Printer's Apprentice 8.0 - Font management software for Windows XP & Vista Version History Copyright © 2006-2008 by Bryan T. Kinkel and Lose Your Mind Development ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Latest version can always be found on http://www.loseyourmind.com Direct download: http://www.loseyourmind.com/zipfiles/prnapp80.zip Purchase Printer's Apprentice via secure web page: http://www.regsoft.net/purchase.php3?productid=80728 Purchase Printer's Apprentice via phone: http://www.regsoft.net/purchase.php3?productid=80728&ordertypeid=6 Printer's Apprentice FAQ http://www.loseyourmind.com/pa80faq.asp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6/27/08 8.0 - Beta #8 - Installer version 8.00.0014 - Eighth public release - Added Search function to the Help file. - Added new "How To Copy Characters Into Applications" section into Help file. - Added ability to change printed footers from the Options screen. - Fixed some cosmetics on the Options screen. - Fixed "The path is not of a legal form" error when using File|Print All Fonts in Folder. - Fixed "Splitter Distance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width - Panel2MinSize" error. This happened if you shrunk the main window to a very small size, exited and restarted the application. - Fixed "Generic GDI+ errors" in the print engine. In some cases, if the Windows GDI does not like a font, it was crashing the print routines. - Fixed a problem with Edit>Copy Character on the mutliple character tab. It was copying the wrong character to the clipboard. - Added "Family" column to the font lists. This can be turned on and off using the View menu. - Fixed a problem with the Font Files folder tree - when clicking the nodes it sometimes caused an "object not set" error under Vista. - Fixed a problem with the Delete key triggering the Delete Fonts/Uninstall fonts functions at inappropriate times. 6/16/08 8.0 - Beta #7 - Installer version 8.00.0013 - Seventh public release - Added new "3 Up Catalog" - Several minor bug fixes. - Fixed problem with flickering text on the the Sample Text tab under Vista - Additional fixes for "unknown" fonts under Vista 5/16/08 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0012 - Sixth public release - Help file has been expanded lots of new content. Please refer to the help file for step-by-step "How To" information and details about font groups, etc. - Many minor bug fixes - Now supports font file management - you can move font files around the file system. - Functions for copying / moving fonts can be found on the Edit menu, the toolbar and on right click popup menus - Now supports font groups - Functions for copying / moving fonts to and from groups can be found on the Edit menu, the toolbar and on right click popup menus - Default font group folder is c:\documents and settings\user\\Application Data\Printer's Apprentice\Font Groups - Font group folder can be changed through the Options dialog box - Added "Explore Font Group folder" to Tools menu - Application now uses Vista styled "Task Dialogs" rather than old Win32 MessageBox functions for conveying alerts to the user. - Edit|Copy will copy a single character or sample text to the clipboard in both text and HTML format. - Edit|Copy with the keyboard tab selected will copy an image of the keyboard layout to the clipboard. - Edit|Copy Font List will copy a text list to the Clipboard. A dialog box prompts you for which columns to include, etc. - File|Save Font list also uses the same options dialog box as Edit|Copy Font List 4/2/08 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0011 - Fifth public release - Fixed expiration date problem 2/5/08 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0010 - Fourth public release - Fixed a problem where PA would not load on systems where the OS date formatting was set as DD/MM/YYYY. - Fixed a problem where PA would only read in only the first 500 installed fonts. - This version has entries for Copy and Move on the Font Files context menu. But theses features don't work yet and lead to an "Under Construction" dialog box. 1/30/08b - 8.0 Technology Demonstration (refresh) - Installer version 8.00.0009 - Third public release - Fixed a bug on the font files tab where fonts in sub folders were not being read. 1/30/08 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0008 - Third public release - "Select None" on menus has been relabeled "Deselect" with a Ctrl-D hotkey. - Hotkeys are now labled on context menus. - Additional feedback on splash screen as main form is loaded. - Fixed a bug with installing then printing fonts. Newly installed fonts would not print correct. Thanks to MicheleN for pointing this out. - Added code to automatically scroll and select the most recently added font in the Compare Fonts tab. Thanks to MicheleN for the suggestion. - The folder tree on the Font Files tab now has a context menu that appears when you right click. The menu has the following items: Refresh, New Folder, Rename Folder, Delete Folder, Open Folder and Properties All of the menu items should work. 1/16/08 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0007 - Second public release - Several new printouts are included in this release Character Set 1 Character Set 2 Keyboard Layout Keyboard Catalog Catalog 2 The previous beta included entries for the Keyboard Catalog and Catalog 2. However, the associated page definition files were not included in the setup.exe package and not installed. If you selected either of those two catalogs, it resulted in an error. This has been fixed for this release. - Fixed a problem with font management - under certain cirumstances, the app would hang after the font was installed/uninstalled. If other running applications do not react to the SendMessage(WM_FONTCHANGE) message, then PA would hang. I changed the call to use a timeout. This improves the install/uninstall speed as well. - Fixed a problem with TrueType/OpenType outline detection code. In some circumstances, an OpenType .otf file would be incorrectly seen as a TrueType icon. The wrong icon would display in the font lists. - Fixed a problem with the Compare Font tab. Doing the following steps would result in this error: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: InvalidArgument=Value of '-1' is not valid for 'index'. 1. Click the Font Files tab and navigate to a folder with several fonts. 2. Click the Font Compare tab. 3. Select several fonts using the check boxes. Select one of the fonts so it is highlighted in the Font Compare tab. 4. Click the Refresh button in the toolbar. - The logging feature is now enabled for the Font Install & Uninstall dialog boxes. - Printer's Apprentice logs are now stored in the following folder: %userprofile%\Application Data\Printer's Apprentice\log - You can quickly jump to the log folder by selecting "Printer's Apprentice Logs" on the Tools menu. - Fixed various minor bugs in the font install/uninstall engine. - Fixed the text and typos in a few message boxes. - Fixed a problem with the Print dialog. If you use the Windows Classic visual style under Windows XP, then the dialog box would crash with a "no visual styles defined" error message. - Pressing F1 while in the Options dialog will open the appropriate Help system page. - Some menu items on the Help menu now lead the proper web page instead of a "Page not found" error. "Help>License and Pricing Information" menu item now leads to a temporary placeholder page on our web site. "Help>Online Order Form" now leads to our order form at Regsoft.com. "Help>Online Order Form - PayPal" now leads to our PayPal order form. 12/11/07 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0006 - First public release 12/05/07 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0005 - Includes updated help file 11/13/07 - 8.0 Technology Demonstration - Installer version 8.00.0004 - Initial internal release - * Implemented * Main user interface, menu and options dialogs Font install and uninstall routines and dialogs Print engine and XML based catalogs & sample sheets Several font sample sheets and catalogs (not all the catalogs and sheets from previous versions are implemented yet) * Not Implemented * Font groups Font file management (move & copy font files) Print outs such as ANSI charts and a few catalog styles Font Registry editor Help file contains nothing but topic stubs