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Printer's Apprentice Version History
Current version can always be found on
http://www.igi.net/~btkinkel
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PRINTER'S APPRENTICE 6.53 - October 20, 1997
- Fixed some problems in the setup program. In some cases,
ActiveX and DLL components were not being updated
correctly.
PRINTER'S APPRENTICE 6.53 - July 10, 1997
-----------------------------------------
- Fixed "Overflow" error that could occur during startup,
after PA had read the font list.
WHAT'S NEW IN PRINTER'S APPRENTICE 6.52
---------------------------------------
Listed below are all fixes and enhancements made to
Printer's Apprentice since version 6.50.
- Fixed "Divide by Zero" error that occured when trying to install
just one TrueType font.
- Placed error checking code in effort to fix "Overflow" errors some
users encountered at startup.
- Placed error checking code in effort to fix "Subscript out of bounds"
errors some folks have encountered when installing fonts.
- Added a new specimen sheet. The 72 Point Character Set prints
a table of alphabet and numeric characters at 72 points.
- Added a new Select button to the Print/Install/Print from CD
dialogs. When you click the new Select button, a menu drops
down offering choices to select All, Regular, Bold, Italic,
BoldItalic and None. This is response to lots of user feedback.
Many users wanted a way to select all the Regular fonts at once.
- Fixed progress bar in the Install Fonts Wizard. As it looped
through the fonts to install, it would display 5%, 10%, 5%, 2%
and other erratic patterns.
- Added links on the menu to the Lose Your Mind Developement
home page.
- Fixed a discrepancy between printing installed and uninstalled
fonts. On the Installed version of any catalog, the "(TrueType)"
text next to a TT font was not being printed.
- Install Fonts and Print Fonts from CD-ROM Dialog Bug Fixes
- (Install only) - If a selected font file already exists in
your windows\fonts folder, you could get a "subscript out
range" error.
- If you selected a directory of TTF files and some
of those font files were currently installed, upon returning
to the main PA window, those fonts would not be displayed or
available in PA or other Windows apps. (In other words,
installed fonts were being inadvertantly uninstalled by PA)
- When reading a directory or changing a directory, the full
status message above the progress bar was not being displayed.
- Several users noted that it can take a few moments to
close this window and return to the main PA window. We have
tried to tweak this routine and added a "Cleaning up..."
message to the Install/Print window.
- Fixed a bug in the Filter drop down listbox. If you had the
directory filtered, then printed a catalog or sample sheets,
then click the << Previous buttons to go back and change
your filter, the filter would no longer work. Each time the
filter is changed, it resulted in a "No font files" list.
04/02/97 - Printer's Apprentice 6.5a
Final Version, v. 4/2/97 release date
03/26/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #15
Release Candidate #2
- Fixed MAJOR bugs in the Install Font Routines
1) The list of the changes to the Registry was incorrect
2) Selected fonts were not being installed correctly.
- Fixed bug that would not let you print on letter sized paper
with a LaserWriter IIg printer.
03/22/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #14
- Fixed Filter combo box on CD-ROM Font Wizard dialog so
it filters on font name, instead of file name.
- Fixed bug in Print dialog box. If you selected all the
sample sheets, you got an error message asking you to
select a sample sheet.
- Fixed Print Dialog and CD-ROM Font Wizard dialog so they
both say "Ready to print!" when a batch job is finished.
- Fonts are now sorted by font name in lists in Print and
CD-ROM Font Wizard dialog boxes.
- Fixed "Overflow" error that occured after launching
Adobe Type Manager and the Control Panel from PA on
some computer systems.
- In the CD-ROM Font Wizard, if you selected to print a
Character Set sheet you got an ANSI Sheet, and vice versa.
This has been fixed.
- Many typos fixed in help file.
- A4 Support - Fixed Catalog 1 so footer line does not overwrite
sample text
- A4 Support - Tested all font catalogs and sample sheets with A4
paper. You can still tell the formatting is for 8 1/2 by 11
paper, but the information gets printed with no formatting
problems. Future versions of Printer's Apprentice will fix the
layout so the text is actually centered on the page, regardless
of papers size.
03/15/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #13
- Added a progress dialog box when you select File|Print.
Behind the scenes, PA must evaluate every single font on
the system, so this process can take a few seconds. The
dialog box helps gaurd against "freeze up fear." (Special
request from A.B. C)
- Fixed a bug in the Uninstall dialog box. Moving or copying
a font file to a:\ did not work correctly. No error was
displayed, the font would just not get copied there.
