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terminills

# 126
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

amigadave wrote:
Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Hopefully one of the members here that is proficient in programming and Reggae
> support (perhaps the creator of the "advanced data interchange system" called
> Reggae) will step forward and offer to help you add Reggae support

Unfortunately, Reggae creator Krashan left MorphOS some years back.

I didn't know (or I had forgotten, same thing to my perspective) that he had left. That is unfortunate to lose talented members of the MorphOS Dev. Team, and specially those who have created parts that make MorphOS more efficient.

Quote:

terminills wrote:
The little bit I understand of reggae is it would help with memory usage as it's more efficient than datatypes. Other than that who knows.

I would think that Reggae being more efficient with memory usage also means that it would speed up the opening of files that it supports within Final Writer, and make the experience as a whole feel quicker and more responsive (but I could be inflating my expectations of what adding Reggae support would add to Final Writer, or just stating an obvious benefit).

Due to how efficient it is compared to more modern word processors. I don’t think you would notice it much on anything beyond the efika.

[ Edited by terminills 14.12.2019 - 10:04 ]
»14.12.19 - 11:02

terminills

# 127
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Just a couple of screenshots to show that progress is indeed still being made.

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Gallery

[ Edited by terminills 26.10.2020 - 11:21 ]
»26.10.20 - 12:18

Amigaharry2

# 128
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1320 from 2010/1/6

From: EU-Austria (Wien)

Excellent!!
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»26.10.20 - 19:19

discreetfx

# 129
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 397 from 2003/7/26

From: Chicago, IL

Very nice, how much?
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»26.10.20 - 19:22

polluks

# 130
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 821 from 2007/10/23

From: Gelsenkirchen,...

Very good
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»26.10.20 - 20:44

NewSense

# 131
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Will Final Writer be able to save documents as a PDF?

Will it allow printing by a user to a selectable "device", i.e. PAR: , USBPAR: ?

Quote:

terminills wrote (11-July-2015) : Not yet but we're much closer to me feeling comfortable setting a firm deadline. :)

Ouch! That's a longer wait than I realised, as this thread started way back on 3-Oct-2012, so it's been underway for over 8 years already.

@ terminills - Are you realistically near a completion/release date for Final Writer v7 for AROS or any other OS, including MorphOS?
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»27.10.20 - 01:50

terminills

# 132
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
Will Final Writer be able to save documents as a PDF?

Yes, it will. RTF has been updated to the final spec as well. I have many future enhancements planned based on how quickly I can recover my costs.

Quote:

Will it allow printing by a user to a selectable "device", i.e. PAR: , USBPAR: ?

Yes you can print to selectable devices and PDFDirect support has been started but it'll take a little bit before I would say that is feature complete.

Quote:

Quote:

terminills wrote (11-July-2015) : Not yet but we're much closer to me feeling comfortable setting a firm deadline. :)

Ouch! That's a longer wait than I realised, as this thread started way back on 3-Oct-2012, so it's been underway for over 8 years already.

Technically I've owned it since 2015. There has been many bug fixes due to old coding styles.

Quote:

@ terminills - Are you realistically near a completion/release date for Final Writer v7 for AROS or any other OS, including MorphOS?

I would say there's a slim possibility of before the end of the year.
»27.10.20 - 10:52

NewSense

# 133
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Quote:

NewSense wrote: @ terminills - Are you realistically near a completion/release date for Final Writer v7 for AROS or any other OS, including MorphOS?

Quote:

terminills wrote: I would say there's a slim possibility of before the end of the year.

Are you meaning . . . the end of this year (2020) . . . or some other year?
And . . . is that for the AROS version, or another version, all versions or some other scenario, specifically?

Thanks for the info about printing to devices I asked about, and what sort of cost do you have in mind for it when you are ready for its full new release?
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»28.10.20 - 05:26

terminills

# 134
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
Quote:

NewSense wrote: @ terminills - Are you realistically near a completion/release date for Final Writer v7 for AROS or any other OS, including MorphOS?

Quote:

terminills wrote: I would say there's a slim possibility of before the end of the year.

Are you meaning . . . the end of this year (2020) . . . or some other year?
And . . . is that for the AROS version, or another version, all versions or some other scenario, specifically?

Thanks for the info about printing to devices I asked about, and what sort of cost do you have in mind for it when you are ready for its full new release?

Lol This year. :D
»28.10.20 - 14:02

NewSense

# 135
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

@ terminills - I suppose 1 answer to 3 questions has to be considered a better response than none.
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»29.10.20 - 05:06

terminills

# 136
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
@ terminills - I suppose 1 answer to 3 questions has to be considered a better response than none.

Well, to be fair I'm not 100% sure on any dates, versions, etc yet.
»30.10.20 - 10:19

NewSense

# 137
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Quote:

Quote:

NewSense wrote: @ terminills - Are you realistically near a completion/release date for Final Writer v7 for AROS or any other OS, including MorphOS?

Quote:

terminills wrote: I would say there's a slim possibility of before the end of the year.

Are you meaning . . . the end of this year (2020) . . . or some other year?

