| W0001 |
Remove the 10 character filename limit |
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| Description |
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Filenames in Impression have a maximum length of 10 characters.
This limit was imposed as older filing systems supported only
10 characters for filenames. In RISC OS 4 and later, the adfs
filer has been extended to cope with longer filenames.
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| Problem |
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Altough it should be relatively easy to implement longer filenames,
there is a potential problem when using the old style impression
file format (i.e. all items stored inside a directory structure).
Such files have a sprite (a capital 'I') with the same name as the
document. Sprite names under RISC OS have a maximum name length
of 12 characters. So, we need to have some form of truncation on
the name.
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| Status |
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Under investigation.
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| W0002 |
Replace Preferences by ConfiX |
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| Description |
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At present, the program's preferences are hard-wired in the
main code. As it might be desirable to add some new choices,
we'd like to replace the entire Preferences section by our
ConfiX application.
At the same time Preferences should be renamed to Choices
to be in line with other software.
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| Status |
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Under investigation.
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| W0003 |
Replace CC proprietary icons by standard Acorn ones |
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| Description |
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All windows and icons in Impression are build by CC's own ABI
module, rather than using the standard OS icons. The reason for
this is that, at the time CC built Impression, RISC OS didn't
feature 3-D icons. As it is now possible to redesign the system's
icons (e.g. under RISC OS 4 Select) it might be desirable to replace
all buttons in Impression by standard OS ones.
At the same time, the extreme level of making everything 3D (such
as the writable icons) might be removed, releasing space for other
useful extentions.
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| Problem |
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Although this should be possible, it's going to be a major task.
The way in which icons are defined in the ABI system is significantly
different to the standard OS ones. Hence the reason for giving it
a low priority at the moment.
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| W0004 |
Better support for Mail Merging |
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| Description |
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Mail Merging has always been a pain on Impression. Although the
Impulse Message system, used to support Mail Merging, works fine,
the actual implementation has always caused confusion.
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| W0005 |
Support for tables |
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| Description |
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Tables are commonly used in documents and have always been lacking
in Impression. Support for simple (single line) tables is possible
through the Style mechanism, but for more complex tables, external
support is needed.
In the past, TableMate could be used alongside, but it is uncertain
whether or not it will be available in 32-bit.
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| W0006 |
Support for Word and XML files |
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| Description |
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In the past separate loader/saver modules have been available for
Impression to allow foreign file formats, such as RTF and Word Perfect.
As Word is the common 'standard' these days, we need to have an
import/export facility for Word files. Another useful addition might
be to have XML import/export in the same format as Open Office.
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| Status |
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To be investigated. Any ideas would be welcome.
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| W0007 |
Support for PNG images |
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| Description |
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Sprite is the only bitmap file format natively supported by
Impression. Transloaders were used to support other file formats such
as JPEG and TIFF. It might be neccesary to add support for newer formats,
such as PNG.
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| Status |
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To be investigated. Any help on PNG would be welcome.
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| W0008 |
Remove current limit of 77 graphics per chapter |
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| Description |
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At present any chapter may contain up to 77 graphics before
you have to create a new chapter. This limit was imposed by
the old ADFS limitation of allowing a maximum of 77 entries
per directory.
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| Status |
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Under investigation.
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| W0009 |
Redesign the printer dialogue windows |
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| Description |
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In the last release of Publisher Plus (5.13) the printer dialogue
windows had become rather messy. Many new features were added, mostly
related to professional typesetting.
At the same time, support for the old Draft printer drivers may
be removed as there really isn't any reason to keep them any longer.
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| Status |
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Under development.
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| W0010 |
Undo/Redo buffer |
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| Description |
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Impression has no facilities to undo the last action.
It would be nice to be able to undo at least the last action.
An infinite undo buffer would be even better...
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| Status |
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To be investigated.
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| W0011 |
Clear selection |
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| Description |
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At present it's impossible to clear a selection of frames (i.e.
select no frame. This would be useful when previewing your artwork.
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| W0012 |
Clear frame contents (i.e. Empty Frame) |
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| Description |
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It would be very useful if the contents of a frame could be
deleted, so that the frame can be used for something else.
This way, a text frame could be altered into a graphics frame
and vice versa. At present the only way to do this, is to
delete the frame and create a new one.
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| Status |
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To be investigated.
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| W0013 |
Use of '/' in filenames |
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| Description |
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At present the '/' cannot be used in filenames, which would be
useful when exporting text bits with DOS extension, e.g. in RTF or WP format.
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| W0014 |
Select all (frames on a page) |
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| Description |
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It would be useful to select all frames on a page in one go, and move
them around together.
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| W0015 |
Easier adding of words to the Index |
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| Description |
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At present, when adding words to the index (not the contents), you need
to select a word and then apply an Index-style to it. This is rather time
consuming and requires many key clicks and/or key presses. It would be
nice to be able to add words to the index in a simpler manner.
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| Solution |
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One possible solution would be to add some kind of 'index mode'. When
in index mode, all you need to do is double click on a word to add it
to the index. Once finished, all you need to do is turn off index mode.
Please give us your feeling on this.
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| W0016 |
Printing range of pages |
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| Description |
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The printing dialogue currently offers the choice to print either all
or a range of pages. The latter uses a lower and an upper limit (from / to).
Some people have suggested the ability to enter a 'random' range of pages
in a text field.
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| Solution |
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A writable icon could be added to the printer dialogue. The user would then
have the choice to select (a) all pages, (b) a from/to range of pages,
(c) the current page, (d) a random range of pages.
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| W0017 |
Improved pamphlet printing |
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| Description |
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At present pamphlet printing (i.e. a booklet) is rather limited as it doesn't
correctly support duplex printers. Furthermore additional impositioning schemes
are desirable.
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| W0018 |
Remove references to unused fonts |
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| Description |
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Any font used in a document will be remembered forever. This may cause a warning
to be displayed each time the document is opened on a machine that doesn't contain
that font.
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| Solution |
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A function should be added to compile a list of active fonts.
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