I just did a clean install of PageStream 4.09. Same problems. I even added my _ttf folder to font prefs, no dice. I've done every suggestion here. It's getting old, real fast.

Can someone explain to me, the difference of Morphos:Fonts and Morphos:MorphOS/Fonts to me? (My System drive is MorphOS) Funny thing, when I spell check, it sees the words that I typed in. Would my Display engine settings or font smothing have any effect on it?

Thanks for everyones help. I'm trying to get PageStream working so I can do some of my wedding invites and labels.

> Can someone explain to me, the difference of Morphos:Fonts and
> Morphos:MorphOS/Fonts to me?

It's the same as the difference between MorphOS: (aka SYS:) and MorphOS:MorphOS/ (aka MOSSYS:) in general, i.e. the latter contains the private OS fonts while the former is for 3rd party fonts you can install at will.

Have you the option with Pagestream to update/upgrade to version 4.1.5.6 which was the last release for the Amiga 68k from the v4 release, as it is a much more stable release, and if you get the Pro version there are quite a few advantages to the program if you intend using it for more office/graphics related work.

Keep trying some other changes to the program, and a CLEAN install - will NOT necessarily get the program working, it will almost certainly require you changing the CSets, and the fonts assign, and more than likely a completely new Pagestream.prefs file, which it will generate itself if you delete or amend to a different name than the one that was created when you installed/registered it.

I know it is all very 'fiddly' and a nuisance, but it will work, you just have to keep trying options as mentioned, and you will get it working, as I believe most of the MorphOS users who have the program have found it works.

Good luck.

Can one of you take a screen shot of your prefs for your fonts? or maybe send a lha or zip of your prefs file for me to test?

Here is my un-personalised prefs file for Pagestream4.prefs

=== START ===

PREFERENCE FILE
USERNAME "ME - Your own details to be known as"
USERCOMPANY "Home or work address - your choice"
USERREGNUM 6DIGIT
USERPASSWORD 4S5uPlide
RECENTFILES Documents/yours/wherever.pgs
SETDIMENSIONS 8.2677" 11.6929" SINGLE PORTRAIT
SETMARGINGUIDES 0.5" 0.5" 1" 1"
SETCOLUMNGUIDES 2 0.25"
DISPLAYDPI 72 72
SHOWMEMORY TRUE
SHOWDATE TRUE
SHOWTIME TRUE
CENTERONDCLIP TRUE
SETFONTCACHE 100 50 OPENFONTS 50
SETFONTPATH PageStream4:Fonts
SETUNDOLEVELS 60
SETREVISIONTRACKING OFF
SETBACKUP AUTOSAVE OFF AUTOBACKUP ON COUNT 3 PATH Documents/Backups
SETSMART DASHES ON BULLETS ON SINGLEQUOTES ON DOUBLEQUOTES ON
CHARACTERSET Amiga
SETFONT Triumvirate-Normal
SETTYPESIZE 12pt
SETTYPEWIDTH 100%
SETLANGUAGE British
SETPARAGRAPHSTYLE
SETCHARACTERSTYLE
SETALIGNMENT LEFT
SETBOLD OFF
SETITALIC OFF
SETUNDERLINE OFF
SETOUTLINE OFF
SETREVERSE OFF
SETSHADOW OFF
SETSMALLCAPS OFF
SETSCRIPT OFF
SETTRACKTABLE NORMAL
SETTRACKING 0%
SETLASTLINEFLUSH 0cm
SETTRACKRANGE -10% 0% 20% 80% 100% 130%
SETLEADING RELATIVE 120% MAINTAIN OFF
SETBASELINELEADING RELATIVE 80%
SETINDENT NONE
SETFIRSTLINE NONE
SETPARAGRAPHLEADING BEFORE NONE AFTER NONE
SETRULEABOVE OFF
SETRULEBELOW OFF
SETNUMBERED OFF
SETBULLET OFF
SETDROPCAP OFF
SETTABRULER
SETDEFAULTTABSTOP 0.847cm
SETHYPHENATION OFF
SETHYPHENLANGUAGE DEFAULT DATA 6 3 2 1
SETKERNING ON KERNABOVE 4pt
SETLIGATURE ON ANY -20% 20%
SETHANGING ON
SETOPTICAL ON
SETMEASUREMENTS COORDINATE CENTIMETERS SAMEAS RELATIVE SAMEAS TEXT POINTS FROM PAGE
SETDOUBLECLICK REQUESTER LINEFILL
SETDUPLICATEDEFAULTS 0.635cm 0.635cm
SETNUDGEDEFAULTS 0.2cm
SETLIVEUPDATE SCROLL OFF DRAG OFF
SETVIEWDEFAULTS SCALE FULLPAGE SCALERANGE 5% 3000% GRID SHOW SNAPTOGRID OFF DISPLAYGRID INBACK GUIDES HIDE SNAPTOGUIDES OFF DISPLAYGUIDES INBACK RULER SHOW PICTURES SHOW DRAWINGS SHOW OUTLINE SHOW TEXTLINKS HIDE INVISIBLES HIDE PAGECOLOR 255 255 255 PAGEBORDERCOLOR 0 0 0 PAGESHADOWCOLOR 170 170 170 PASTEBOARDCOLOR 230 230 230 GRIDCOLOR 0 0 0 PAGEGUIDECOLOR 0 255 255 RULERGUIDECOLOR 255 0 255
SETAUTOCOLUMNS OFF
FILEFILTER FALSE
SETPASTEINCENTER ON
SELECTONPASTE ON
SETDOCUMENTPATH Documents
SETTEXTPATH Text
SETGRAPHICPATH Graphics
SETSCRIPTPATH Scripts
SETSCRATCHPATH Documents/Backups
SETPDFPATH Documents
SETMAILMERGEPATH Text
SETPRINTPATH Documents
MAINTOOLBOX SHOW AT 0 42 VERTICAL
SETMAGNIFYINCREMENT 200% DRAGZOOM CENTER
SETCOLUMNDEFAULTS OPAQUE GUTTER 0.635cm
SETBOXDEFAULTS CORNER 0.318cm
SETARCDEFAULTS ANGLES 90° 360°
SETPOLYGONDEFAULTS SIDES 3 OFFSETANGLE 0° DEFLECTION 40% ANGLEDEFLECTION 50%
TOOLBAR SHOW AT 0 22
SETTOOLBAR NEW OPEN SAVEDOC PRINT PRINTSETUP EXPORTTEXT EXPORTGRAPHIC SAVEPDF SPACE INSERTPAGE DELETEPAGE MOVEPAGE CUT COPY PASTE PASTEASIS SELECTALL DELETE FONT SETSTYLE MAKEUPPER MAKELOWER MAKECAPITALIZED SPACE UNDO REDO SPACE LEFT CENTER RIGHT JUSTIFY SPELL LINKTEXT BREAKTEXTROUTING SPACE INDENTLEFT INDENTRIGHT HANGINGINDENT SPACE EXECUTE PREFERENCES SPACE LINEFILL INFORMATION
SCREEN Public 1280 1024 16 "Radeon9200: 16Bit 1280 x 1024" "Bitstream Vera Sans.font" 15
SETOUTPUT PostScript
SETOUTPUT1 SOURCE Tray2 PAPER A4 8.2639" 11.6944" 0" 0" PORTRAIT
SETOUTPUT2 PPD softlogik:printers/ppd/HP/HP5-ColorLaserJet_PS.ppd SENDTO DEVICE USBPAR:
SETOUTPUT3 CYANSCREEN DEFAULT DEFAULT MAGENTASCREEN DEFAULT DEFAULT YELLOWSCREEN DEFAULT DEFAULT BLACKSCREEN DEFAULT DEFAULT SPOTSCREEN DEFAULT DEFAULT
SETOUTPUT4 INCLUDEERRORHANDLER FALSE INCLUDEEOF TRUE
SETOUTPUT5 FONTUNLOAD DOCUMENT UCR 80% GCR 100%

