Creator Pro 8.0 has BUGS

[Joe Sporleder]

I think Multi-Ad otta fire all of their beta testers! ;-) A tech  
consultant for the Kansas Press Association says that Illustrator and  
InDesign are the way to go for ad design and pagination anyways!  
<snicker>

Joe

On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Steve Mills wrote:

> On Apr 24, 2007, at 08:47:09, Jeffrey Mehlhorn wrote:
>
>> We are holding off on upgrading all of our clients because I  
>> tested the new
>> 8.0 and its just not usable for production on our end. There are  
>> some major
>> problems with the way it handles text (slices off tops and bottoms of
>> letters). Reported as Bug number 9636.
>
> It doesn't do this when printing to PostScript does it? It prints  
> fine in my tests, and it should because it sends the text to the  
> printer, not the rendered glyphs. While it is annoying onscreen, in  
> exported bitmap images, and when printed on bitmap printers, I'm  
> not sure it's a *major* problem.
>
>> There is also a problems using the
>> Command-Y feature which we all used in the past versions.
>
> You can always use the Arrange palette to do this until we release  
> the fix.
>
>> Plus I am having
>> lots of problems with fonts not showing up properly in PDF’s that are
>> produced by Creator Pro 8.0. The fonts look fine when the PDF is  
>> open up in
>> Acrobat or when the PDF is placed in Creator 7.0.2, but when  
>> placed in the
>> new C8.0, certain characters do not show up properly. This might be a
>> problem on my end, but I’m not sure, but it is pretty strange  
>> behavior from
>> one version to the next. Let me know if anyone else is having this  
>> problem.
>> You would think some of this would of been caught during beta  
>> testing.
>
> Did you test this with any betas during our beta test period? Just  
> curious.