On Sep 28, 2007, at 4:12 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I am wondering whether it will be worth for me investing into the
2k8 update. I am on 2k7.
I certainly have no use for the audio functions, nor more Garritan
instruments.
I may have use for Document styles, and the new selection, cut/copy/
paste etc improvements may well be useful.
But how usable is 2k8? Are the improvements worth the money?
On July 6 I made a large post enumerating the bugs I had found so
far. There were not many fixes from 2007 that I noticed, and a few
added.
The big problems I have that are new with 2008 mostly include file
corruption, which seems to hit way more frequently than before. Maybe
I just have bad luck, but when I use a pre-2008 document for a
Document Style, the resulting file almost always has some sort of
corruption. The type of corruption seems to vary, but I often end up
having to copy the contents to a fresh document to continue working.
The enharmonic-flip bug in Speedy is still there, and this is a
monster for my work. Most of the other bugs are just annoyances,
albeit hair-pulling annoyances at times, like lyric hyphens and
Postscript not accepting custom arrowheads. But these are not new to
2008.
I have reverted to 2007 for most of my work, and 2006 in some cases
(no enharmonic bug in 2006!)
Bottom line, 2008 is not worth it. Give it a pass.
Christopher
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