I just discovered that the reason the list seemed a little thin was
that my yahoo prefs were set to no delivery. I'm not sure how that
happened, but I'm starting to catch up and should be getting list
email in the future. I'm still getting caught up on the missed email,
but I did have a feature request I wanted to mention:
External graphics are great, especially when the graphics amount to a
few gig. They are stored on my file server which means they are
available to my laptop when it is on the network, but not when I am
"roaming";. This causes a problem when loading documents with numerous
external images as you get prompted for each and every one of them.
I have two ideas for how to address this:
1. a preferences option to not prompt for external graphics which are
not found -- this would completely eliminate the problem, but would
require changing the setting to cause it to prompt in situations where
it should (this happens to me because I use PgS on three platforms and
all three end up with different paths due to mount points, etc.)
2. an option in the "locate external graphic" requester to "cancel
this and all others for this document"
Thoughts?
Tim Doty
On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:49 PM, PageStream Support wrote:
>
> I posted a new SoftLogikApp.dll file that anyone should be able to
> download it that downloaded the Windows upload last night. This fixes
> the crash that was happening when you opened the file selector (well,
> did something that tried to open the file selector).
>
> Nothing else changed, and I'm sure other problems will crop up! One of
> the changes was to the control layout in dialog boxes. It should be
> _much_ more consistant, and the pref/edit palette etc shouldn't change
> sizes because you picked a different option. I do see that the dialogs
> are opening up under the palettes (wasn't that happening before
> anyway?)
> and the alert dialog (are you sure you want to close, etc) and another
> one looked bad. Please report them as you see them so I can try and
> fix
> them.
>
> Deron
>
>
> Changes since 5.0.4.4 (last windows release) and 5.0.4.17:
>
> Recorded changes to 5.0.4.17
> + Show Text Linking only shows for articles which have multiple
> columns now.
>; + Fixed break text routing that would loose initial text formatting
> for
> new articles. Long standing bug (forever).
> + Changed support for printing multiple pages. This works on Linux,
> and
> both OS X and Linux uses the same CUPS system, so I don't know why it
> won't work under OS X, nor am I sure if this actually will fix the
> problem.
> + The Francais and Espanol language modules were not displaying the
> language menu or popups, but it threw off the counts so that if you
> picked something you got something else. Fixed.
> + Changed several places for importing to use new unlimited path
> length
> functions.
> + Fixed several cancel when importing crashes.
> + Script commands RX, Play, and Execute (all aliases for the command
> to
> run an external script) now can have arguments that are passed to the
> script.
> ** RX filepath [5.0.4.17:arg1 arg2...]
> ** PLAY filepath [5.0.4.17:arg1 arg2...]
> ** EXECUTE filepath [5.0.4.17:arg1 arg2...]
> + Pref item "STARTUP scriptname" can now have arguments that are
> passed
> to script.
> + All new code for finding missing external graphics. Basically it
> tries
> to work with the same directory structure but with different path
>; prefixes to deal with loading files on a server from different
> computers
> with different paths to the server.
> + When arrow keys get you to the top/bottom/left/right of the page it
> will now advance to the previous/next page.
> + document palette displays items at the top like it should instead of
> at the bottom of the visible space.
> + Fixed selecting PPD in print setup causing a crash right away (new
>; file selector attached to document window was the cause).
> + Fixed CMYK Jpeg from Adobe products that reversed the intensities.
> + corrected spelling in MakeTextFXPath new keyword
> ** MAKETEXTFXPATH [5.0.4.16: QUIET | ALERT]
>
> Recorded chnages to 5.0.4.16
> + File path encodings for external graphics from other platforms now
> converted to local encoding.
> + Place graphic by mouse now fixed
> + Save as PDF and Print progress requester now attached to relevant
> document window.
> + Ascii import now sniffs the data to see if it is valid utf-8 for
> setting the import charset (ei, choose between classic mac or utf-8).
> + Added FRAME command to BREAKTEXTROUTING macro command:
> ** BREAKTEXTROUTING [TOFRAME][FROMFRAME] [5.0.4.16:FRAME]
> + You can now break text routing in object mode.
> + When updating external drawing and eps objects, will refresh
> color/style listings.
> + Updated font display code. Hopefully fixes uneven baseline issues.
> + Added support for CMYK Jpeg files (import and export). I don't have
>; any real files to test with, so if you do please send them or the url
> where they can be found!
> + Loading documents that originated on Linux should now properly
> reverse
> out escaped characters in the path name and remove any leading
> "file://"
> for external item names.
