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- * ProDraw.Import v2.1.6 *
-
-
- ; IMPORTANT: PageStream has trouble dealing with large filled compound
- ; objects. This will turn up most often when loading a Trace-ed clip.
- ; A safe way to load a large traced clip is to drag paste it at a small
- ; size and then increase it's size at small increments until you get the
- ; size desired. If the object disappears leaving only the object handles,
- ; you will have surpassed PageStream's ability to deal correctly with
- ; the object - DO NOT continue to size it larger. At this point you may
- ; have corrrupted memory and be begging for a system crash. Delete the
- ; object and save you work (preferably NOT to the original file) save to
- ; ram:, when the save is complete copy the ram: file you saved to a safe
- ; place, but not over your original file. Quit PageStream, if it quits OK
- ; you have not destroyed anything and it it safe to re-load and continue
- ; working. If you get GURU or Recoverable Alert (0100000F) re-boot and
- ; start over.
- ;
- ; If you paste a large filled compound object directly (without drag
- ; pasting), you might destroy memory right there with little hope of
- ; saving you work so please follow the above instructions, although
- ; if you save as stated above you will not lose any work if the save
- ; fails.
- ;
- ; It has been determined as to why this is occuring and it has been
- ; fixed.
- ;
- ; If you will be printing to PostScript and you have a nasty clip
- ; save the clip from prodraw as eps and import that into PageStream, this
- ; will work correctly all the time.
- ;
-
-
- ************************** CHANGES ******************************************
- ;
- ; version 2.1.7 (7/5/91)
- ;
- ; - added more checks for curves that should be turned into lines because
- ; some were still slipping through.
- ;
- ; - fixed a bug with converting curves to lines with negative object
- ; dimensions.
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.6
- ;
- ; - fixed a bug when "growing" memory. It was using the return value when
- ; the function was not supposed to be returning anything valid.
- ;
- ; - added a version string so "version prodraw.import" will report the
- ; version of the module.
- ;
- ; - fixed a bug that would cause PgS to crash when the object was pasted.
- ; (the o_end call was never made to match the o_begingroup call)
- ;
- ; - changed the way the various implementaions of the PDRF chunk length
- ; is handle - it is now ignored. The module uses the length of the
- ; file instead.
- ;
- ; - added "clean up" code the pget? calls for d0
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.5 (uploaded 5/2/91)
- ;
- ; - fixed bug when importing compound object. the default object defs
- ; were getting set each time a new part of the compound obj came in.
- ; this means object data such as line color and width were being set to
- ; the defaults instead of the actual values wanted.
- ;
- ; - added support for rounded ends on lines
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.4 (uploaded 3/29/91)
- ;
- ; - Syndesis files are now imported. they were writing their files a
- ; little differently than ProDraw. they did not include a COLR "chunk"
- ; at the start of each color - only the color section. also the PDPF
- ; length did not include the entire file as prodraw does - it was 4
- ; bytes short. (it did not include the PDPF tag).
- ;
- ; - bug fix: sometimes a clip would exit without getting to the paste
- ; cursor, this was due to a routine corrupting the counting register
- ; used to skip extra data not needed. This has been fixed.
- ;
- ; - changed the way compound objects are delt with, this fixed several
- ; problems with them.
- ;
- ; - bug fix: if a circle object started a compound object it was not
- ; detected and problems would result. This has been fixed.
- ;
- ; - objects are now better aligned with other objects.
- ;
- ; - rotated circles are now placed correctly.
- ;
- ; - large clips are now handled correctly.
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.3 (shipped with PgS2.1 12/7/90)
- ;
- ; - bug fixes: when importing older clips
- ;
- ; - misc bugs when importing a bitmap traced object
- ; (not completly fixed yet)
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.2 (uploaded 11/15/90 approx.)
- ;
- ; - added support for compound objects (holes&cutouts now supported)
- ;
- ; - circles are now converted into 4 bezier curves.
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.1 (uploaded 11/2/90)
- ;
- ; - the size is closer to the size in prodraw
- ;
- ;
- ; version 2.1.0
- ;
- ; - initial release
-
-
-
- ANNOUNCING THE PRODRAW CLIPS IMPORT MODULE!
-
- Yes here it is (finally)! Now you can import those pesky prodraw clip files
- into PageStream AND EDIT THEM! (try that in propage). The module imports the
- objects as well as the colors used in the files. You can also bring in text
- from the clip files. The text is brought in as a graphic so it too can be
- edited - which makes for some interesting effects.
-
- The ProDraw.import module can only be used with PageStream2.1 and up.
-
- With version 2.0 of the OS the "version" command has gained some new talents.
- Whereas it used to only work on libraries, it now works on any file. It will
- look for a "version string" inside a file and print it out to the CLI if it
- finds it. A "version string" has been added to many of the new import modules.
- This makes it very easy to find out what version of the import module you have.
- From a CLI just type "version <module name>" and press return. You no longer
- have to load up PageStream and look at the import requester for the version
- number.
-
- With version 2.0 of the OS the "version" command has gained some new talents.
- Whereas it used to only work on libraries, it now works on any file. It will
- look for a "version string" inside a file and print it out to the CLI if it
- finds it. A "version string" has been added to many of the new import modules.
- This makes it very easy to find out what version of the import module you have.
- From a CLI just type "version <module name>" and press return. You no longer
- have to load up PageStream and look at the import requester for the version
- number.
-
- As with all the modules, if you come across some pictures that will not load
- or crash when importing, please upload them to our BBS or mail them to us on
- a floppy disk with an explaination of the problem. We will try them and fix
- the import module if appropriate.
-
- Thank you,
-
-
-
- Gary Knight
- Soft-Logik Publishing Corp.
-