Lose Your Mind Development - Printer's Apprentice Change Log

11/04/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.25
Released 11/4/2008

11/04/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0.25

Installer version 8.00.0033
Fixed a problem with saving the configuration file. Under some circumstances, it could become corrupt and this would lead to all sorts of problems.
When copying/moving a font to a font group, added code to make sure the font groups root folder is valid. A message box gets displayed if the folder is missing or invalid.

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10/27/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.24
Released 10/27/2008

10/23/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0.24

Installer version 8.00.0032
Fix for a "divide by zero" error.

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10/23/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.23
Released 10/23/2008

10/23/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0.23

Installer version 8.00.0031
Fixed a bug with the Edit>Copy Font List command. If there are no fonts selected in the currently selected tab, the application would crash.
Compare Fonts tab - fixed a problem that resulted in an IndexOutofBounds error.
Compare Fonts tab - as you navigate in a font list, the Compare Fonts tab now automatically scrolls so the selected font is at the top of the list.
Compare Fonts tab - added some code to reduce flicker.
Compare Fonts tab - fixed a bug that caused the Compare Fonts tab to not draw fonts correctly. This happened under a very specific set of mouse moves.
Removed a line of code that referred to the Arial font. This could cause a crash if Arial is not installed on the system.
Added additional error checking for TrueType fonts that have slightly invalid string tables. This would result in the font not being displayed in the Font Files tab.

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10/17/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.22
Released 10/17/2008 1:00:00 PM

10/17/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.00.0022

Installer version 8.00.0030
More information about this release can be found our our blog http://blog.loseyourmind.com
Support for different character sets. You can change the character set using the Options dialog. The current character set is displayed in the upper right hand corner of the title bar in the main display window.
The printed Character Sets now respect the current character sets. So if, for example, Cyrillic is selected in the Options dialog box, the printed Character sets will default to Cyrillic. You can also change the Character Set using the Options tab on the Print dialog box. The current set name is printed on the upper hand corner of the printed output.
The Multiple Character window has been reworked and is much faster in terms of redraw and resizing speed.
You can now display a grid of up to 20x20 characters in the Multiple Character window.
Font file name is now displayed in the title bar of the display window.
Fixed a "path is of illegal form" bug on startup. This would happen if the Fonts section of the registry contained an empty key.
We changed our ecommerce provider. Product purchase links in the application and help file have been changed from Regsoft to Avangate.

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09/25/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:30:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.21
Released 9/30/2008 6:30:00 AM

9/30/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.00.0021

Installer version 8.00.0027
Fixed a bug with an expiration date in the software.

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09/25/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.20
Released 9/25/2008

9/25/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.00.0020

Installer version 8.00.0026
Fixed a start up bug - If the Print Spooler service was not started, Printer's Apprentice would crash with an "The RPC server is unavailable" error message.
Fixed a bug that could cause italic fonts to not print correctly if thier internal "italic" flag was not set correctly.
Added a much-needed scroll bar to the Sample Text tab.
Added a "Don't show this message again" checkbox to the message box that appears when attempting to print both TrueType and Postscript based files.
Several menu items were missing status bar help.

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09/10/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.19
Released 9/10/2008

9/10/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.00.0019

Installer version 8.00.0025
19th public release
Fixed the Print command on the Font Groups context menu. It was not hooked up to trigger the Print dialog box.
Fixed a problem with the Help file. It was not initially showing the Index.
Fixed a drawing problem with the Sample Text tab. With some fonts (Brush Script MT) the left side of the text would be clipped off.

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09/06/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #18

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.18
Released 9/6/2008

9/06/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #18

Installer version 8.00.0024
18th public release
The prnapp.exe and setup.exe files are now digitally signed with our software publishing certificate. See http://blog.loseyourmind.com/?p=100 for more information.
Added new "Check for New Version" entry on the Help menu.
When the Font Compare tab is selected, Select All and Select None operations are much faster. I eliminated much of the flicker and scrolling that occurred.
Added operating system & service pack info to error handling dialog box & report.
Added "Need Fonts" entry to the Help menu. This links to a list of font resources on our web site.
Added the font embedding status to the Font Information tab and Font Information sample sheet.
Added additional code that fixes the "object not set" error in the cShItem segment of the tree view control. I was never able to replicate the error, so let me know if you run into this again.
Added error handling code for "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection." error in the Font Compare tab.
Fixed an inconsistency on the Font Files & Font Groups right-click context menu. "Deselect" is now labeled "Deselect All."

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8/14/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #17

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.17
Released 8/14/2008

8/14/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #17

Installer version 8.00.0023
17th public release
Added the ampersand (&) character to the Characters > Symbols menu
Fixed a problem with the color selectors at the bottom of the screen. The default colors were set to use Window system colors for text and background rather than Black & White.
Select > Deselect menu relabeled as Select > Deselect All
Fixed a problem with ampersand characters not displaying correctly in the Sample Text tab.
Fixed a problem with disappearing text in the Sample Paragraphs tab of the Options dialog box.

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7/28/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #16

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.16
Released 7/28/2008

7/28/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #16

Installer version 8.00.0022
16th public release
Additional work in the treeview control to eliminate the "This window has already been registered as a drop target" error.

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7/27/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #15

helpdesk@loseyourmind.com — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Changes in Printer's Apprentice 8.0.15
Released 7/27/2008

7/27/08 - Printer's Apprentice 8.0 Beta #15

Installer version 8.00.0021
15th public release
Fixed a bug in the font reading routines that caused the software to ignore symbol and dingbat fonts.
Fixed a bug that caused Printer's Apprentice to crash on startup if Verdana was not installed.
Fixed an "object reference not set" error when using the Font Files tab on Vista 64 systems.
Added initial support for A4 paper size to the catalogs. (We still need to tweak the sample sheets for A4.)

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