(Thanks to GB)
- Fixed Character Set tab on main window so it updates
when menu items are selected from the Character menu.
- Updated preview graphic of Character Set printout in
print dialog boxes.
- Added the capability to specify the location of the Adobe
Type Manager executable. This can be found in the Options
dialog box, General tab. The file/path specified here is
used when you click the red A icon on the main Printer's
Apprentice screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused Sample Sheets to print even if you
selected a Font Catalog to print. (thanks to JS)
- Fixed reference to our other product, FontReview, listed in
the Registration tab of the About dialog (thanks to SK)
- Fixed bug in font read code that could cause some Adobe Type 1
fonts to not show up in the main PA font list (thanks to SK)
- Fixed a bug that caused the currently selected font on the
main PA screen to change while the Print dialog is open.
03/09/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #12
- Fixed Error #458 (OLE error) that popped up after printing
some font catalogs.
- Fixed Keyboard Sample sheet so it takes on the attributes
(bold, italic, etc) that were selected by the user, full
font name ("Courier Bold") prints instead of just font name
("Courier"), added file name and size
- Fixed a bug in Two Column Catalog II that caused "TrueType"
to print twice below the font.
- Fixed lots of bugs that could cause a font to print in a
default printer font instead of what the user selected
- Fixed bug that caused the Font Catalog title to not be
saved correctly to the INI file.
03/04/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #11
- Previous beta was mislabelled as Beta #9 in splash screen.
- Fixed Error# 458 when printing Catalogs I, II Two Column I
and Three Column
03/03/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #10
- NEW FEATURE - Sorting! When printing fonts, you can now
sort by Font Name or Font File Name. The sorting options
are available from the Options dialog box.
- NEW FEATURE - You can now change the size of the information
text below the printed font on Catalog I, II and the two column
catalogs. To change the size, select Options from the Tools menu,
click the Catalogs tab. The new setting is on this tab.
- NEW FONT CATALOG - I have added a new and improved Two Column
Catalog. The old one is now called Two Column II. This new one
is Two Column I.
- NEW FONT CATALOG - Added a Three Column Catalog. At the smallest
point size settings, you can get 75 fonts on a single page.
- Fixed Specimen Sheet IV preview graphic so it looks a bit more
like the printed page.
- Added Filter label to CD-ROM Font Wizard and Install dialog boxes.
- Added new icon to the "reading fonts" dialog that shows up
after installing new fonts.
- Fixed bug in printing routines that caused some BoldItalic fonts
to only print as bold.
- Fixed new bugs in Print Wizard and CD-ROM Font Wizard that led to
"Error #5 Illegal Function Call" errors when using the next/previous
buttons.
- Fixed Runtime Error #5 that happened on CD ROM Font Wizard.
02/16/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #9
- DeskJet fixes: We got a loaner HP DeskJet 660Cse printer and
fixed many incompatabilities between DeskJets and Printer's
Apprentice.
- Uninstalled fonts can now be printed.
- Catalog I: Fixed code so bottom rule line does not
overwrite the footers and page numbers
- Sample Sheet IV: Fixed code so box around page lines
up correctly on along bottom. It now no longer prints
the "dangling" vertical lines below the bottom horizontal
line.
- Three Up Catalog: Fixed problem with Title text printing
on one page and the rest of the page on a second page.
- Updated readme.txt with a list of support OCX/DLL files used
by Printer's Apprentice.
- Fixed code so "Oblique" fonts are correctly printed on both
catalogs and sample sheets (Thanks to BS for the help)
- Fixed tab index problems on Print and Options dialog. The tab
key will now move from field to field in correct order.
- When you select File|Print, whichever font is currently
selected in the main window will be highlighted and
selected in the File|Print dialog box. (Previously,
the font would be selected, but perhaps not visible in the
list box, you would have to scroll to see it.)
- ATM 3.0/4/0: Fixed code in File|Print dialog that caused
italic/bold/bolditalic/etc variations of an Adobe font to
print as Regular repeatedly in catalogs. For example, four
variations of Adobe Caslon were selected, but Adobe Caslon
Regular would print 4 times. (Thanks to SK)
- Added "Whats This" help to the Install and Print Uninstalled
fonts dialog boxes.