Quote:

terminills wrote: Lol This year. :D

@ terminills - Are you still sure it's going to be 2020 for the release of Final Writer 7 - "the resurrection"?
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»29.12.20 - 07:50

NewSense

# 138
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Anyone know anything about the situation with development of Final Writer currently, as terminills never made it to an actual release in 2020, and we're now over half way through 2021 and still no sign of it being released AFAIK?
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»20.08.21 - 23:47

Andreas_Wolf

# 139
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12370 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> Anyone know anything about the situation with development of Final Writer
> currently, as terminills never made it to an actual release in 2020, and we're
> now over half way through 2021 and still no sign of it being released AFAIK?

Last update that I'm aware of was in March this year:
https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=40028&forum=2&start=280#840011
»21.08.21 - 10:39

terminills

# 140
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
Anyone know anything about the situation with development of Final Writer currently, as terminills never made it to an actual release in 2020, and we're now over half way through 2021 and still no sign of it being released AFAIK?

I'm sorry I do tend to forget to check this site. I'd like to say we've done a feature freeze(feature creep is evil btw) for this version and it's now down to bugfixes.
»10.02.22 - 11:56

polluks

# 141
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 821 from 2007/10/23

From: Gelsenkirchen,...

Quote:

terminills schrieb:
I'm sorry I do tend to forget to check this site. I'd like to say we've done a feature freeze(feature creep is evil btw) for this version and it's now down to bugfixes.

Good news!
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»10.02.22 - 23:39

NewSense

# 142
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Quote:

terminills wrote: I'm sorry I do tend to forget to check this site.

So where is the best place for us to either monitor where you're up to, and if necessary ask about where the project is up to?
Quote:

terminills wrote: I'd like to say we've done a feature freeze(feature creep is evil btw) for this version and it's now down to bugfixes.

So, do you have any time-frame, such as, sometime in 2022 for fixing all the issues, prior to a release?

By the way, thanks for the "heads-up" as well.

[ Edited by NewSense 11.02.2022 - 00:01 ]
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»11.02.22 - 01:00

terminills

# 143
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
Quote:

terminills wrote: I'm sorry I do tend to forget to check this site.

So where is the best place for us to either monitor where you're up to, and if necessary ask about where the project is up to?
Quote:

terminills wrote: I'd like to say we've done a feature freeze(feature creep is evil btw) for this version and it's now down to bugfixes.

So, do you have any time-frame, such as, sometime in 2022 for fixing all the issues, prior to a release?

By the way, thanks for the "heads-up" as well.

I'm going to try to keep everyone updated as the release gets closer. I'm quite happy with where we're at currently.

Finalwriter.png

fw2.png
»11.02.22 - 01:27

terminills

# 144
Butterfly

Posts: 100 from 2012/3/12

Quote:

NewSense wrote:
Quote:

terminills wrote: I'm sorry I do tend to forget to check this site.

So where is the best place for us to either monitor where you're up to, and if necessary ask about where the project is up to?
Quote:

terminills wrote: I'd like to say we've done a feature freeze(feature creep is evil btw) for this version and it's now down to bugfixes.

So, do you have any time-frame, such as, sometime in 2022 for fixing all the issues, prior to a release?

By the way, thanks for the "heads-up" as well.

I'm going to try to keep everyone updated as the release gets closer. I'm quite happy with where we're at currently.

Finalwriter.png

fw2.png
»11.02.22 - 01:27

NewSense

# 145
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

@ terminills - thanks for the quick reply, and the images of your progress with FinalWriter v7.
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»11.02.22 - 03:58

Andreas_Wolf

# 146
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12370 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> where is the best place for us to either monitor where you're
> up to, and if necessary ask about where the project is up to?

To me it seems like the amigaworld.net thread linked to in comment #139 would be this place.
»11.02.22 - 12:33

Primax

# 147
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 186 from 2021/7/2

To find out the current status, this gives a nice overview:
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2022-02-00037-EN.html
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»12.02.22 - 05:18

NewSense

# 148
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

Still no news on this project, 2020 came and went, as did 2021, and we are nearly out of 2022 with, sadly, no news for a few months on its progress &/or likelihood of its release.

I did notice that there is no comment on the AmigaNews thread mentioned above, but found other news on Amiga News 12-July-2022 - FinalWriter progress, which links to FinalWriter's own website though there's not much activity on there, apart from a page with a few gallery images.

I have sent a contact message to the site for any news there might be, so I am awaiting a reply, and will pass that information on here, unless this thread gets updated by its author sooner than any reply that I may get back.
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»30.11.22 - 23:51

Andreas_Wolf

# 149
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12370 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> there is no comment on the AmigaNews thread mentioned above

The German section is the usual place to look for comments on amiga-news.de. There, the news article has as much as 34 comments, all in German though ;-)
»01.12.22 - 00:32

NewSense

# 150
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/10

From: Manchester, UK/GB

And . . . this was the reply I received back from Contact Us @ FinalWriter - godaddy website "There’s been a fairly significant update made but my developer is not ready for me to announce it."

So, that's a major improvement over what we were already told . . . NOT! (This is becoming a joke - not a funny one!)
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»01.12.22 - 09:29