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- WELCOME TO THE PAGESTREAM 3.0a FREE UPDATE! September 22, 1994
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- CHOOSE MACROS/!DISPLAY README FILE TO READ THIS FROM WITHIN PAGESTREAM3.
-
- CHANGES FROM 3.0 TO 3.0A ARE LISTED LATER IN THIS FILE.
-
- A LIST OF UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES IS INCLUDED AT THE END OF THIS FILE.
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-
- Here's the first in a series of free update patches to PageStream3. This
- update implements more features and fixes problems with the initial
- release. The most important new feature is the implementation of frameless
- text objects.
-
- Text is still very slow to type and format. (It hasn't changed in this
- version.) Text redraws are smarter now so changing text attributes is
- easier now.
-
- We recommend not attempting the tutorial lessons until version 3.0b when
- all the tutorial files will be included and the necessary features will be
- implemented.
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-
- CHANGES FROM 3.0 TO 3.0a
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-
- TEXT:
- - Frameless text objects implemented! Just click on the page with the Text
- tool and type!
- - Eliminated extra text redraws when applying attributes!
- - Current attribute defaults are now implemented. (You can now place the
- insertion point (cursor), change the font or other attributes, and then
- type, without reverting back to Triumvirate.)
- - You can now repeatedly use the arrow gadgets in the Edit palette to
- change the type size and other text attributes.
- - Changed default alignment from justified to left.
- - Amiga keyboard shortcuts now work.
- - You now get a normal height cursor when you click in a frame.
- - Right indent tab are now done.
- - Stopped text from being displayed outside of its frame.
-
- PRINTING:
- - New custom Epson driver included!
- - HP color variants now supported.
- - PaintJet problems fixed.
- - Some Canon variants are now supported. Choose the Epson driver from the
- Printing Preferences' Type popup, and choose the Canon model from the
- Model popup. (These Canon printers are similar to Epson printers.)
- - The basic 13 resident PostScript printer fonts are now supported for
- PostScript printing, but the style variations are not. (ie: Pala
- (Palatino) will print correctly, but Pala Italic will not; it will print
- as Palatino normal. This will be corrected in 3.0b. Times Italic, Times
- Bold, Times Bold Italic, and Triumvirate Bold (Helvetica ) will print
- correctly though, because they are in a different font format.)
- - Printing Compugraphic fonts to PostScript now saves the generated PFB
- versions of the fonts on disk. This solves the timeout problem. See
- the NOTES section for important details.
- - Top offset problem fixed. (You may need to adjust your offsets.)
- - Improvd Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
- - TO color percentage fixed for PostScript.
- - Collate now defaults to off.
- - Do Not Print flag (Edit palette, Object/Edit) now implemented.
- - Parenthesis problem (PostScript) fixed.
- - Multiple copy problem (non-PostScript) fixed.
-
- MISC:
- - Tab key problem fixed.
- - Enforcer hits on changing edit palette modes fixed.
- - Object selection (it selected the stack of objects) fixed.
- - Select and move immediately problem fixed.
- - Click click drawing for Column tool fixed, and all click click drawing
- made less sensitive. (Click click drawing is the 2.2 method of drawing
- objects instead of 3.0's drag draw method and is still supported for
- those who haven't learned the new method yet.)
- - View Prefrences Scale problem fixed.
- - Toolbox Prefs: Pie and Arc are no longer reversed.
- - Toolbox Prefs: Opaque/Transparent is no longer ignored.
- - Fixed the Set Grid pica problem.
- - Font Prefreferencess: Cache settings are now loaded.
- - Autoscroll now works when resizing objects.
-
- POSTSCRIPT FONTS:
- - Fixed enforcer hits when adding ABF files. YOU MUST UPDATE ALL FONT PATHS
- WITH ABF FILES IN THEM OR THEY WILL NO LONGER WORK.
-
- COMPUGRAPHIC FONTS:
- - Intellifonts should now rotate/slant/twist correctly.
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- FILTERS:
- - ASCII and IFF FTXT tabs now import correctly.
