load and save properly.
- - IFF DOC: Snap to grid flags now load and save properly.
- - IFF DOC: Modified to support future windows version.
- - PageStream2: Changed wording of font not found alert.
-
- GENERAL PRINTING:
- - Improved stop printing response. Still lacking to non-postscript but
- better none the less.
-
- POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- - Spot separations of tinted spot colors now retain the tint.
- - Thumbnail printing fixed.
- - Fixed problem where if the standard 35 had to be downloaded, they would
- not get reencoded.
- - New .general file. For whatever reason, it did not include Courier as
- a built in font.
- * Order dependency for Mirror & Negative now read out properly. This should
- fix all problems with mirror/negative not working to some printers.
-
- NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTING:
- - MAJOR SPEED & MEMORY IMPROVEMENT!!! If you print using the halftone or
- ordered dither options using our custom drivers, you should find major
- improvements in the speed and the memory usage without loss of print
- quality! Also, using the new threshold dither option will be even faster,
- but at the cost of some quality when printing color/black shades. This
- speed improvement is not as dramatic with preferences printing and Floyd-
- Steinberg dithering due to the need to continue to calculate large amounts
- of data before postprocessing of the bitmap image.
- - HP driver has several driver margins changed to more closely match the
- actual printer margins.
- - Rotated CG text to non-square resolutions no longer print with improper
- aspect ratio.
-
- INTERFACE:
- - Underline, Italic, Shadow, Reverse, Outline, Superscript, Subscript,
- & Small Caps custom previews and Insert Special and Manual Kerngin
- will now show the sample text on a black background when the text is white
- or near white.
- - Shift-Clicking on the Underline, Italic, Shadow, Reverse, Outline,
- Superscript, Subscript, & Small Caps buttons in the edit palette will
- allow you to customize them.
- - Tip #15 rewritten to include details on our web site and digest. AOL &
- Compuserve references removed since we no longer support those sites.
- - Fixed spelling error in Tip #50.
- - Toolbar Tool buttons no longer off by 1 tool.
- - When a color or style is selected from the Palette, the document will
- now be automatically reactivated (AMIGA only).
-
- SCRIPTING:
- - new pref get macro: flag<ON|OFF> = GETAUTOCOLUMNS
- - new parameter for TRANSFORM command. [ABOUT x y]
- - Fixed data for Avery Label 7664 template.
- - Changed mailmerge macro to reset variables to the same format the original
- dummy data was set to using ยป instead of >.
- * New Print Font Specimin macro. No idea what it fixed :-)
- * Mail Merge macro will no print the entire document, not just the first page.
-
- BME:
-
- MAC:
- - TrueType fonts can now be stroked and filled with gradient, and can be
- used with TextFX!
- - LaserWriter 8.4 driver can now be used!
- - Certain fonts output to non-square resolutions no longer print with
- improper aspect ratio.
- - PICT printing to LaserWriter 8.4 fixed.
- - Display of EPS with review fixed.
-
- NOTES
- -----
- - 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
- -------------------
- 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.
-
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- HOW TO CONTACT SOFTLOGIK
- ------------------------
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- 315 Consort Drive
- St. Louis, MO 63011-4439
-
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