- Fixed bugs in printing code. "Nag" message was not printing
on page footers when running unregistered version.
- Fixed code on CD-ROM Font Wizard / Install Wizard so code that
detects installed fonts is a bit smarter. For example, it had a
tough time picking up "Lucida Console" as an installed font. (JN)
- Fixed Pick Directory dialog so it did not show up as a task
in the Windows 95 task bar.
- The dialog that lets you print uninstall fonts is now called
the "CD-ROM Font Wizard"
- Fixed a bug that caused the Print Wizard and CD-ROM Font Wizard
to print 2 lines of a catalog even when you only selected one
font to print.
- Fixed a bug in the Install Wizard. After installing fonts,
the "flying windows" symbol, indicating a font is installed,
was being displayed next to the wrong font in the font list.
(Thanks to MH)
- Fixed keyboard window so it properly displays the correct font
when initially loaded. (Thanks to PM for pointing this out).
Also fixed a variety of minor problems in the keyboard window.
- Fixed a bug that caused the single character tab view not
to show the current font if you changed the font while in
the character set tab.
- Fixed a bug in the Remove Font Wizard that caused an
additional entry to appear in the task bar.
- Fixed obscure bug that caused a "File Already Open" error
when loading the Options dialog from the Print dialog
- Fixed code that did not remove "Unregistered" nag message on
bottom of main window when a correct registration code was
entered.
01/23/97 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #8
- Added Lose Your Mind Development web URL to the Printer's
Apprentice group on the Start menu.
- Fixed some more sections of code that can cause a descrepancy
between the point size of the single character sample, the
size scroll bar and the size list box.
- Added "Uninstall Printer's Apprentice" to Start menu. Previously,
the uninstaller was only available from the Add/Remove Programs
Control Panel, which is a bit obscure.
- Fixed top row of keys on Keyboard window to display properly
when the form is first displayed. This bug popped up due to
changes I made to the keyboard in Beta #7.
- Fixed bug in About box that would cause PA not to change to
the Registered version after entering a valid Registration code
and closing the About box.
- Small improvments in screen redraw speed and in reducing
flickering problems.
- Improved speed of deselecting fonts with the Deselect All
button in the File Print dialog.
- Added a Frequently Asked Questions section to the Help file.
- Added a jump to the Help menu that links to the FAQ section
in the Help file.
12/29/96 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #7
- Added contect sensitive, pop up help for individual controls
on many of the dialog boxes. This feature places a small
question mark button on the right side of dialog box caption
bars. Click the button and your cursor will change to a
question mark arrow (it may be different if you have
customized cursors). Then click a control on the dialog box
to see pop up help.
Please take the time to read the pop up help.
Let me know if the help text is not clear, is misspelled, etc.
Pop up help is not implemented in the 'Intall' and 'Print
uninstalled fonts' dialogs.
- File Print Setup has been fixed. Changes you make will actually
take. For instance, if you use the dialog box to turn on
duplex printing, Printer's Apprentice should now use it.
Thanks to BC for pointing this out to me.
- Removed the Office 95 style title bar. The code did not always
produce the desired results. This eliminates the need for the
dwsbc32.ocx file in the Printer's Apprentice setup.exe.
- Fixed setup program so INSTALL.LOG is wiped clean for each
installation.
- Fixed several inconsistencies between the page preview screens
(in File Print and Print from CD-ROM menus). They are briefly
noted below
a) Sample Sheet II - preview right justified title text,
printed page was centered.
b) Sample Sheet IV - preview did not show the title text
that appears on printed page.
c) ANSI Sheet I - preview showed title as "ANSI Character
Set <font name>" while printed page had a different
title.
Most of the inconsistencies were due to the fact that the
preview bitmaps are from older versions. I have replaced or
updated the preview bitmaps as needed. Thanks to BC for his
sharp eye and pointing these issues out.
- Bug fixes on Sample Sheet II - Font file name was printing twice
and did not contain the full path name. The full path name is
printed other sample sheets, so this was a consistency problem.
- Bug fixes on Basic Catalog I - Line spacing was not adjusting
properly, text was overlapping the headers after page 1, in some
cases the bottom font sample lines would overwrite the footer
line. These have been fixed. Thanks to MF for pointing these
out.
- Bug fix on Basic Catalog II - Line spacing was not adjusting
properly, causing sample text to overlap the line above it.