- - PageStream2 document filter now loads frameless text objects correctly.
- - An expanded PageStream2.fontlist file is included for greater
- compatibility.
-
- BME:
- - Trace effect now works with lines and curves. (File requester wouldn't
- open to let you save your traced drawing.)
-
- NOTES:
- - There are improved help files available for this version in a separate
- archive. They were not included with this archive due to space
- limitations. The other archive will be available a few days after this
- archive.
- - The other archive also contains the FontListV2Analyzer utility. This
- program will examine your PageStream2 FONTLISTv2 file and add the names
- of your fonts to PageStream3's PageStream2.fontlist file so that your
- PageStream2 documents can be opened more reliably. (If an alert stating
- font ####### not found appears when you open a PageStream2 document, you
- need this utility.)
- - If you print more than one Compugraphic font to a PostScript printer, it
- may still timeout the first time you print a CG font because the PFB
- generation is slow. Print to disk the first time you print a CG font to
- avoid this problem. Or just print the document again if it times out
- because the second time it won't have to generate the PFB. Once the PFB
- is generated, you will never have this problem again. (You need about 35K
- of hard drive space for each Compugraphic font you want to print.) Note
- that printing Times or Triumvirate will not create a PFB file because
- these fonts do not need to be downloaded.
- - If you get error message 93 when printing a Compugraphic font to
- Postcript, Agfa's Intellifont engine will have failed. (We're looking
- into this problem now. It usually occurs when printing more than one CG
- font that doesn't already have a PFB file.) Click on Ok to allow the
- print job to be finished. If it fails and there are more CG fonts to
- print that don't already have PFB files, it will put up the alert again
- for each remaining font. When it is done printing (it won't print the
- fonts it failed on), quit PageStream and restart it. (The Intellifont
- engine must be re-initialized.) Print the document again. We are
- investigating this problem, but once you have the PFB version of each of
- your CG fonts created, you will never have this problem again with that
- font. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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- UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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-
- To help you know what isn't finished, here is a list of unimplemented
- features:
-
- - Append
- - Save Template As
- - Revert
- - Plate Control
- - Place
- - Export text - not all formats export yet
- - Paste - text in text frames is not pasted
- - Undo - only for object features so far
- - Find and Replace
- - Spell checking
- - External text
- - External graphics
- - Send to Editor - only for BME (bitmapped pictures), not for text
- - Document Structure - you can't drag yet. Click on icons to create.
- - Layout/Information
- - Facing Pages
- - Greek Text
- - Bold and Italics - applied bold and italics aren't done yet, and
- the buttons do not select the designed styles.
- - Outline
- - Weight commands
- - Text Line/Fill
- - Paragraph Format - bulleted paragraphs are done.
- - Auto Hyphenation
- - Insert Soft Hyphen
- - Conditional Break
- - Picture fencing
- - Object/ Information
- - Gradient/Shape/Radial - done to PostScript. Only linear 0,90,180,270
- gradients done to screen and non-PostScript
- - Bitmap fills - done to PostScript, but not screen or non-PS
- - Misc line/fill - most are done to PS, but not screen or non-PS
- - Trapping
- - Text Wrap - offsets and modes 3 and 6 are not done.
- - Text Anchor
- - AutoBackup
- - Typographic Prefs
- - Edit Hyphenation
- - Edit Kerning
- - Font/Style palettes - partially done
- - Page palette - only shows page icons
- - Pen tool - can only draw basic line segments
- - Reshape tool
- - Edit palette - done except for multiple selected objects
- - Primera driver - use Preference driver for now
- - Canon driver - use compatible Epson or Preference for now
- - Landscape printing
- - Double/triple click
- to select text
-
- Tip: if you press Return to start a new paragraph in a frameless text
- object or text frame, the insertion point (cursor) will not appear to
- advance to the next line. Don't press Return again. It's just a redraw
- problem.
-
-
-
- We hope you enjoy using this updated version of PageStream3. We are
- committed to giving you the best possible software for your Amiga
- computer. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for supporting Amiga
- software companies.
-
- Deron and everybody at Soft-Logik
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