=== END ===

Hope this helps, but I tried changing items in my prefs file, but it made no difference, so after changing some other prefs and other files and settings I eventually got Pagestream to work for me under MorphOS v3.1 originally I think it was.

Since then I have only needed to leave it in place when upgrading so haven't bothered, or needed to change anything about it, so it works really well, though there are the few occasional bits of weirdness that creeps in, but on the whole it functions very well.

I really hope you get it fixed, but just keep trying something different if this doesn't work, and eventually it will work. I wish I could tell you what it needs to get it to function properly, but I just cannot figure out exactly what it was that resolved my own issues with Pagestream 4, but as others have said it does work, and I just finished using it for the day a few minutes ago, under MorphOS v3.7..

OK.. tried that didn't do anything really.

How does your fonts prefs look?

I set my default font drawer to Pagestream4:Fonts like you did.

Are your font drawers Pagestream4:Fonts/StandardFonts
Pagestream4:Fonts/Intellifonts
Pagestream4:Fonts/StudioFonts
Pagestream4:Fonts/SoftlogikFonts

Or something else? I see the issue now, it doesn't see my fonts! I tried setting different drawers as my default font drawer and then adding drawers with fonts, no luck. I tried Pagestream:Fonts Pagestream3:Fonts Pagestream4:Fonts Fonts:

When I removed the default drawers then it saw no fonts. I belive it was /Fonts as the default drawer. Re-adding it back did nothing, fonts did not appear in the list like before.

It's working now, at least under Pagestream 4.09. All I had to do was to assign the default drawer to Pagestream:Fonts which didn't work on Pagestream 4.1.5.6 BIG THANKS to all who helped, esp to NewSense!

I appreciate you thanking me, but I'm just really glad it's now working as it should for you, and that you stuck with trying other things to resolve it. Now you can ENJOY using it.

Like everyone else said ...... Pagestream 4 does work with MorphOS .........

... but it's a 'pig' to get worked out what exactly you need to change to get it to do what it should from a standard install.

Why it does that I really cannot say, but I wish Deron Kazmaier would come up with either a replacement installer routine that fixes this issue, as there must be lots of people who would use this program, as it's the best DTP for MorphOS as the moment.

Additionally, if he spent sufficient time & effort in fixing/de-bugging the versions of Pagestream 5 that he already released, and the MorphOS version that is supposed to be in the pipeline, then we'd have a much better DTP package for MorphOS, and probably for the other Amiga 'like' OS's as well.

DTP doesn't really need CPU horsepower, just effective code to do what it is supposed to do, and no bugs, preferably.



[ Edited by NewSense 19.10.2014 - 14:17 ]

Just to tidy up the thread..

1. I adjusted the default tool for the the installer and made sure it is the supplied installer that comes with Pagestream. By default the MOS installer was running and installing Pagestream

2. I followed the suggestion of pointing the Default Font Drawer to Pagestream:Fonts and created a "Truetype" folder in the default font drawer for new fonts.

3. I also emptied the CSets folder and moved everything to 'Disabled'

Thanks again, just posting here what I did in case someone needs it for future reference.

Quote:

Finally looked this again, and I got them working now :) I had to open the "File->System Preferences->Fonts..." window from Pagestream and then update all the font drawer paths! Click the Update button for each and save, and then the default font etc do work every time you start the program.

Here's a screenshot of that window: pagestreamfonts.png