Fixed the font substitution requester, gradient/radial fills, initial
window placement, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!

Deron Kazmaier - support@grasshopperllc.com
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.grasshopperllc.com
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

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søn, 2003-10-12 kl. 15:36 skrev PageStream Support:

> Fixed the font substitution requester, gradient/radial fills, initial
> window placement, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!

Hmmmmm .... I have had this problem from the first version of PGS Linux:
When I save the prefs the max and min view is set to 5%

Documet starts endless scrolling in window sometimes (could it be my
wheelmouse?)

"New document" settings is not being saved. Both paper format and right
and bottom margins (left and top margins seems to be saved ...).

Printing to my postscript printer does not work.

Save/print to a PostScriptfile does only make an empty page.

Saving to a PDF file creates an unreadable file.

Using Mandrake 9.1

--
Mvh

Anders

On Sunday 12 October 2003 08:36, PageStream Support wrote:
> Fixed the font substitution requester, gradient/radial fills, initial
> window placement, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!

and there was joy and celebration!

Printing no longer works. The first time I didn't see it go to the printer so
I printed to file and examined it. Essentially all of the postscript sans
picture or text. Tried printing again and saw the printer flash receiving
data, but nothing printed.

The TIF filter is reversing black and white. Also, importing a graphic (to
verify with a second one about the reversal) works but only kind of. PgS
seemed to hang after putting up an empty box so I tried scrolling (to get a
redraw of sections) and things got worse. The display of the page became
"stretched" vertically (actually it was horizontal strips being duplicated).
PgS appeared to quite responding at that point so I quit it.

I can confirm, however, that it pulled the file name for an external graphic
correctly from the path. That's much better (particularly when there are
several on a page).

Also, I believe there is something wrong in the font handling code. I finally
got the compugraphic Times and Triumvirate converted to Type1 and installed
on my system. They worked for Open Office, but PgS simply lists Times four
times (once for each style?) and Triumvirate twice (once for each style?).

Tim Doty

> > Fixed the font substitution requester, gradient/radial fills, initial
> > window placement, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!
>
>and there was joy and celebration!

Evidently that party was cut short... Since most of the rest of the work I
have to do is pretty cut and dry, I am going to try and concentrate on
these issues that are preventing folks from getting in. I will have a new
version in a day or so if anyone having troubles can help identify the problem.

>Printing no longer works. The first time I didn't see it go to the printer so
>I printed to file and examined it. Essentially all of the postscript sans
>picture or text. Tried printing again and saw the printer flash receiving
>data, but nothing printed.

The only thing I can think of that has changed is that postscript fonts are
now downloaded to the printer when needed. Can you print a box? Print Setup
should be working 100% now. Is it configured properly?

>The TIF filter is reversing black and white.

That must be a specific kind of graphic. Can you send a sample to me at
support@grasshopperllc.com?

>Also, importing a graphic (to
>verify with a second one about the reversal) works but only kind of. PgS
>seemed to hang after putting up an empty box so I tried scrolling (to get a
>redraw of sections) and things got worse. The display of the page became
>"stretched" vertically (actually it was horizontal strips being duplicated).
>PgS appeared to quite responding at that point so I quit it.
>
>I can confirm, however, that it pulled the file name for an external graphic
>correctly from the path.

Well, you mean it worked for an Amiga document. The problem was/is that the
file paths are stored in native format. Like work:program\my files\hello
(amiga) or c:/my documents/hello (windows) or work:programs:my files:hello
(mac) or /home/deron/my documents/hello. It has code to try and convert
between, but it doesn't always work right (at the least, it should be able
to pluck out the file name however!). Documents created directly in the
Linux version should not suffer from these problems.

>That's much better (particularly when there are
>several on a page).
>
>Also, I believe there is something wrong in the font handling code. I finally
>got the compugraphic Times and Triumvirate converted to Type1 and installed
>on my system. They worked for Open Office, but PgS simply lists Times four
>times (once for each style?) and Triumvirate twice (once for each style?).

Hmm. I am just using fontconfig/freetype. Can you send them to me privately?

>Tim Doty

Deron Kazmaier - support@grasshopperllc.com
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.grasshopperllc.com
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

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> >Printing no longer works. The first time I didn't see it go to the
> > printer so I printed to file and examined it. Essentially all of
> > the postscript sans picture or text. Tried printing again and saw
> > the printer flash receiving data, but nothing printed.
>
> The only thing I can think of that has changed is that postscript
> fonts are now downloaded to the printer when needed. Can you print a
> box? Print Setup should be working 100% now. Is it configured
> properly?

I cleaned out all the old PgS files & started anew with the latest
version. I have printing now...didn't before.

> >The TIF filter is reversing black and white.

.tif is reversed on screen (did that before), but prints correctly. No
problem with a small graphic .jpeg & a large photo.jpeg added to page.
2 were originally Amiga files that I have coverted in Windows PS &
Linux gimp...the small graphic came off the NET. All 3 printed
correctly as well, but if i have a fontPgS doesn't
like...nothing.....just a few seconds printer activity. It prints some
of my strange fancy P22 fonts doesn't some very standard fonts...seems
to me any PS font shown in program should work...or do I live in a
bubble ;^).

