Hi Deron

On my Win98 I have Norton CrashGuard running - which doesn't really
keep PageStream from crashing ( ) but stores detailed information
in a protocol. When trying to save a PDF a crash resultet in the
following protocol entry:

ReportedBy=CrashGuard v4.0.1
ReportDate=24.09.00 18:24:31
Program=E:\PROGRAMME\PAGESTREAM\PAGESTREAM4.EXE
ProgramDate=09/20/00 21:37
ProgramSize=2276864
Fault=#c0000005
Module=MSVCRT.DLL
Address=0187:780018e2
WindowTitle=PageStream4
LastMsg=("PageStream4", WM_COMMAND, MenuItem: "File/Save as PDF...",
00000000)
AppCrashes=0
ThisCrash=0
REGS:EAX:008c0078 CS=0187 EIP=780018e2 EFLGS=00010283 EBX=0000003f
SS=018f ESP=008af900 EBP=008af91c ECX=00000002 DS=018f
ESI=78000000
FS=1327 EDX=00000001 ES=018f EDI=00000012 GS=0000
CSEIP=89 4e 04 8b 4d 0c 8b 71 04 8b 49 08 89 4e 08 8b
Stack=00a66f70 00000000 00a60e80 008c2604 00000000 00000000 00000020
008af954 78001519 009c000c 00a66f6c 00a66f70 00a66f7c 00a60e80
009c000c 00a35828

I can't do much with this info, I'm no programmer - but maybe it's
helpful to you? Shall I continue to post this entries from the
CrashGuard protocol?

Besides...
I played around with the "Save to PDF". So far I managed to create
simple pdf-documents (containing a simple text object with "Hello
World" or/and a JPEG picture) that could be displayed in Acrobat
Reader 4 without problems.
But I found a problem with a document (just one page, some text, a
circle with radial fill and a GIF picture) that was created with an
earlier version of PageStream for Windows. PageStream gives me some
weird font name, like "||*||" for all the text (was in Arial when the
document was created). Trying to save this document to PDF results in
a crash. Although when I manually select the text and set it back to
Arial, saving to PDF works (but the circle loses its radial fill and
just gets a solid fill).

So far my experience with pdf.

Regards
Roland Knecht

>I can't do much with this info, I'm no programmer - but maybe it's
>helpful to you? Shall I continue to post this entries from the
>CrashGuard protocol?

Nope, doesn't do me any good. I suppose if I took the time to look into it
I could use that info, but actually knowning how to reproduce it is _much_
more useful!

> PageStream gives me some
>weird font name, like "||*||" for all the text (was in Arial when the
>document was created). Trying to save this document to PDF results in
>a crash. Although when I manually select the text and set it back to
>Arial, saving to PDF works (but the circle loses its radial fill and
>just gets a solid fill).

Radial fills are not supported in our PDF export, so that is to be expected.

As fas as the font problem, I don't have a clue. Your welcome to email me
the document at support@softlogik.com and I'll take a look at it.

>Roland Knecht

Deron Kazmaier - support@softlogik.com
Grasshopper Publishing LLC -http://www.softlogik.com
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--- In PageStreamWindowsBeta@egroups.com, SoftLogik Support
<support@s...> wrote:

> Radial fills are not supported in our PDF export, so that is
> to be expected.

Does this mean "not implemented yet" or "not on the features list"?
In case of the latter I think you could drop the Save to PDF and
advise your customers to use Adobe Acrobat or some other stand alone
PDF creator because "kind of PDF export" isn't much of use...

> As fas as the font problem, I don't have a clue. Your welcome to
> email me the document at support@s... and I'll take a look at it.

I have done so.
Right now I saw my default font in PGS seems to be "||*||" too.
In Pagestream4.ini I have the line "SETFONT Helvetica" (some default?)
but have no Helvetica installed on my system.

Kind regards
Roland Knecht