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After experiencing a regression in Sp 4 and then being told by a VAR that it is a current limitation so I need to submit an enhancement request (what?? so what was this function all those years that it worked correctly, an accident?) , I came up with the following idea: a De-enhancement List. Someone with lots of time on their hands could keep a running tally of enhancements (250 or so advertised with each new release) versus de-enhancements (i.e. regressions). Would the numbers be equal? This would be a somewhat objective way of measuring the quality of a release or service pack.

Eric

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Eric
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Eric

Just out of curiosity, what was the regression? I have bit my lip on a few "issues" because they have served me well in the past, I hope this is not one of them

Ben

Ben

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Ben Eadie

What was the regression in SP4

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j

Eric,

FYI there is a 4.1 SP available. Not sure what your regression was but maybe this one fixed it. (but probably trashed 10 other things that worked before)

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j

How's this for a regression. Just down loaded and installed sp 4.1 trying to open an 8 meg 5 page drawing with sp 3.4 the drawing opens in 28 sec just took 8 mins to open with sp 4.1 If I open the assembly first fully resolve the models than i can open the drawing.

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drt

It seems either very few people deal with files that large, or it's just a few of us that are having this problem. My VAR is stumped on this one too...

drt wrote:

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hayduke

If you create a PDF of drawing file using the Save As PDF function, and the drawing has embedded Word objects in it, the objects print out with a box around them. You can choose a "Sharpen Zoom State" option for the Word document to get rid of the box, but it prints out at poor resolution, and the boxed area is no longer transparent, so it obscures anything behind it (such as another OLE object that happens to overlap).

The VAR came back and said that this is now a "limitation" of the software, not a bug.

This is probably a non-issue for 99% of users, but we have thousands of documents with embedded Word objects, so there's no way we want to re-do them with native SWX text, plus Word is better at formatting than SWX. I just got done integrating Ghostscript into my macro so we can once again print to pdf silently, and documents look correct again. Lots of time down the drain...

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Eric

Just say no to "SaveAsPDF"--SW consistently manages to screw it up, why not just move on and use something that actually works?

You can solve your problem by purchasing a copy of PDFCreate (under $50). You could probably also solve it with one of the free pdf writers, but I don't have one handy to check it for you.

If you'd like, I'll email you some PDF's demonstrating the cure...

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Michael

Hey - someone could earn some money for keeping the list - of course Sw would not pay the salary but perhaps one of Sw's competitors might ! ? You should try Eric or shhhhh -- JB who has time on his hands

Jonathan

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jjs

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