> + Removed most font/text debug output (made a debug option that can be
> turned back on, or have text rescanned)
> + Made default font the default selection in Define Kerning and Define
> Ligature.
> + Selecting a font with no ligatures would crash Define Ligature.
> + Added support for Type 1 afm and pfm font metric files. Old versions
> of PageStream supported these, and they are still in use for Type 1
> fonts. About time PageStream supported them again! Still looking for
> proper PFM file format documentation. Does anyone have this??
> + Fixed problem where FreeType would report that no kerning existed
> and
> it did. Seems FreeType doesn't support GPOS TrueType table for
> kerning,
> where as PageStream does. Now PageStream just goes and looks for
> itself
> to find out if anything kerning tables in the font.
> + Fixed bug in unencoded glpyh support that wacked
> widths/ligatures/kerning etc for those fonts which used them.
> + Added support for zero width characters (combining accents mostly)
> which fixes some ligatures also that converted for example A +
> non-spacing grave to Agrave.
> + Removed unnecessary system font scanning (left it as a debug option)
> + Gradient angle was not measured by user angle prefs.
> + Fixed overflow indicator (broken with new text typing update).
> + Removed obnoxious numbers boxes from Align, but kept keyboard
> shortcuts
> + Update to Define Ligature dialog which now uses the text rendering
> to
> show the list items including the unencoded characters, and a textual
> dump of the selected ligature to show the exact unicode/glpyh numbers.
> + Custom underline now lets you chose double underline and set the
> offset/size/color for each of the two strokes.
> + Switching to the grayscale color model in Edit Color will now cause
> the sample to update to the now gray color.
> + When you add a font via font prefs that is a duplicate of an
> installed
> system font, it will now keep the user installed font and ignore the
> system font. Before it was a random choice between the two. This
>; specifically was requested because the Apple Times New Roman font has
> fewer characters and a different spacing than the Windows font by the
> same name. Now you can use the Windows font under PageStream and
> maintain the original Times font. However, if you create a PDF file
> and
> don't embed the base 14 fonts you will get the system font file which
> has fewer/different characters.
> + DEBUGFILE output will now be placed in the PageStream5 user prefs
> folder instead of inside the PageStream application bundle.
> + Updated PageStream3 reference in German translation
> + Applying Smooth Path to a path with a curve (or previously smoothed)
> no longer creates wacky paths. FYI, this command is most useful for
> large numbers of small line segments where it will curve fit them into
>; smooth curves. A simple path with a few lines will generally not yield
> much if any change to the path.
> + First, Previous, Next, and Last Page Number commands now have new
> behavior. Before, if you used these commands in a frameless text
> object,
> or a single frame article (ie, not linked), you would just get a -.
> Now,
>; it looks for the nearest article on the page that has a
> first/prev/next/last page number and displays that. Whew. A lot of
> words
> to say:
>; ++ You can now create "Continue on page xxx/Continued from page xx"
> in a
> frameless text object/single text frame and the prev/next page number
> command will pick up the prev/next page number of the nearest linked
> article!
> + New parameters for MakeTextFXPath script command
> ** MAKETEXTFXPATH [5.0.4.16: QUITE | ALERT]
> + Choosing the "dumbed down" Warp or Curve Text scripts without
> frameless text object and path selected will now show an Alert and not
> create an invisible text object, assuming that you have not created a
> custom script list. If you have, then simply edit the Warp Text and
> Curve Text to have the ALERT keyword at the end of the first line of
> these scripts.
> + Text objects, columns, and tables selected in object/reshape mode
> will
>; now all items from the Type menu to be selected and applied to the
> entire textobject/frame/table! Welcome back to a long lost feature
> from
>; 1.x/2.x days!!
> + Text Routing Display now displays. It now uses the default
> attributes
> (except type size).
>
> Recorded changed to 5.0.4.15
> + Font substitution will at least try and find a similar named font
>; instead of simply relying on the default font. Additional
> suggestions on
> findind matches welcome.
> + Fixed bug in PDF import filter. This one is due for a major
> rewrite to
> keep up with latest PDF changes.
> + When printing, the entire mail merge file is now processed to
> generate
> the proper character coverage of a font so that subsetting, ligatures
> and general encoding works properly.
> + Default Double underline text fixed! The default may need some
>; tweaking. Any suggestions or is it good? I need to add the general
> ability to draw double lines and then put an interface on it so you
> can
> customize the double underline. If you can believe it, I've been
>; dragging along multistroke support since 3.0, but the code to offset
> the
> line has never been done (so you can add multiple stroke via script
> commands, but all of the strokes draw on top of each other) and since
> that has not been done the interface bits were removed from 3.0. It
