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Does anyone know of a way the dbl space paragraphs and font sizing between the above issues can be resolved without individually selecting each text object, I have a lot of large publications, and a tight development schedule.

Presently I am not able to use the newer version as it would means hours and hours of re-work, to essentailly stand still - plus, the email object doesn't appear to be working


Regards

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

Many changes have been made to the graphics and text engine in Opus Pro XE 04 and publications imported from older versions of Opus may display text formatting issues and require slight modification.

Principally the old text engine had reached the end of its lifecycle - it no longer allowed us the control we required in order to take the product forwards. It took more effort to do something new (and very minor) with the old text engine than it would to to start again with a more flexible, expandable text engine. As a result, visual discrepancies may arise when older publications are imported into Opus Pro XE 04, but we have tried to keep this to a minimum and have added additional tools (such as the ability to reduce font sizes throughout the publication using the Replace Font tool) to help users correct any incorrect formatting.

In Opus Pro XE 2.81, any animations or transitions applied to text objects would convert the text object to a bitmap and often resulted in unacceptable pixellation. This also occured when text objects were inserted into frames. The Opus Pro XE 04 text engine eliminates these problems and vastly improves the performance of text rendering during transitions and animations.

Finally, the old text engine was very memory-inefficient and would often struggle to keep up with user input in the editor and at runtime. The new text engine is much faster than Opus Pro XE 2.81 and should eliminate 'lag' during input.

I hope you can understand the necessity of this new text engine. We always try to ensure that new versions of our software are backwards-compatible with older files, but have never guaranteed 100% compatibility and do not recommend importing large near-complete publications into new versions of the software.

To correct text import problems from older publications, you should be able to use the Replace Font utility in the Tools menu to reduce all font sizes by 0.5 points. This should compensate for antialiasing of fonts and allow text to fit within the original text objects. To correct line spacing issues, simply select the affected text object and click Text > Paragraph, then set the Line Spacing to "Single". Text object should now display in the same way as Opus Pro 2.81.

However, if this procedure is too time-consuming, I would recommend completing your project in the original version of Opus Pro XE, then creating any new publications in Opus Pro XE 04. As long as you still have the original Opus Pro XE 2.81 publication file, or accepted the option to backup the publication when you imported it into Pro XE 04, this should not be a problem.

I hope this helps. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,

Thank you for your reply, I understand the need to move forward, and 04 is precisely that, sadly, the font replacement tool you spoke of requires that a specific font size be set rather than + or - a point size (unless I'm missing something). As for the dbl spacing, What would be helpful - if I could manually select all the text objects on a page, and then gain access to the paragraph dialog - this doesn't seem possible, but would be really useful.

Very Best Regards

I have found the problem and it will be fixed for the next service release.

Tony

Hi Tony,

Regrarding the double line spacing problem - Do you know when the next service release will be which includes a fix for this problem - or at least the ability to select multiple text objects and change their line spacing together?

Have just downloaded the latest service release to OPUS_04_SR2 hoping for a fix there, but there doesn't seem to be one.

/Mark