Printer's Apprentice Version History
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Printer's Apprentice 7.21 - 2/12/2002
- Fixed some more ATM related code.
- Fixed a bug that caused PA to not detect Windows XP correctly.
Printer's Apprentice 7.20 - 12/31/2001
- Fixed a bug in the Options dialog. If you changed any of the text on the
Quotes tab, the new text would not be immediately displayed in the
Sample Text drop down list boxes on the Font Catalogs and Sample Sheets
tabs.
- When you press an alphanumeric key, the Single Character view (in main
window) will jump to that character. The function now ignores keypresses
that include the CTRL key.
- This version ships with ShowATM=1 in the PA.INI. This forces Printer's
Apprentice to show Adobe Type 1 fonts by default.
- Removed code that would disable the "ATM Path" text field and
"Show Adobe Type 1 fonts" checkbox if Adobe Type Manager was not installed.
On some systems, my routines for detecting ATM installtion is not working
properly.
- On the Options dialog, the Open File dialog box that opens when you click the
ATM Path "..." button was not properly display only EXE files. This has
been fixed. The Open File dialog is also now modal.
Printer's Apprentice 7.19 - 11/13/2001
- Fixed detection code for Adobe Type Manager. If ATM is installed,
it is now correctly detected. (A typo in the previous version, amoung
other things, prevented the detection from working correctly.)
- Added code to detect if we are running under Windows XP. This is in
here so future PA versions can take advantage of XP features.
Printer's Apprentice 7.18 - 10/08/2001
- Added code to startup to detect if the PA.INI file is missing. If the
PA.INI file is missing, the software will now show an alert message
and the end.
- Added code to prevent sudden freezes, crashes, unloading, etc when resizing
the font lists on the right side and group list on the left side of the main screen.
- Fixed bugs in the "quotes" feature (sample text strings used on the printed page)
that affected both the sample sheets and catalogs. In some cases, when using a quote,
it would not print or it would print a different quote than what was specified.
- Replaced the generic "header" option for printed sample sheets with
left & right footers. This is actually more descriptive of what happens on the
printed page.
- Added additional error checking code in order to prevent the software from
sometimes freezing on startup.
- All printed catalogs and sample sheets now have a printed watermark
if the software is in evaluation mode.
- A new screen now appears when exiting the software when it is in
evaluation mode.
- Removed the option to Check Components on Startup. The Desaware Version
Stamper tools are no longer used to check OCX & DLL files, so this checkbox
on the Options screen should have been removed a long time ago.
- Added improved checking for Adobe Type Manager installation under
Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000.
- If ATM is not installed, the ATM Path field on the Options screen will display
an "Adobe Type Manager not installed" message.
Printer's Apprentice 7.17 - 07/09/2001
- Added a Four Column catalog layout
- You can now set the size of the on screen Character Set grid.
It can by 2x2 cells all the way up to 10x10 cells. Additional
settings for the grid are also available on the Options dialog.
- In catalogs and sample sheets, you can now use the font name
itself for the sample text. This has been a requested over
and over again and I'm pleased to have finally integrated the
function into the product.
Note that the Six Up Catalog and Bar Divided catalog do
not use the user defined sample text - they are hard
coded to use a long AaBbCcDdEetc string.
- On the font catalogs, if you change the Options to not print
any of the font details (name, file size, etc), then the line
spacing adjusts itself automatically. You can now fit over
300 fonts on the Three Column catalog if you print at 8 points
and elect *not* to print any of the font details.
- Changes to Three Up catalog:
The line of 72 point text now uses the selected sample string
instead of the "AaBbCcXxYyZz" text. This was done for
consistence. Also, the Normal, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic
indicators were broken. These now detect the available styles
and print accordingly.
The Three Up catalog now also prints a line of 16 point text
in each section.
- More code trimming. I eliminated the need for the dwcbk32.ocx
and dwspy36.dll files. For those who understand API calls,
these provided callback capabilities for early versions of VB.
VB now provides hooks for native callbacks via the AddressOf
operator so the OCX and DLL files are no longer needed.
- Fixed a bug that would make the Sample Text tab sometimes not
display italic fonts correctly.