--
Gracia...living in Cooleemee, NC
Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 8.2 Pro
yahoo....n 1: not very intelligent or interested in culture

> > >Printing no longer works. The first time I didn't see it go to the
> > > printer so I printed to file and examined it. Essentially all of
> > > the postscript sans picture or text. Tried printing again and saw
> > > the printer flash receiving data, but nothing printed.
> >
> > The only thing I can think of that has changed is that postscript
> > fonts are now downloaded to the printer when needed. Can you print a
> > box? Print Setup should be working 100% now. Is it configured
> > properly?
>
>I cleaned out all the old PgS files & started anew with the latest
>version. I have printing now...didn't before.

That is strange. I didn't change any file names, or the number of files, so
shouldn't be anything left behind after overwriting the old, but hey,
stranger things have happened!

> > >The TIF filter is reversing black and white.
>
>.tif is reversed on screen (did that before), but prints correctly.

Yes, I have verified that. Any grayscale image (that is actually imported
as a grayscale, not just a monochromatic palette picture or RGB or CMYK
or...) will be displayed inverted. Already fixed. Also found a problem
where masked graphics did not display masked. Also fixed.

>... if i have a fontPgS doesn't
>like...nothing.....just a few seconds printer activity. It prints some
>of my strange fancy P22 fonts doesn't some very standard fonts...seems
>to me any PS font shown in program should work...or do I live in a
>bubble ;^).

No, any Type1 font should print properly. TrueType fonts should display
correctly, but print using Courier.

I'll start running down the list of installed Type1 fonts and see if I have
any that don't print. Maybe the fonts have funny encoding and the code gets
ticked off?

>Gracia...living in Cooleemee, NC
>Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 8.2 Pro
>yahoo....n 1: not very intelligent or interested in culture

Deron Kazmaier - support@grasshopperllc.com
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.grasshopperllc.com
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

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First, something that just bit me. Computer power cycled (long story, but I no
longer have a front USB port) and PgS generated a gconf error every time I
ran it indicating that there was a problem loading my settings. I was sure
that this had happened to me before, but I couldn't find a fix. Finally
located one via google: cd $HOME; rm -rf .gconf*/*lock*

Apparently gconf is pretty brittle so if anyone else ends up with a crashed
machine knowing this may come in handy.

Anyway:

On Sunday 12 October 2003 16:01, PageStream Support wrote:
> > > Fixed the font substitution requester, gradient/radial fills, initial
> > > window placement, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!
> >
> >and there was joy and celebration!
>
> Evidently that party was cut short... Since most of the rest of the work I
> have to do is pretty cut and dry, I am going to try and concentrate on
> these issues that are preventing folks from getting in. I will have a new
> version in a day or so if anyone having troubles can help identify the
> problem.
>
> >Printing no longer works. The first time I didn't see it go to the printer
> > so I printed to file and examined it. Essentially all of the postscript
> > sans picture or text. Tried printing again and saw the printer flash
> > receiving data, but nothing printed.
>
> The only thing I can think of that has changed is that postscript fonts are
> now downloaded to the printer when needed. Can you print a box? Print Setup
> should be working 100% now. Is it configured properly?

I printed a box successfully. Added text to the page and it printed as well.
Loaded up a previous (PgS Amiga) document, printed one page (consisting of a
single two-column text frame and one frameless text object) successfully.
Note sure what is different now (well, lots, actually. I reinstalled my
system over the weekend moving from a 3GB IDE boot drive to a 9GB SCSI boot
drive.) I dunno.

>
> >The TIF filter is reversing black and white.
>
> That must be a specific kind of graphic. Can you send a sample to me at
> support@grasshopperllc.com?

Sure can. Although I noticed Gracia mentioned about printing fine and I
checked and they do. I guess I jumped to the conclusion because the graphics
display correctly on PgS Amiga (via UAE). Is the linux tif filter yours, or
does it just call one of the linux libraries? Well, the files display
correctly using pixie at any rate.
>
> >Also, importing a graphic (to
> >verify with a second one about the reversal) works but only kind of. PgS
> >seemed to hang after putting up an empty box so I tried scrolling (to get
> > a redraw of sections) and things got worse. The display of the page
> > became "stretched" vertically (actually it was horizontal strips being
> > duplicated). PgS appeared to quite responding at that point so I quit it.
> >
> >I can confirm, however, that it pulled the file name for an external
> > graphic correctly from the path.
>
> Well, you mean it worked for an Amiga document. The problem was/is that the
> file paths are stored in native format. Like work:program\my files\hello
> (amiga) or c:/my documents/hello (windows) or work:programs:my files:hello
> (mac) or /home/deron/my documents/hello. It has code to try and convert
> between, but it doesn't always work right (at the least, it should be able
> to pluck out the file name however!). Documents created directly in the
> Linux version should not suffer from these problems.

It would be nice to just be able to substitute out the paths. They are nearly
identical: as far as linux is concerned the amiga drives are addressed as
/amiga/<lower cased drive name>. Oh well, at least now I now which file it is
trying to find.

>
> >That's much better (particularly when there are
> >several on a page).
> >
> >Also, I believe there is something wrong in the font handling code. I
> > finally got the compugraphic Times and Triumvirate converted to Type1 and
> > installed on my system. They worked for Open Office, but PgS simply lists
> > Times four times (once for each style?) and Triumvirate twice (once for
> > each style?).
>
> Hmm. I am just using fontconfig/freetype. Can you send them to me
> privately?

Sure thing. The pfb's were generated by PgS Amiga, the afm's were created by
TypeSmith originally, though I later loaded the fonts into Pfaedit to fix a
couple of things and regenerated the font files from there.

Tim Doty