Steven Meloche
From: United States
Registered: 2006-03-31
Posts: 69
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It's been a while since I played around with the beta, so I thought I
would try it out some more. Some may be repeats - it's been months.
1. General robustness - medium
Seems to be better than previous 4.1.6 betas but still crashes a
lot when I am doing simple stuff. For instance, I placed a JPG on the
page, cropped it and clicked on it with the text tool, typed some text
over the picture and then tried to manipulate it. It crashed twice in
a row. Now that I have gone back and tried to get it to fail for the
third time I am not finding the sequence of events that caused it.
Sorry. I will try to characterize this one better, if it is just a
single bug. Anyway, it crashed several times when I was changing fonts.
2. Old bugs from 4.1.5.8
STYLE BUG - I have been going crazy with styles on 4.1.5.8 lately.
I make a three page doc, put linked text frames on the three pages,
and start typing paragraphs. I use a basic Body Text style (Times New
Roman, 12pt) for the whole thing, then use a special style on
individual words (based on Body Text except bolded and Courier New
font). Every time I pick and put a block of text (whether it contains
either of the above styles only or both of them) all text in the
document suddenly switches to a smaller Arial font regardless of what
it had previously been. If I select it with the mouse it is shown as
"Body Text+". Clicking on "Body Text+" in the style requestor
sometimes fixes the problem, sometimes it doesn't. I loaded the
document I was working on into 4.1.6.33 and tried picking and putting
- the problem was still there. [SAME]
Postscript printing landscape docs in 4.1.5.8 did not work very
well. Most pages were messed up if they included text and graphics.
Various elements would be rotated at weird multiples of 90 degrees
from where they should be. Now it appears that the whole page is
rotated, but the paper is not, so that sides of the page are cut off.
[WORSE] Also, now many fonts seem to be missing (replaced by Courier)
in the printout [WORSE]
Arrows: In 4.1.5.8 arrowheads went beyond the line end. in
4.1.6.33 that is fixed! [BETTER]
3: New bugs
The 4.1.6.33 beta still does not show all my fonts. I know that I
wrote about that before so I will not belabor it here. Deron - was my
registry info useful on that or should I supply any other data?
4: Unfinished features in 4.1.5.8
PDF export had a few problems:
(a) fonts not embedded
(b) applied styles not exported
(c) gradients not exported
(d) crops on pictures not exported
In 4.1.6.33 this is the status of these:
(a) (have to check this one later -
requires using a computer missing
one of the fonts that I use)
(b) Some applied styles are now exported [BETTER]
(c) Gradients still not exported [SAME]
(d) Crops on pictures still not exported.
5: Other comments:
Requestors look ever cleaner and are more functional.
Still easy to crash when playing with tables, just like 4.1.5.8
That's all for now. Back to 4.1.5.8 until the next beta comes along.
Will that be soon? I have a 24 page calendar that has every page in
landscape (wider than taller on the screen, printed in landscape on
the printer). I can only print it on my deskjet. If I try to export
in PDF it loses fonts, styles, crops and gradient fills. If I try to
print as a generic poststript printer, save to file, and convert to
pdf using another utility, I get the correct fonts (in 4.1.5.8, not
4.1.6.33), cropped bitmaps and gradient fills but objects move around
in a weird way and mess up the page worse. I would much rather
distribute the calendar as PDF or print a final on a laser printer,
but it is still not possible. Any information I can provide on this,
I would be willing to provide!
Steve Meloche
dmeloche@san.rr.com
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