- Improved and reorganized screen resizing code.
- Added an option so PA does not verify the paper size before
printing. Some print drivers (HP 932c?) do not report the paper
size correctly back to PA. If your PA.INI has the following
entry under the [PA] section, then PA will not check for
8.5x11 or A4 paper.
VerifyPaperSize = 0
Setting the VerifyPaperSize = 1 will enable the strict paper
size checking and will PA print only on 8.5x11 or A4.
Printer's Apprentice 7.16 - 03/23/2001
- Eliminated the need for comdlg32.ocx. This shaves about 140k off
the installed footprint of the app. However, this lead to one problem.
The File|Printer Setup dialog was generated with assistance from
comdlg32.ocx. I could not get my API based Printer Setup dialog working
reliably. So, for the time being, the File|Printer Setup menu item
has been removed.
The work-around is to simply use the Windows Control Panel to setup
your printer before you use Printer's Apprentice.
In the interest of shipping a leaner (code-wise) product, I think
the removal of the Printer Setup menu item is justified.
- Fixed a flaw in the watermark that prints on pages when the
software is in unregistered mode.
- Fixed a few display buggies in the main window status bar. Sometimes
the status bar would display "1 font selected" even if there were no
fonts displayed.
Printer's Apprentice 7.15 - 3/16/2001
- Previous versions required that a printer be installed in order to
use the software. THis restriction has been removed.
- If you don't have a printer installed, PA gently reminds you of this
fact if you do try to print.
Printer's Apprentice 7.14 - 03/07/2001
- Added a status bar at the bottom that shows the number of fonts
in a list and the number of fonts selected.
- Other minor cosmetic fixes have been applied. Some 3D effects on the main
window have been removed, the sizer bar between the Installed List
and font window is wider, etc.
- When selected, some menu items were not showing help text
in the status bar (on the main window).
- Trimmed out some unused subroutines and other code bloat.
- Added additional error checking code in the startup routines. Hopefully
this will avoid some of the "Invalid Property" and "Index Out of Bounds"
errors that have been popping up.
- Fixed a problem on the TrueType information tab. The Trademark &
Copyright information was not being displayed correctly. Thanks to
Rich Kamionek for pointing this out to me.
- If you are running Windows NT/2000, the Adobe toolbar icon is
now displayed only if you have ATM installed. Windows NT and
2000 have native Type 1 support built in, but the ATM icon was
displaying.
- The Registry (Tools | Font Registry menu) now defaults to being
sorted by font name.
- The "Print All Fonts In Path"/"Print Font Groups" dialog is now
modal. It also displays the correct number of fonts to be printed.
(It was off by one.)
- When accessing the Options dialog box from the
"Print All Fonts In Path" screen, the correct tab is now preselected.
- When accessing the Options dialog box from the
"Print" dialog, the correct tab is now preselected.
- The Six Up Catalog was not properly printing the font file name
based on the Options "Print Full File Path" setting. This has
been fixed. Thanks to Gary Varner for pointing this out.
- When printing the Six Up Catalog, the progress bar on the
Print dialog was not being updated correctly.
Printer's Apprentice 7.13 - 10/23/2000
- This version has been rebuilt with Visual Studio Service Pack 4.
- Fixed a problem with multiple select and drag operations in the fonts
listboxes on the main screen. It was often difficult to select multiple
fonts then drag them to Font Groups or another folder.
- Adobe Type 1 fonts under Windows 2000 are now recognized.
- On the Font Information tab, the software now displays a red Adobe icon
if a Type 1 font is selected.
- Found and fixed a coding problem that could cause a 'mystery' GPF on startup.
- Added additional code to detect problamatic fonts. A font called
"Mr. Larry Tate" has no characters in it and caused PA to crash
when it was read. Thanks to Rich K. for sending me information on this.
- Added additional error checking code on startup.
- Added verification code to detect non-TrueType fonts that may have a
.TTF extension.
- Added code to detect if the PAPARA1.TXT and PAPARA2.TXT files have been
deleted.
- On the Font Information tab, the font vendor text was not being updated
correctly. This has been fixed.
- Web links within the software have been updated to reflect changes in our
web site structure.
