Apologies for the length.
I have been using FusionPro 4 since its release and have just upgraded
to version 5. There are several things that have been buggy since the
4 release (or earlier) and I was hoping for them to be resolved in the
new version 5 release. Alas, they are not. I know there is a planned
February Mac release and maybe some of these things could be looked at
in the meantime.
I am using FusionPro 5.0P1c
Acrobat 7.0.9
Intel MacBookPro
Leopard 10.5.1 (I realize this is not supported, but all of the
following except numbers 07 and 08 were issues before I switched from
Tiger).
01. When preview is turned on, doing ANYTHING causes the
ProdActivate.app to open and close. Want to nudge a box 5 times to the
right? You have to wait for that app to open and close inbetween each
nudge. Tab between two fields? Wait again.
02. When creating a new blank text rule, the 'Rule Editor - Text'
window is opened and the focus goes to the 'Rule Name' field to enter
a name, however once the Building Blocks drawer slides out, focus is
lost (nothing has focus), requiring clicking in the field again to do
anything.
03. When editing a rule, if you highlight text and begin typing it
replaces the highlighted text (correct), however if you highlight text
and then type using the number pad, the new text is appended to the
right of the highlighted text (incorrect).
04. When typing values in the Text Edit dialog box, tabbing to the
next field almost never highlights that field for immediate input (it
does sometimes). Instead you have to manually highlight the old value
and type over it or shift-tab back a field and then tab into the field
a second time (this usually works, but not always).
05. When entering a rotation angle in the Text Edit dialog box you
have to tab twice to leave the field.
06. When opening a pdf, I view the window maximized by default. If I
then start the FusionPro wizard or select a FusionPro object from an
already started pdf, the window resizes itself with the bottom off the
screen. Clicking the maximize button resizes it back to the correct
size.
The following are bugs I have noticed since switching to Leopard (I
realize this is not officially supported) Both of these problems were
in version 4 and persist in version 5.
07. When creating a new FPImposer file everything seems to work fine
except the Step and Repeat options. If you try to change the first
drop menu to anything other than 'None' it does not stick. None of the
other drop menus can be set without the first one being set to
something other than 'None'.
08. When editing a rule the auto-complete popup causes type input to
stop working. For example, if I type 'Cur' I get the popup that lets
me select CurrentRecordNumber, however once that popup occurs I can no
longer type. I have to close the window and reopen it to type again.
And finally, my wishlist for new features.
09. Better font notification for missing fonts. If I use a font, then
later open that document without that font loaded there is no
notification. If I compose the document I get a message at that point
(unlesss I have done any editting in the text box, then the default
font becomes permanent). But if I collect the document for upload to
FusionPro Server, there is never a notification. Also, the font
defaults to Helvetica, but there is no indication as to what it is
SUPPOSED to be. It would be nice if you could highlight the text and
the font menu would read 'Helvetica (Futura Bold)' where Futura Bold
is the font not loaded.
10. Auto rule generation from the Variable Text Editor window. For
example, I type a paragraph of text that includes the FIRSTNAME
variable in the text area. The customer wants the variable in title
case. It would be nice if I could highlight that variable (or any text
for that matter) and right-click to get a popup list of basic string
functions to apply. I would select ToTitleCase(str) and a rule would
be automatically created and the variable swapped out for the rule in
the Variable Text Editor window. This would be handy for the case
functions, as well as the trim function.
With input it could also be used for almost all of the string
functions, similar to how the rules wizard works. For example I
highlight some text, right-click and select Right(str, count). The
string is already defined by what I have highlighted, a popup window
prompts me for a count and the rule is generated.
Hopefully I have explained all of the examples clearly, if not please
let me know and I can detail them further. Or if there is a workaround
for any of these issues I would love to hear it. Thanks.
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Lance Wente
Woolverton Printing
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
319.277.2616
800.670.7713
www.woolverton.com
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