Paul E. Bloedel
From: United States
Registered: 2006-03-01
Posts: 11
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Hi Deron,
No comments from me about your specific questions; but just a word of thanks regarding your continued work on the Amiga version of PageStream. Right now, PageStream 5 does not work at all on OS4.x; so any improvement in this area is much appreciated.
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, PageStream Support <deron@pagestream.org> wrote:
> From: PageStream Support <deron@pagestream.org>
> Subject: [PageStreamAmigaBeta] Input requested on next PageStream5 Amiga release
> To: "pgsamibeta" <PagestreamAmigaBeta@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 10:01 AM
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> Hi,
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> I'm still stuck on a couple minor points, but I am much
> further along
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> and I hope to have something in the next few days. Just
> pray for my
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> sanity! This has _not_ been fun. It should have been much
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> an update together, plus it really hurts financially to
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> spent this much time on it and not be done!
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> So far I have not fixed many previous PageStream5 MUI bugs
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> the hangups noted in the MOS/OS4 versions will mostly still
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> considering that many folks have not been able to run
> PageStream at all,
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> it will still be a big step forward for them plus of course
> the new
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> features. I'll go into this more when I actually upload
> a release. For
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> example, I do not have any of the filters compiled that use
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> modules (jpeg, jpeg2000, png, and pdf document) but that
> could change
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> depending on how much trouble they present.
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> I have basically had to rewrite lcms (the new color
> management routines
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> that I am using on other platforms), and write my own c
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> that it crashes as soon as a document window is displayed,
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> the window gets displayed etc which is way more than it was
> doing.
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> Anyway, I had 2 questions. One is with preferences files
> location. With
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> the latest PageStream5 on other platforms, they all (Linux,
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> Windows) support multiple users so I have created a
> preferences folder
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> which contains all the user modified parts. User spelling,
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> hyphenation, the actual preferences file, font substutition
> etc. So when
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> you have multiple versions installed, they all use the same
> preferences.
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> I store it in a user folder so that multiple users can each
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> different configuration. The default preferences folder is
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> PageStream executable folder much like before (but in its
> own folder) so
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> that an administrator could still configure a prefered
> default.
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> Now, we don't really have a multi user ability on the
> Amiga, but it
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> would still be nice to keep the user's preferences
> folder somewhere
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> besides inside the pagestream executable folder. So does
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> recommendation? No clear winner to me, but it would have to
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> an assign that is common to every installation.
> Suggestions?
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> The other question is lowest 68k CPU still in use. Right
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> compiling for 68020 and above. We have always compiled for
> just 68000,
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> but I just can't imagine anyone would be using
> PageStream5 on a 68000.
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> While I think PageStream is still lean for what it does, it
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> Thanks,
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> Deron
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> --
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> Deron Kazmaier - support@pagestream.
> org
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> Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.pagestre
> am.org
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> PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows
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