[softwarelist] Re: O-Pro's future

In message <7963f4b64f.chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Chris Hughes <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As to whether I would purchase an update would depend nowadays on what
> the new features were. Direct PDF export similar to EasiWriter, would
> get me upgrading.

I can only hope that EasiWriter's PDF export works better than the
PostScript saving offered by TechWriter 8.54 (I can find no mention
of PDF, so presume that the version I have is too old).

I've been trying to understand problems that I've experienced with
failing to embed font definitions in PostScript files, so I thought
I'd create a simple file in TechWriter.  I opened a window and typed

   Mary had a little lamb.<return>

Then I dragged a Sprite file (TechWriter's own !Sprites22) to the
window.  What could be simpler than one line of text and one image?

When saved as PostScript, GView refuses to touch it.  Unfortunately
it also displays its error report in a window which can't be saved,
so this is from *ps2ps (AFAICS the text is identical)-

   Error: /undefined in gBox:
   Operand stack:
      --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   Execution stack:
      %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
      --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
      --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
      %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
      %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
      --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
   Dictionary stack:
      --dict:1055/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--
      --dict:104/200(L)--
   Current allocation mode is local
   Last OS error: 87
   Current file position is 86624
   GPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Helpful, isn't it.   :-(

The error message produced by my PostScript printer, when asked to print
the same file, is somewhat terser, but no more helpful.  Printing the
file from TW, via the PostScript printer driver, works as one would hope,
so I think we can exonerate the printer driver from blame.


No doubt I'll be told that I should spend more money in order that I can
experience the joys of the latest version of TechWriter, but that raises
an interesting question.  Can anyone remember when we last had to pay for
an upgrade to OPro?  Can anyone who has taken all the paid-for upgrades
to Easi/TechWriter since that time tell us how much he's spent on so doing?
My guess is that it will be in the hundreds of pounds.



Chris
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