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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Posts: 147 from 2013/8/25
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    NewSense wrote:
    @ jPV - You're right, as usual.

    I had just used a screenmode higher than 8-bit and the program cannot handle that, it will work OK on 8-bit screens, up to 256 colours, but higher than that it seems, and it's almost unuseable - as I set it up when I first used MorphOS to use a 24 bit screen, and the background was so dark I could barely even make out the mouse cursor on the screen/GUI.



    If I select "Same as Workbench" it also works well for me (Not at MorphOS at the moment - but believe this was the final option under the various screenmodes).
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Posts: 2166 from 2003/2/24
    From: po-RNO
    Quote:

    Ginger1 wrote:
    Quote:

    NewSense wrote:
    @ jPV - You're right, as usual.

    I had just used a screenmode higher than 8-bit and the program cannot handle that, it will work OK on 8-bit screens, up to 256 colours, but higher than that it seems, and it's almost unuseable - as I set it up when I first used MorphOS to use a 24 bit screen, and the background was so dark I could barely even make out the mouse cursor on the screen/GUI.



    If I select "Same as Workbench" it also works well for me (Not at MorphOS at the moment - but believe this was the final option under the various screenmodes).


    It probably depends on what kind of screenmode you have set for Ambient then. With my 24bit (enhanced) Ambient screen I got wrong colors with the "Same as Workbench" option.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/9
    From: Manchester, UK/GB
    I was looking to load up Final Writer 97 / 5.06 for some word processing earlier, and got a blank GUI window with the Final Writer title screen, and then a freeze/lockup on my system so you couldn't do anything else, other than reboot.

    Thought the prefs might be faulty, so dispensed with the old ones for new ones to be created on re-startup of the program, and sure enough I got the Final Writer ScreenMode requester, so chose an 8 bit screen with 256 colours but the same situation occurred again - freeze/lockup - anyone else encountered the same issues recently? :-?

    I can't use/get Final Writer to load up at the moment. I'll try a few other changes but I am not optimistic it's resolvable ATM. :-(
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Posts: 2166 from 2003/2/24
    From: po-RNO
    I still have the same Final Writer installation and the same settings, and it still works just fine for me. I've occasionally written small documents with it and printted them without problems. And it still starts fine now with the latest MorphOS versions etc... so hard to say, but let's see if we figure out anything...

    [ Edited by jPV 07.01.2021 - 20:17 ]
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 616 from 2003/11/24
    From: Belgrade
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    NewSense wrote:
    Regarding PageStream v5 - forget it - it's basically useless. Buy PageStream v4.1.5.6 Pro - that works OK on MorphOS, it does crash/freeze on the odd occasion, but save regularly and you should be OK. It's generally OK, but when you put your trust that it's OK, and haven't saved frequently - then 'sod's law' takes over and lets you down. :-(

    I use PgS 4.1.5.6 Pro regularly and that's why I can say it's OK. 8-)



    I have both PGS m68k versions, but since I dont have previous experience with it,
    I find DTP programme a bit difficult compared to e.g. Amiga Writter.

    Any 3rd solution for easy WYSWYG text editing, or some advanced tutorial in PGS4?

    PGS5 Windows works well, too bad MOS, m68k, OS4 versions are so buggy and broken.
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