- Improved code for determining the Windows OS version that
is currently running.
- Fixed a problem where the character on the "Single Character" tab would
not properly center itself when the main window was resized.
- The Keyboard tab colors now reflect the colors set in the Options dialog.
- This version ships with the Component Checker off by default.
Printer's Apprentice 7.12 - 2/22/2000
- Quick fix to the install program - it was not creating the groups directory
properly.
- Bug fix - After changing the "Show Full Path" on the Options dialog, the
installed fonts list now immediatly refreshes to reflect the change.
Printer's Apprentice 7.12 - 2/16/2000
- As you can see, we are always trying to improve the software.
There are lots of issues addressed with this release.
- New Feature - Added links to our new web-based technical support request and
Frequently Asked Questions pages on the Web.
- New Feature - Added small ANSI numbers to the character set display
on the main window.
- New Feature - Added additional fields to the TrueType Information tab. It now
displays font author, company and description in addition to the
fields that were already there. Also, data no longer displays
random question marks.
- New Feature - Added a new Font Information sample sheet. This prints the
data embedded in a TTF file and displayed on the TrueType
Information tab.
- New Feature - New in Options dialog box - You can now select the color
used to draw text in the viewer window. You can also set
the background color.
- New Feature - The "Font Registry" dialog, has some new features -
If a Registry entry points to a file that no longer exists,
the software displays a small red symbol next to the name.
The Repair button lets you select a TrueType font file to
associate with a broken Registry link.
The Delete button removes the invalid Registry entry.
- New Feature - Added toolbar icons for the Font Registry tool and
Font Properties dialog.
- New Feature - Added sound effects when you click a column header to sort it.
- Enhancement - This version no longer requires the THREED.OCX file.
If you have it in your system folder and you know that no other apps
use it, you can delete it.
- Enhancement - Added better support for UNC naming conventions.
It is now possible to use a Microsoft-style share on a network
as the font groups folder. You could setup a share,
\\machine\fontgroups for example, and then set the font groups
folder to point to that share in the Options dialog. Make sure
this share has full read/write access for anyone who will be
connecting to it.
- Enhancement - Changed the wording on the splash screen. It originally read
"Reading xx fonts from your system." It now reads "Reading xx
font families from your system."
The original wording was causing confusion. When loading, PA is
actually reading the font families (i.e. Arial), not individual
fonts (i.e. Arial Bold).
- Bug Fix - PA would crash if "Arial" was not installed on the system. This
font was used for the small title bars in the app. This application
now uses a system API call to determine the font used for small
palette windows.
- Bug fix: If you used Shift-Click to select multiple installed
fonts and dragged them to a group, without releasing the shift
key, the main window would no longer draw the selected font.
This has been fixed. Thanks to TN for bringing this to our
attention.
- Bug Fix: On some systems with many, many drives, Printer's Apprentice
would not recognize the some of the drives. Thanks to Raymond_SF
for bringing this to our attention.
- Bug Fix: Added improved refresh code for the drives on the Uninstalled tab.
When a floppy/cd-rom/zip drive is changed, the list of folders for
the drive is now refreshed. Thanks to SB for pointing this out.
- Bug Fix - Enlarged the size of the Uninstall dialog box. The original
size was clipping off some lines of text.
- Bug Fix - Minor speed improvements in paint speed when resizing
the main window.
- Bug fix - it is now easier to "grab" and resize the window
containing the installed/uninstalled/both lists.
- Bug fix - if you had the debugging option enabled, then
edited the notes for a font group, Printer's Apprentice
would crash on exit. This has been fixed.
- Bug fix - if you tried to delete an empty font group that
had notes attached to it, the software would let you know
the folder was not empty, even though it looked like there
were no fonts in it. Under the hood, the notes are stored
in a notes.txt file. I added code to automatically delete
the notes file if it exists, then the font group folder will
be sucessfully deleted.
- Bug fix - sometimes FOT files would not get deleted when
uninstalling fonts. This has been fixed.
Printer's Apprentice 7.11 - 7/6/99
- Component Checker dialog now has links to online FAQ for help
with debugging OCX/DLL conflicts. OCX/DLL conflict report also
has improved step-by-step help for fixing problems.
