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Today was the first time that I was able to actually get as far as
saving a file from PS4. Created a text box, some random text, changed
the fonts a couple of times (this is where things usually segfaulted
for me before).

A couple of things I noticed,

first a little background.
I have used PS2.2 on the Amiga, but I don't really do alot of page
processing.

My main linux desktop is KDE3.14 on SuSE linux 8.1, xfree86 4.2.0

I vaguely remember the font selection method from the Amiga version but
it doesn't seem to really work the same in kde.

If I create a Text frame in my new document, the "edit palette" pops up
as it should, when I select a font to use the project window does not
become active automatically, the problem then - if I start typing - the
text I type ends up in the "font" box of the "edit palette" not in the
text frame.
If on the other hand I select a font and then click on the project
window to make it active the font reverts to the default and that is
what ends up appearing on screen. It is possible to select text that
has already been typed (in a text frame,etc) and change the font, but
this seems like an extra step.
Especially when creating a frameless text object.

The edit palette window refuses to remember the position I've chosen for
it. It always opens at the bottom of the screen so I have to move it
before I can view the contents of the drop down font selector.
This is a real pain!!!

Drop down font selector seems to behave inconsistantly, sometimes it
will "drop up" to screen height (if the edit palette is at the bottom
of the screen) but without a scroll bar, other times only a small drop
up appears. When the "edit palette" is at the top of the screen the
font selector appears as I would expect.

I put the pagestream folder in /opt/pgs/41/
When I try to open a document, PageStream starts at that folder.
(until I've changed the preferences)
It seems to me that the users home directory (/home/myName/Documents/
Pagestream or something similar) would be a better default location for
files than /opt... as only root will be allowed (normally) to write
there, the other problem is that less experienced users seem to have a
hard time navigating from the root filesystem to their home directory.

Show toolbar doesn't work here.

File and folder selection (browser) in the preferences section do not
pass their result to the string gadget, folder paths need to be typed
in instead (I think this is a known problem)

I'll finish with a question, (as I recieved my first segfault with this
version (41h) while trying to print). Is there a way to direct
PageStream to use kprinter (and therefore cups) as my default printer?

Thanks for your efforts, things truly seem to be improving.

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dh
Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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>I vaguely remember the font selection method from the Amiga version but
>it doesn't seem to really work the same in kde.

Yea, the program currently does not redirect focus back to the main window
after selecting a font. I've writen it down. Thanks!

>The edit palette window refuses to remember the position I've chosen for
>it. It always opens at the bottom of the screen so I have to move it
>before I can view the contents of the drop down font selector.
>This is a real pain!!!

Did you choose "remember window positions"?

I've always hated that it doesn't automatically remember window positions,
but I was out voted years ago. Never did change it now that I've got all
the votes

>Drop down font selector seems to behave inconsistantly, sometimes it
>will "drop up" to screen height (if the edit palette is at the bottom
>of the screen) but without a scroll bar, other times only a small drop
>up appears. When the "edit palette" is at the top of the screen the
>font selector appears as I would expect.

Still working on this. Use the font menu item instead. (Also, a font
chooser with preview is coming in the next release).

>I put the pagestream folder in /opt/pgs/41/
>When I try to open a document, PageStream starts at that folder.
>(until I've changed the preferences)
>It seems to me that the users home directory (/home/myName/Documents/
>Pagestream or something similar) would be a better default location for
>files than /opt... as only root will be allowed (normally) to write
>there, the other problem is that less experienced users seem to have a
>hard time navigating from the root filesystem to their home directory.

OK, I can default to the home directory. Can't really default to
~/Documents/PageStream unless the installer starts creating such a folder.
Besides, I don't think that a documents folder is consistently available on
all distros

>Show toolbar doesn't work here.

Opps. Thanks! Toolbox is also screwed up. Forgot to put that on the buglist.

>I'll finish with a question, (as I recieved my first segfault with this
>version (41h) while trying to print). Is there a way to direct
>PageStream to use kprinter (and therefore cups) as my default printer?

PageStream uses CUPS. Just right now, you have to pick the PPD in print
setup. In the future, CUPS should be providing that info back to PageStream
automatically.

>Thanks for your efforts, things truly seem to be improving.
>
>
>- --
>dh
>Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!

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

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Hi,

The current release of PageStream for Linux does support internal
scripting, but it still does not have any external scripting support. The
current thought is that Python is probably the best multiplatform scripting
language for PageStream.

So, do we have any Python users here? I'm looking for a hand in creating
some simple test scripts, and also to see how the PageStream interface
would be best implemented.

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

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On Monday 13 October 2003 08:16 am, PageStream Support wrote:
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>
> >The edit palette window refuses to remember the position I've chosen
> > for it. It always opens at the bottom of the screen so I have to
> > move it before I can view the contents of the drop down font
> > selector. This is a real pain!!!
>
> Did you choose "remember window positions"?

Yes I tried it numerous times, I am worried that it may be some fact of
life associated with running gtk/gnome applications on the kde desktop,
I hope I'm wrong...
>
> I've always hated that it doesn't automatically remember window
> positions, but I was out voted years ago. Never did change it now
> that I've got all the votes
>
> >Drop down font selector seems to behave inconsistantly, sometimes it
> >will "drop up" to screen height (if the edit palette is at the
> > bottom of the screen) but without a scroll bar, other times only a
> > small drop up appears. When the "edit palette" is at the top of the
> > screen the font selector appears as I would expect.
>
> Still working on this. Use the font menu item instead. (Also, a font
> chooser with preview is coming in the next release).

Cool

> >I put the pagestream folder in /opt/pgs/41/
> >When I try to open a document, PageStream starts at that folder.
> >(until I've changed the preferences)
> >It seems to me that the users home directory
> > (/home/myName/Documents/ Pagestream or something similar) would be
> > a better default location for files than /opt... as only root will
> > be allowed (normally) to write there, the other problem is that
> > less experienced users seem to have a hard time navigating from the
> > root filesystem to their home directory.
>
> OK, I can default to the home directory. Can't really default to
> ~/Documents/PageStream unless the installer starts creating such a
> folder. Besides, I don't think that a documents folder is
> consistently available on all distros

The home directory seems like a great place, keeps new users from
getting too lost.

> >Show toolbar doesn't work here.
>
> Opps. Thanks! Toolbox is also screwed up. Forgot to put that on the
> buglist.
>
> >I'll finish with a question, (as I recieved my first segfault with
> > this version (41h) while trying to print). Is there a way to direct
> > PageStream to use kprinter (and therefore cups) as my default
> > printer?
>
> PageStream uses CUPS. Just right now, you have to pick the PPD in
> print setup. In the future, CUPS should be providing that info back
> to PageStream automatically.

Thanks for your reply and the good work.

See ya
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dh
Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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> > >The edit palette window refuses to remember the position I've chosen
> > > for it. It always opens at the bottom of the screen so I have to
> > > move it before I can view the contents of the drop down font
> > > selector. This is a real pain!!!
> >
> > Did you choose "remember window positions"?
>
>Yes I tried it numerous times, I am worried that it may be some fact of
>life associated with running gtk/gnome applications on the kde desktop,
>I hope I'm wrong...

No, doesn't have anything to do with that. The real problem is that placing
windows under program control is not well supported on Linux. Seems that
the underlying X server likes to decide for itself where the windows should
go. It took a lot of back and forth to get things to show up reasonable
well using the defaults (ie, get rid of your prefs and see how windows open
now).

>dh

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

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