Addendum to message below: Having nothing to lose, I tried to open a
Mac PageStream file in the most recent Windows beta Pro version, and
much to my shock it opened with everything intact except for some
filled boxes used as drop shadows! I am amazed at the amount of work
Deron has put into these different versions of PageStream to the
point that a file can be so cross-platform adaptable.

Because I am frequently out of town I rely on my Mac laptop to get
things done, so I am anxious to have that version up & running again.
(No, I don't have Windows running on the Mac. There is a reason why I
migrated to Macintosh in the first place....) It is great having a
backup on my Windows tower, which I keep only for two programs:
PageStream and Legacy Family Tree.

Marilynn DeSilva

> A few releases ago this program was usable, i.e., there was a
> workaround for most of the glitches, but the last few releases have
> accumulated problems that make PageStream no longer viable.
>
> System: 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4; OS X 10.4.11; 1 GB RAM; HP Photosmart
> 8450
>
> 1. Won't print current document; indicates that printing is taking
> place but never does.
> 2. Certain fonts appear correctly in document, but sooner or later
> the characters are replaced by boxes (can happen same session or
> when doc is loaded at another time).
>
> However the above two points are moot since issue #3 surfaced, viz,
>
> 3. Worst problem to date: I had been using this version (5.0.4.21)
> for about a week, saving documents as jpegs for printing, when one
> day PgS crashed upon every attempt to create a new document or open
> those previously created in this very same version. In other words,
> all I get is the opening interface with tips I can step through.
> Prefs button works as well (although I didn't check to see what
> would happen if I changed any Prefs). So I downloaded the latest
> PgS version again and reinstalled it, but it still crashes after
> several seconds of trying to start or open a document. (The far
> right edge of the screen displays the right edge of the doc window,
> i.e., the scroll bar, during the attempt to open it.)
>
> There are other problems with the Mac release, such as not
> embedding fonts in PDF files, gradients not translating to PDF,
> etc., but I can live with these if only I could actually use the
> program. When PageStream is functional it is the best app out
> there, but right now I am facing recreating all my current mixed
> text/image/table documents in some other Mac application that
> simply cannot handle such a mix the way PageStream can.
>
> Please help! Thanks for any speedy solutions.
>
> Marilynn DeSilva
>

Hi Again,

Everything should load the same between platforms except any external
font differences. The drop shadows as well. When you get the Mac version
loading documents for you again, would you please check that document
and make sure the drop shadows are displaying the same between the two.

I forgot to address your PDF issues from the previous email. Fonts have
been embedding for a long time now and still do so for me, and the only
shaded fills that don't display in a PDF are the shape fills. Gradient
and radial fills should be displaying just fine in Acrobat Reader. Some
of the non-linear ramp gradient/radial fills don't display in Apple's
Preview but that is a bug on their end that I haven't worked around yet.

Deron

> Addendum to message below: Having nothing to lose, I tried to open a
> Mac PageStream file in the most recent Windows beta Pro version, and
> much to my shock it opened with everything intact except for some
> filled boxes used as drop shadows! I am amazed at the amount of work
> Deron has put into these different versions of PageStream to the
> point that a file can be so cross-platform adaptable.
>
> Because I am frequently out of town I rely on my Mac laptop to get
> things done, so I am anxious to have that version up & running again.
> (No, I don't have Windows running on the Mac. There is a reason why I
> migrated to Macintosh in the first place....) It is great having a
> backup on my Windows tower, which I keep only for two programs:
> PageStream and Legacy Family Tree.
>
> Marilynn DeSilva
>
>
>> A few releases ago this program was usable, i.e., there was a
>> workaround for most of the glitches, but the last few releases have
>> accumulated problems that make PageStream no longer viable.
>>
>> System: 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4; OS X 10.4.11; 1 GB RAM; HP Photosmart
>> 8450
>>
>> 1. Won't print current document; indicates that printing is taking
>> place but never does.
>> 2. Certain fonts appear correctly in document, but sooner or later
>> the characters are replaced by boxes (can happen same session or
>> when doc is loaded at another time).
>>
>> However the above two points are moot since issue #3 surfaced, viz,
>>
>> 3. Worst problem to date: I had been using this version (5.0.4.21)
>> for about a week, saving documents as jpegs for printing, when one
>> day PgS crashed upon every attempt to create a new document or open
>> those previously created in this very same version. In other words,
>> all I get is the opening interface with tips I can step through.
>> Prefs button works as well (although I didn't check to see what
>> would happen if I changed any Prefs). So I downloaded the latest
>> PgS version again and reinstalled it, but it still crashes after
>> several seconds of trying to start or open a document. (The far
>> right edge of the screen displays the right edge of the doc window,
>> i.e., the scroll bar, during the attempt to open it.)
>>
>> There are other problems with the Mac release, such as not
>> embedding fonts in PDF files, gradients not translating to PDF,
>> etc., but I can live with these if only I could actually use the
>> program. When PageStream is functional it is the best app out
>> there, but right now I am facing recreating all my current mixed
>> text/image/table documents in some other Mac application that
>> simply cannot handle such a mix the way PageStream can.
>>
>> Please help! Thanks for any speedy solutions.
>>
>> Marilynn DeSilva
>>
>>
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