- Fixed a bug in drag & drop code that produced GPFs. GPFs would
occur when dragging files to an empty directory or group.
- The ESC key now closes the Font Registry dialog box. The button
order on this dialog has also changed per standard Windows
conventions.
- New PAURL.INI file. This file contains a list of font related
and Windows shareware links. To access this list, start
Printer's Apprentice and select "Fonts on the Web" from the
Help menu.
Printer's Apprentice 7.10 - 6/1/99
- Recompiled with lastest Microsoft DLL/OCX files included in
Microsoft Visual Studio Service Pack 3.0. README.TXT file
was updated with new DLL/OCX version numbers.
- New PAURL.INI file. This file contains a list of font related
and Windows shareware links. To access this list, start
Printer's Apprentice and select "Fonts on the Web" from the
Help menu.
Printer's Apprentice 7.09 - 5/5/99
- ATM 4.0 FOR WINDOWS NT Support!
Printer's Apprentice now has preliminary support for Postscript Type 1
font installed with Adobe Type Manager 4.0 for Windows NT. This has
only been tested with the base fonts that ship with ATM. There may
be some Type 1 fonts under NT that Printer's Apprentice has a problem
with. If you run into problems, please let me know.
Note that Printer's Apprentice cannot read _uninstalled_ Type 1 fonts
on either NT or 95/98. Type 1 fonts must be installed with ATM to be
viewed or printed.
- Fixed a problem with PA sometimes not correctly uninstalling a font when
the "Delete Font File" option was selected.
- Fixed a problem with FOT files. If a TTF file is installed via a reference
to an FOT file in the Registry, PA was not always succesful in actually
uninstalling the font. Often the font file would be moved/copied, but the
font entry would remain in memory.
- When browsing uninstalled font folders, the arrow indicating sort order
now displays properly.
- New nifty feature!
1. Click the "Single Character" tab or "Character Set" tab.
2. Press keys on the keyboard.
3. The characters displayed will change as you press the keyboard.
Printer's Apprentice 7.08 - 3/31/99
- Fixed a problem with "Print All Fonts In Path..." and "Print Font Group
Catalog". These catalogs now sort properly by font name.
Printer's Apprentice 7.07 - 3/25/99
- Fixed problems with sample sheets not following the settings specified
on the Options dialog.
- PA no longer relies on the DWEASY32.OCX for certain functions. If you
are certain that no other applications use this file, you can
remove it from your windows\system folder.
- The setup program is now smart enough to recognize an existing,
registered version of the software. If you install PA7 into an
a directory with an existing registered version, you don't need
to re-enter your registration code.
Printer's Apprentice 7.06 - 2/28/99
- Fixed an that sometimes prevented fonts being moved correctly from
font group to other folders.
- The catalog and sample sheet settings on the Print dialog are now
saved when you close the dialog and restored when you open it.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Two Column catalog from printing
correctly. It would print one column on the first page and then
the second column on the second page. Not good.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the display from updating if you held
down the shift key while dragging fonts from one folder to another.
Printer's Apprentice 7.05 - 2/8/99
- Fixed an "Error #91 - Object or variable not set" bug that occured when
selecting multiple fonts while the Character Set view is displayed.
- Fixed some code that prevented certain installed fonts from being displayed.
- The ANSI Chart and Character Set printouts now obey the Details settings on
the Sample Sheets tab of the Options dialog.
- Added an option to suppress page numbers on the font catalogs.
- Fixed an "Error #380 Invalid Property Value" than occured if you tried to
print a catalog with only one font selected.
- Printer's Apprentice now works with the "Generic / Text Only" printer driver.
Previous versions resulted in a nasty "Error '35600' index out of bounds"
crash. Note that you cannot print TrueType or Adobe fonts with the
generic text driver.
- Fixed an "Error 9" that popped up if you clicked an installed font while
the "Reading X fonts from your system" dialog was open.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug on the "Fonts on the Web" dialog box. As you
moved the mousepointer over the URLs, the URL text would not display
correctly.
