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2016-04-29 14:37:01 CT #1
T M N Irish
From: United Kingdom
Registered: 2006-08-17
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If, when you run PageStream5.0.5.8, you get
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PageStream 5
Unable to load document because IFF
CTXT filter not found
Abort
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The first report is from Theo back in 2011, and is documented here in
the bug tracker: http://www.pagestream.org/?action=Bug Tracker&id=317

Still, as he reports then and still true now
"a problem which I can't put a finger on".

> Why powering down and then up should make any difference is,
> for me, rather hard to imagine.

Why?

Near as I can tell, something (previous run of PageStream?) has left the
IFFCTXT. filter (and possibly others) locked and the OS does not release
that lock until the system is rebooted.

Deron

Theo has reported:
This happens from time to time here also with PGS 5.0.5.8. I have PGS 5.0.5.7 also, and after I close 5.0.5.8 and start 5.0.5.7 I can go on like the, little, problem doesn't exist.  So, I don't restart my computer!

That implies to me that 5.0.5.7 treats the situation, whatever it is, differently from 5.0.5.8 and, more importantly, more usefully.

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Changing the subject completely, is it the case that,
if I replace my ageing HP Photosmart 8400 Series inkjet printer
by a PostScript compatible colour laser printer
such as a Kyocera ECOSYS P6021cdn,
my printing problems would vanish, as PageStream
has always liked to print to PostScript printers ?

My only concern is that I want to use two fonts
(Calligrapher and Calibri)
and that printer claims to have
93 scalable fonts for PostScript
which I doubt includes those two.
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Having just drafted the above text,
I ran PageStream5.0.5.8 to check
the name of the first of those two fonts.

Windows 10 Pro claimed the application was unable to start.
I should have snipped the window that came up
but lacked the presence of mind to do so.

So, I shut down and powered up again.
PageStream5.0.5.8 started up as happily as a lamb.
It is as if it is sensitive to the order
in which programs are begun since a reboot.

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