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2010-03-23 14:32:19 CT | #1 |
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Don C Ferguson From: Canada Registered: 2006-03-01 Posts: 729 |
Greetings Deron et al, Just as I finished a long and tiring Email to Deron---he will probably agree with this opinion when he gets that Email ---I got the message about the 'new' guy 5.0.5.6. What timing! Here's what happened: (1) Download was fine but when Unarc swung into action the complaint; WorkageStream5056/Help/PGUser/Screenshots/ParagrapFormat.KeepTogether.lines.mui.png appeared. «WorkageStream5056» had just been created and was empty, so the message above is in error. I chose the option "Skip" and Unarc continued and completed the unpacking and declared no errors. (2) Registration (3) Copying PageStream5.prefs (4) Opening from the executable icon DEBUG to the «PageStream5.prefs» file but the only 'appdebug' files I could produce contained 0 bytes. So I gave up and moved to (5) Open from a shell File -> System Preferences -> Fonts the GR immediately appeared. The GR claimed DSI problems; the option «Ignore DSI errors» returned me to PageStream, but it was essentially dead, although the mouse remained active and OS4.0 did not fail, but slowed to less than a walk. Eventually, I did the Sashimi thing as follows: Open a shell and gave: then opend another shell and gave 2> cd WorkageStream5056/ When PageStream opened I tried to do the «File -> System Preferences -> Fonts» thing again, got the GR to appear, so returned to the shell and did:
and then found that sashimi.out consisted of 345 rows and 17,000+ bytes. So I've attached the sashimi.out file with this message. It will be stripped on the way to PageStreamAmigaBeta but Deron should receive it at <support@pagestream.org>. Thanks to whoever gave the details about using Sashimi. Great work Deron! Hope the sashimi.out sheds some light. Tomorrow, actually today but later, I'll try some other things, but if I cannot load in any font families ....... Hmmmmm! My MAIL.OUT server has been down for several hours, so I'll be sending this off in a moment.
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2010-03-23 11:49:34 CT | #2 |
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Bart Mathias From: United States Registered: 2007-01-13 Posts: 320 |
My experience was similar to Don's: On 03/23/2010, Ferguson, Don wrote: > [...] One difference. No problems unarc'ing. > (2) Registration Another difference. I "follow orders" better than Don and used the shell. > (3) Copying PageStream5.prefs I did this for my second or third launch, and added my old PageStream5 > [...] I used DEBUGFILE instead of DEGUBFILE, and regularly get AppDebug.txt. I > So I ...moved to Don may be ahead of me here. I clicked "A" for text before I would try to
I haven't tried Sashimi again yet, but I have some DebugBufferDump.txts. I Task 0x6B261370 (Background CLI) bad access @ 0x1C91D1C0, pc = 0x014508A4, > [...] |
2010-03-24 02:03:50 CT | #3 |
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Don C Ferguson From: Canada Registered: 2006-03-01 Posts: 729 |
Greetings "Bart Mathias" <mathias@hawaii.edu>
<<snip>> Good.
BM> Another difference. I "follow orders" better than Don and used the shell. OOoooohhhHH! Some guys really like to rub it in!
BM> I did this for my second or third launch, and added my old PageStream5 On Tips! You're right. Had not even noticed that.
BM> I used DEBUGFILE instead of DEGUBFILE, and regularly get AppDebug.txt. I What a low DEGUB BLOW! Once again, the Bart One leaves me behind. Must be all that running that he still does. I tried again tonight, but I could not get 5056 to open from the executable. Hah! Confirming that the three example docs in the /Documents directory---5.0Flyer.pgs and the other two---loaded and displayed the graphic components properly. Did not fool with font substitution, just accepted whatever PageStream came out with---no fonts installed. No fonts, so no text. I'll see if I can move from page to page in the 'Examples' guy. Hah! Was able to walk through the five pages in the Examples doc without a GR visit or freeze. Also, change the magnification works. Let's see if we can load some font families! Managed to get two font families installed and SAVEd (I think) before 5056 refused to function further. We'll see what happens after a reboot. Damn! Got careless and lost brilliant reportage due to a hard freeze from 5056. By 'hard' I mean the OS froze and a cold reboot was required. Anyway... Loading old PageStream files However, the kiss of death arrived when I tried to access the text cursor which consistently (well .... often then!) brings a hard freeze. By 'hard' I mean the OS locks up, and a COLD reboot necessary. That's not good. In 5055 I could use the text cursor, though with trepidation.
Oh Joy!
Well, that's useful to know that the files will open without the text, and, as noted above it is possible, though dicey, to load in font families.
SCRIPTPALETTE HIDE AT -2 -2 SIZE -1 -1 COLLAPSED OFF in PageStream5.pregs by removing «HIDE AT -2 -2» since in 5055 the script palette was a miserable, unexpandable (horizontally» gadget. The deletion brought out the script palette alright, after a GR visit, but then I noted that it could be expanded horizontally. That's a splendid improvement, as the usual options become visible. In 5055 I could not access APPEND, LOAD and so forth. I was able to open the Style, Document and Pages palette as well, and my styles appeared on loading an old document. Was able to load in my scripts as well, but as soon as I reached to the text cursor, PageStream died, though allowed the OS to continue this time. Well .... that's enough for today. How's the text cursor behaving elsewhere?
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