Printer's Apprentice 7.04 - 1/25/99
- New Feature * You can now double click on a font in the installed,
uninstalled or font group list and the program associated with TTF files
will be lauched. Normally this is the fontview.exe program that ships
with Windows. Thanks to AS for this suggestion.
- Fixed a GPF or "This item's control has been deleted" error that would
occur if you used the keyboard to traverse the directory in the
uninstalled list quickly.
- Fixed a typo in the "Bar Divided Catalog." One of the text strings was
coming out on the page as "012345656789" with the 5 and 6 repeated. Thanks
to LM for finding this.
- Fixed a GPF/"Object Variable Not Set" that occured when dragging installed fonts
to a directory. This typically happened when dragging to the root of a drive.
- Fixed a GPF/"Subscript Out of Bounds" error that could occur when dragging fonts
from the installed list to a group. This usually happened when dragging to a group
that is not the currently selected group.
Printer's Apprentice 7.03 - 1/14/99
- Fixed a "Path/File Access" error. This occured if you select an installed
font that physically resides in font group and dragged it back to the
same font group.
This bug also occured when an installed font that physically resides in a
folder and is dragged from the installed font list to that same folder.
This nasty little bug could hang the computer, GPF or display the "Path/File
Access" error dialog. Thanks to SF for pointing this one out.
- Fixed a bug that created many, many zero byte .TMP files in your
windows\temp directory. Thanks to SF on this one.
- Fixed a bug that caused some installed fonts to not be displayed.
- When dragging fonts from the installed list to a font group or
directory, the selection is no longer set back to the top of the
installed list. Thanks to SF for this usability idea.
- Fixed a bug where Marlette was always initially selected when the software loaded.
- Fixed a bug that caused a GPF or "Bad File Number" error with logging
enabled and trying to print all fonts in a particular path. Thanks
for GM for sending me the info on this one.
- Added an option to display the full path name for fonts in the
installed fonts list box on the main screen.
Printer's Apprentice 7.02 - 1/9/99
- Fixed the GPF/crash that occured when you opened the Tools|Registry
window and then closed the Registry dialog.
- Made the "Fonts on the Web" dialog sizable.
- Removed references to the printed Printer's Apprentice manual from
the About dialog. PA 7.0 does not ship with a manual.
- Corrected the copyright date in the splash screen.
Printer's Apprentice 7.01 - 1/6/99
- Fixed a resizing bug in the main PA form.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 - 1/4/99
- Fixed a bug that prevented Regular (non italic / non bold) fonts
from printing correctly.
- Fixed a bug that made drag and drop sometimes not start.
- Fixed a bug that caused fonts in groups not install or display properly
once installed.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 - 1/1/99
- Added a new "Fonts on the Web" dialog box that displays an extensive
list of font related resources on the Internet.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #14- 12/15/98
- Finally fixed overflow bug on startup with some systems.
- Updated all our documentation with information about our
new online order system. Check it out at the following URL:
https://www.regsoft.com/cgi-bin/reg_it_offsite.pl?8603
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #13- 12/10/98
- Perhaps we have the startup overflow bug fixed with this version.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #12- 12/09/98
- More logging. Trying to debug Overflow error on startup.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #11- 12/08/98
- More logging. Trying to debug Overflow error on startup.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #10- 12/07/98
- Removed some dead code in the project.
- Added even more logging features to the PA startup code.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #9- 12/07/98
- Added additional logging features to the PA startup code.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #8- 12/06/98
- Fixed the Three Up Catalog. It was not printing properly and
the new %UserName and %Date function were not working.
- The Six-Up catalog was not using the %UserName & %Date functions
correctly.
- Added additional logging features.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #7- 12/02/98
- Fixed several problems with the Two Catalog columns. In some
cases the sample text would not print. Also, the new %Date
and %UserName codes were not working.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #6- 12/01/98
- Added a "Yes To All" button to the File Replace confirmation dialog
that pops up if a file already exists in a target folder.
- Added "print codes" that can be used for headers and footers
on the print outs. Right now PA only supports two codes:
%Date - prints current date
%UserName - prints the user name (from the Options dialog)
- Added "Print" to several of the right-click, popup menus.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #5- 11/19/98
- Font catalogs can now be printed at 8 points. Great for lots of
fonts on one page. Terrible for reading...
