I have used Pagestream since it was Publishing Partner for the Atari ST. Following that, I bought the Pagestream version for Atari, the OS 9 version for Macintosh, and the Pro 4.0 version for Windows. I guess I would call myself a "hobby" DTP user. I have used Pagestream to make a variety of mailing lablels, certificates, newsletters, pamphlets, etc.. ,mostly for myself or my local amateur radio club.

When I bought a new Intel iMac in 2007, it was with some regret that I was purchasing a computer for which no version of Pagestream was then available. I held off buying the current version because it was Beta, so I tried a variety of substitutes, including the page layout section of iWork 08 and a variety of other lower-priced DTP programs available for demo downloads. All worked to a point, but invariably I found something lacking in each of them, in features and in their approach to doing things. There was always something that I either could not do or could only do with the greatest of difficulty in each of these programs. Yesterday I decided to take my chances on the current Beta version of Pagestream for OS X, and, so far, I am extremely pleased with it. It has the "feel" with I am familiar, and doing my various lay-out projects is once again fun and intuitive.

I did run into a small glitch, though, when I was making up a certificate yesterday. When I attempted to compose the word "completion" with the Apple Chancery font, the "l" disappeared, no matter what font size I used. The letter "l" works fine in that font for most words, but not for "completion." If that is the worst of the problems I encounter, I will consider my up-grade purchase to Pagestream OS X a genuine bargain. Thanks for the great program, Deron!

kg8yt wrote:
> I have used Pagestream since it was Publishing Partner for the Atari ST. Following that, I bought the Pagestream version for Atari, the OS 9 version for Macintosh, and the Pro 4.0 version for Windows. I guess I would call myself a "hobby" DTP user. I have used Pagestream to make a variety of mailing lablels, certificates, newsletters, pamphlets, etc.. ,mostly for myself or my local amateur radio club.
>
> When I bought a new Intel iMac in 2007, it was with some regret that I was purchasing a computer for which no version of Pagestream was then available. I held off buying the current version because it was Beta, so I tried a variety of substitutes, including the page layout section of iWork 08 and a variety of other lower-priced DTP programs available for demo downloads. All worked to a point, but invariably I found something lacking in each of them, in features and in their approach to doing things. There was always something that I either could not do or could only do with the greatest of difficulty in each of these programs. Yesterday I decided to take my chances on the current Beta version of Pagestream for OS X, and, so far, I am extremely pleased with it. It has the "feel" with I am familiar, and doing my various lay-out projects is once again fun and intuitive.
>
> I did run into a small glitch, though, when I was making up a certificate yesterday. When I attempted to compose the word "completion" with the Apple Chancery font, the "l" disappeared, no matter what font size I used. The letter "l" works fine in that font for most words, but not for "completion." If that is the worst of the problems I encounter, I will consider my up-grade purchase to Pagestream OS X a genuine bargain. Thanks for the great program, Deron!
>

Welcome back! And thanks for the kind words.

The problem you are having has to do with ligatures. Apple Chancery has
a huge collection of ligatures and it has been an ongoing battle to get
it to work right. I'll take another crack at it. It is one of the few
fonts out there that use the AAT ligatures table and it uses a great
number of unique features of AAT and the Apple documentation is cryptic
at best (if you are looking for a headache, take a look at
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6mort.html)

I won't get a chance to look at it before the next release, but you can
turn ligatures off and "fix" the problem until I do.

Deron

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