Hi!

I like PageStream. It is easy to use, and it has a lot of nice
features. But - it still crashes now and then. Not only that, it
might
also destroy the file I am working on completely while it crashes.

I am using it, among other things, to write an annual report at work.
This is a document of about 50 pages and 10 chapters. I prefer to use
PageStream for this. (My other optinons are Word or Framemaker.)
PageStream has a very nice way to make multichapter documents. This
work means that I copy text from word-files sent to me by my
collegues, and I paste this text into PageStream.

Yesterday I was almost finished with the report after a very
productive day. Then I saved the document. While I was saving,
PageStream crashed. When I tried to reopen the document it was
corrupted. The same shit happened to me last year. Then I had a
backupfile, so I didn't loose so much work. But this time I had
forgotten to specify the directory for backup files, so I lost
everything. Fortunately the file was on a server, so I got the
backupfile from the day before. Fortunately I had also saved a PDF-
file just before the crash, so I can copy back the text I had been
working on yesterday. But it is a lot of work to get everything back.

To paste the text back I tried first to convert the PDF-file to RTF,
but that didn't work. Adobe Acrobat reports that the PDF file is bad.
So I have to copy directly from Acrobat. That means some extra work
too, since special characters won't copy directly.

I wonder what is the reason for this crash, and why it also corrupts
the file. I can send you the file I am working on, if it is any help
for you.

I have PageStream Pro 5.0.1.37, and a quite new computer running
Windows XP.

best wishes

Trond Einar Garmo