- Added the ability to print all fonts in your font groups. This option
is located on the File menu. Note, not all catalogs are available for this
type of report.
- Added the ability to print all fonts in a path. This option is located
on the file menu. Note, not all catalogs are available for this
type of report.
- Fixed an 'Undefined Element' error message that popped up after
accessing the printer setup.
- This version was compiled with Visual Studio 6 and the recently
released Service Pack 1 from Microsoft. Due to this change, the list
of DLL/OCX files used by Printer's Apprentice has been updated. The
list can be found at the end of the readme.txt file.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #4- 10/21/98
- Fixed a problem with GradientTitle.OCX. Even though the software
no longer uses it, our component checking tool was still looking
for it. This resulted in a dialog box being displayed each time
the software was launched.
- Eliminated dependencies on the following files: dwvercls.dll.
- Updated ActiveX / DLL references in the readme.txt file.
- On the suggestion of a beta tester, David Raz, I added the volume
name to the list of drives in the uninstalled tab. In the interest of
load time, we only grab the volume name for hard drives.
- When reading a directory with a lot of uninstalled fonts, PA now actually
displays an hourglass mouse icon.
- Fixed a problem with copying from the uninstalled list to the group
list. If the source drive in the in the uninstalled list was a
read only device, the items were still removed from the list box.
- Added a progress dialog box (with flying paper animation!) when copying
or moving font files.
- Added the name of the currently selected printer to the Printer button
tooltip. This is a nice addition, requested by Bob Mateer.
- Added option for supressing the file path in catalog printouts.
- Fixed option for displaying or not displaying the font file type on
the catalog printouts.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #3- 10/05/98
- This version was compiled with Microsoft's Visual Studio 98. Let's
hope it cleans up some of the mystery GPF's, etc.
- Eliminated dependencies on the following files:
ccrpani.ocx
comctl32.ocx
gradienttitle.ocx
ctl3d32.dll
These files may be removed from your system folder if you are
sure that no other applications use them. (PA 6.54 does use
them).
- The point size sliders now have a little tag that indicates the
size over the mouse pointer as the slider is moved.
- Added a Registry tool. This allows you to examine, print and save
the font related entries from your Windows Registry. This new
feature is located on the Tools menu.
- Added an "Install..." option to the File|Font Groups sub menu. This
installs just the selected fonts in a font group.
- Fixed up an error is the list of OCX/DLL files shipped with the
software.
- Added a few tweaks that make the initial splash screen pop up
more quickly.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA #2- 7/27/98
- File|Exit, Close button - I think I fixed the GPF that happened on
some systems on shutdown of PA. Some of the software components were
not loading in the proper sequence, causing meltdown. The GPF's no longer
happens on my NT4 system, let me know if it still happens on yours.
- Drag&Drop Fonts To A Font Group - Created a new dialog box that is
displayed when completing a drag and drop operation from the
Installed Fonts list to a font group. The other dialog was confusing
and had some options that were not applicable for this function.
We also updated the What's This? help for this new dialog.
- Uninstall Dialog - Tab ordering has been fixed. "Next" is now
the default button so you can press Enter to move from step to
step.
- Install Font Group - Cleared up some of the message boxes that came up
if all the font in the group were already installed.
- Options Dialog - Fixed bug where catalog point size option was not
saved and restored properly.
- Added Select All entry on the Edit menu.
- Two Column Catalog I, II - Fixed a problem where the descriptions for
the second column printed over the descriptions for the fonts in
the first column.
- Two Column Catalog II - Adjusted the vertical spacing between fonts,
the information line and the next font. The spacing was really whacked.
- Form sizing - The main PA form now has a minimum window size and
cannot be sized smaller than this.
- Font Reading - Installed fonts with two letter font names were not
being picked up by PA. This has been fixed.
- Documentation - Various enhancements and corrections to the help file
and DLL/OCX version section of the readme.txt file.
Printer's Apprentice 7.0 BETA - 7/13/98
- First release of overhauled PA 7.0. Too many
new things to list. For a general list of new features,
see the help file.