- Bug fixs on Two Column Catalog - The code for this catalog
was ignoring the "Reset Printer every x Pages" setting from the
Options dialog box. This option breaks up a print job into a new
print job every x pages. The two column catalog was also not
printing selected Quotes correctly. If you selected Quote #2 to
print, the two column catalog would print it as "Quote2".
Thanks to TN for his list of suggestions for the two column
inventory.
- When the keyboard window is opened, focus is automatically
placed in the textbox above the keyboard.
12/10/96 - Printer's Apprentice Beta #6.01
*This beta was sent directly to a few testers and not publicly
*posted on the Web site.
- Print dialogs - "Print" buttons are now disabled while a print
job is currently processing.
- Main PA window - fixed synchonization problems between the point
size scroll bars, point size drop down listbox and the various
tabs. Sometimes the scroll bar would give one point size and the
drop down listbox would say another point size.
- Printer's Apprentice now supports installed TrueType fonts that
physically reside in other directories. This led to a variety of
small bugs. For example, the TrueType file would be listed on the
main screen as "c:\windows\fonts\f:\fonts\truetype\times.ttf"
- Printer's Apprentice now supports FOT files. This lead to
1) the FOT file being listed on the main PA screen instead of the
TTF file 2) The FOT or the TTF was listed in printouts of installed
fonts 3) On printouts of installed fonts, the font file size would
be reported as 1K.
- Hopefully I have gotten rid of "pnlFOT" being printed on the main
PA screen instead of the TrueType file size.
- Epson Action Laser 1000 - This particular driver has some
interesting quirks that led to "Run time error 381" messages.
These errors are now fixed.
12/1/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #6
- Fixed a bug in displaying font file names and sizes on the
main screen. If PA could not determine the name of the font
file it would display filename/size information for the
previous font.
- Adobe Type Manager toolbar button and Run menu item are only
displayed if PA detects ATM installed on your system.
- Fixed pesky run time error number 453 when running Adobe Type
Manager either from the menu or from the toolbar on the
left side of the screen.
- Added enhanced error checking to all print functions. This should
fix the 380 and 381 errors that some testers have been running
into.
- Fixed a bug when printing uninstalled fonts. If you printed
sample sheets for all fonts in a directory, the last font in
the list was not printed.
- Added enhanced selection features to printing dialog boxes. Now
you can use the Shift and Control keys to select ranges of fonts
in the font name list boxes.
- Removed need for MHTIP32.OCX. This OCX control added tooltips.
Tooltips are now programmed without using the OCX, so the
distribution SETUP.EXE is smaller by 72k.
- Removed need for COMCTL32.OCX. This OCX control provided an easy
way to access the common dialogs in the operating system. Now we
go directly through the Windows API.
11/15/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #5
- Left out MHTIP32.OCX. This resulted in a run time error #367. Fixed.
11/14/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #4
- Fixed DWSBC32.DLL error
- New icon
11/13/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #3
- Fixed run-time error '9' when using the Catalog Wizard to print
uninstalled fonts from a CD or other media.
- Fixed problems with empty TT entries in the standard Print
dialog box when using Canon BubbleJet drivers.
- Fixed run time error number 453 when running Adobe Type
Manager either from the menu or from the toolbar on the
left side of the screen.
- In some cases italic versions of italic ATM fonts were not being
listed. (Thanks to RHG)
- Reduced flickering on main screen for single character and
character set tabs.
- Font Install Wizard - after selecting a series of fonts and
installing them, the code was not changing the picture in the
font listbox to the Windows symbol. The Windows symbol denotes
that the font is installed.
- Dramatic decrease in system resources used by Printer's Apprentice.
This will fix the "Error #7 Out of memory" bugs that users have
been getting when selecting Print from the File menu.
- Changed the style of the toolbar and added tooltips (popular
request)
- Fixed a bug in the Remove Font Wizard. If you had "confirm deletes"
checked, the font filename was displayed twice in the "Are you sure"
dialog box.
- Added a new "Office 95" style caption bar
11/7/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #2
- Updated TABCTRL32.OCX to the latest version (4.01)
- Tested PA with a variety of printer drivers that gave some testers
problems. This should fix the "Run Time Error 5" message.
Tested printers include HP Series II, Epson Stylus Pro,
and HP ColorJet 560c
11/1/96 Printer's Apprentice Beta #1
- First release