[softwarelist] Re: Layout sheet

In message <4ae169aa4e.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
I get it, too, with 2.77 on a standard Iyonix (RO 5.10).  Some documents
seem to do it more than others (it never seems to crash with Archive
templates, for example, while a relatively complex newsletter I edit can
crash Ovation every other minute if I'm unlucky).
One thing about software is that it can be used in different ways. Over my career I've seen a few bugs which depended on how people typed or pressed the mouse button. Hopefully we've moved beyond that level of problem, but with a program like Ovation Pro there is such huge scope that any user may be the only one to use a certain feature in a certain way, and that may reveal a bug. 

In other words what *you* are doing is not normal.


I keep seeing mention of a 'known' frame overlap bug, but I've never seen
a mention of what this bug is or what kinds of layout to avoid.  The
newsletter contains a lot of overlaid frames, which I why I'm wondering
about it.
I have it mind to sort this out immediately - not because of your email, I'd already started. My preliminary investigations show that it does not occur with rectangular frames. I'm sure the problem is with frames composed of lines and curves, triggering it relies on positioning being just right - to within a 1000th of an inch. 



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