Areas under contruction include help file and setup kit.
Any suggestions on the help file are appreciated.
Known bugs
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* GPF On Shutdown - Some NT 4.0 systems GPF when the X close button is
clicked. Workaround: Use File|Exit to quit.
* Can't Select By Dragging Mouse - In theory you should be able
to select multiple fonts in any list by dragging the mouse.
However, sometimes the file drag starts suddenly.
Workaround: Use the keyboard with the CTRL and SHIFT keys to
select multiple fonts.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 - 4/8/98
- Fixed a problem with the Keyboard chart and Catalog #2. With some
print drivers, some lines where printing very faint.
- Fixed a crooked line problem in Sample Sheet #1.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 - 3/16/98
- Fixed a problem with the printed ANSI chart that caused a horizontal
line to extend out from the lower left corner of the bounding box.
It was quite ugly. Thanks to DP for pointing this out.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 - 3/12/98
- Updated readme.txt file with list of OCX/DLL system files used by
PA. The version numbers on a few files on the list were out of date
and did not correspond with the files that we actually ship.
- Updated Order Form in Help File with proper telephone number to
call if you have a problem with your order.
- Fixed a problem that happened if a printer was not installed. PA
would crash. Now it displays a message box indicating that PA
requires a print driver to run.
- Fixed Options dialog box so Printer Reset text box would accept
double digit numbers.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 - 2/4/98
- Fixed an "Invalid property value" error message that occured
when selecting Keyboard from the Characters menu and an Adobe
font is selected in the main window. Thanks to D. Bannister
for alerting us to this.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 - 1/21/97
- Fixed a "Can't set printer orientation" bug when printing
multiple keyboard layouts.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Released - 11/24/97
- Added more Windows 95 like icons to the font lists.
- Added code to check for "File Not Found" error when an ATM font
is selected.
- This version has also been fully tested with Adobe Type Manager 4.0.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #7 - 11/11/97
- Fixed problem where the "Printer's Apprentice Component
Checker" would pop up complaining about MHKEYST32.OCX.
- Fixed "Run-time error 91" bug that occured when trying
to uninstall fonts.
- Significantly reduced EXE file size (we needed to do this
in order to fit the application on two diskettes).
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #6 - 11/8/97
- Eliminated need for the MHKEYST32.OCX. This file no longer
ships with Printer's Apprentice.
- Fixed transparancy problem that resulted in a white block
in the upper left hand corner of the Divided Bar Catalog.
- Added newer style buttons to keyboard window.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #5 - 11/4/97
- Thanks to Steve S. for his help with the beta. Many of
the items listed below were picked up by him.
- Our contact email addresses have changed. All references
in the software and documentation have been updated.
Our new contact addresses are as follows:
Sales and Information salesinfo@loseyourmind.com
Technical Support helpdesk@loseyourmind.com
- Somewhere along the way we broke some of the menu
items under the Characters menu. These have been
fixed and now work correctly when the Character Set
tab is selected.
- Many items on the Characters menu do not apply when
the Paragraph or Font Information tabs are selected.
We fixed the code so these menu items are disabled and
enabled where appropriate.
- Fixed a problem with the up/down arrow keys in the
main window. If you scrolled up and down in the
font list box, the arrow keys stopped working when
a non-TrueType font was encountered.
- Fixed many minor display bugs that pop up during
screen resizing.
- Fixed error "cannot open install.log" that occured
when running the uninstaller from the Start menu.
- More updates to the help file.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #4 - 11/1/97
- Our homepage URL changed. All references in the software and
documentation has been changed to http://www.loseyourmind.com
- Fixed error on start that said the STDOLE2.TLB file was not
registered.
- Fixed error "Control array element 4 eoes not exist." This
error ocured on startup after exiting the program with the
Font Information tab selected.
- Minor fixes to the help file.
- Fixed overflow error that occured if an uninstalled TTF file
with an invalid header was selected.
- Fixed "cannot open setup.log" error in setup program.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #3 - 10/28/97
- Fixed "35613 Imagelist must be initialized before it can be used" error
that some users encountered on startup. It was a programming error on
our end and took a while to debug.
- Changed setup program log file name to SETUP.LOG.
- Main window now has 3D "gripper" control on bottom right corner.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #2, - 10/22/97
- Added new font catalog, the "Divided Bar Catalog" (for
DB in Victoria, Australia)
- Added multi-column listview controls to the Print Uninstalled
fonts and Install Fonts dialog boxes.
- Made "Reading Fonts" operation more intelligent so it only
scans if you have added or removed fonts.
- More bug fixes
- Setup program recompiled with Wise Setup 5.0
- Setup program is more intelligent about version checking
- Added technology from Desaware, Inc. that lets Printer's
Apprentice check for old versions of needed runtime Active X
and DLL files. If an old OCX or DLL is found, it displays
a dialog box prompting the user to reinstall the software.
Printer's Apprentice 6.54 Beta #1, - 10/6/97
- Recompiled with Visual Basic 5.0 for increased performance
and compatability with Office 97 applications.
- General interface tweaks include use of sliders instead of
scroll bars on the main window, multicolumn "listview" controls
are used on many dialog boxes.
- Toolbar has been improved with the Office 97 style and larger,
256 color icons.
- The currently selected tab (on the main window) and font
is saved when you exit and restored when you restart the
software.
- Uninstall Wizard can uninstall fonts from multiple TrueType
families at once. This dialog now includes a font preview.
- Print dialog includes a font preview.
- Fixed "invalid subscript" error in Print Uninstalled Fonts
Wizard that could occur if you click the print button when
no fonts are selected.
- Replace TABCLT32.OCX tab control with control found in
COMCTL32.OCX. This means we don't have to ship TABCTL32.OCX
any more, a savings of 196k.
- Recoded and eliminated MHCBO32.OCX. A savings of 192k.
PRINTER'S APPRENTICE 6.53 - July 10, 1997
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- Fixed "Overflow" error that could occur during startup,
after PA had read the font list.
WHAT'S NEW IN PRINTER'S APPRENTICE 6.52
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Listed below are all fixes and enhancements made to
Printer's Apprentice since version 6.50.
- Fixed "Divide by Zero" error that occured when trying to install
just one TrueType font.
- Placed error checking code in effort to fix "Overflow" errors some
users encountered at startup.
- Placed error checking code in effort to fix "Subscript out of bounds"
errors some folks have encountered when installing fonts.
- Added a new specimen sheet. The 72 Point Character Set prints
a table of alphabet and numeric characters at 72 points.
- Added a new Select button to the Print/Install/Print from CD
dialogs. When you click the new Select button, a menu drops
down offering choices to select All, Regular, Bold, Italic,
BoldItalic and None. This is response to lots of user feedback.
Many users wanted a way to select all the Regular fonts at once.
- Fixed progress bar in the Install Fonts Wizard. As it looped
through the fonts to install, it would display 5%, 10%, 5%, 2%
and other erratic patterns.
- Added links on the menu to the Lose Your Mind Developement
home page.
- Fixed a discrepancy between printing installed and uninstalled
fonts. On the Installed version of any catalog, the "(TrueType)"
text next to a TT font was not being printed.
- Install Fonts and Print Fonts from CD-ROM Dialog Bug Fixes
- (Install only) - If a selected font file already exists in
your windows\fonts folder, you could get a "subscript out
range" error.
- If you selected a directory of TTF files and some
of those font files were currently installed, upon returning
to the main PA window, those fonts would not be displayed or
available in PA or other Windows apps. (In other words,
installed fonts were being inadvertantly uninstalled by PA)
- When reading a directory or changing a directory, the full
status message above the progress bar was not being displayed.
- Several users noted that it can take a few moments to
close this window and return to the main PA window. We have
tried to tweak this routine and added a "Cleaning up..."
message to the Install/Print window.
- Fixed a bug in the Filter drop down listbox. If you had the
directory filtered, then printed a catalog or sample sheets,
then click the << Previous buttons to go back and change
your filter, the filter would no longer work. Each time the
filter is changed, it resulted in a "No font files" list.
04/02/97 - Printer's Apprentice 6.5a
Final Version, v. 4/2/97 release date