Version 3.0.3 Released

Monday, January 17. 2011

The 3.0.3 release fixes a minor startup problem, which caused Creative Docs .NET to hang if there was no network connection or if the connection could not be established with www.creativedocs.net.

This conection happens at most once every day, in order to check if a new version of the software is available. It does nothing much, just access the URL:

http://www.creativedocs.net/update/check?software=CreativeDocs&version=3.0.002.1049

(for instance) and it gets back a reply telling the software that it is either up-to-date, or that a newer version exists, with the URL of the new installer. And Creative Docs .NET notifies the user with the following message:

A newer version exists...

Posted by Pierre Arnaud at 07:06 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Would it be possible to get a manual in Spanish, of this great program?, I would learn to use it, thanks, greetings.

#1 Marta on 2011-01-30 12:57

Hello Marta,

No, sorry, there is no documentation whatsoever for Creative Docs .NET.

Pierre

#1.1 Pierre Arnaud (Link) on 2011-01-31 05:57

I thought that this is my PC issue but you have also *totally blurry fonts*. Will it ever be fixed?

#2 sfenson on 2011-02-09 01:59

The blurry fonts is a feature which allows Creative Docs .NET to position very precisely the character shapes (glyphs) so that the general layout is as perfect as possible.

The drawback of this subpixel positioning is that we do not use hints stored in the font, which would be very difficult to honor in a meaningful way. And we have to anti-alias the outline of the characters, which leads to the blurryness you are seeing.

#2.1 Pierre Arnaud (Link) on 2011-02-09 04:54

"general layout is as perfect as possible"
Strange to read that.

GUI layout is far from perfect if it hurts user eyes.

Is it not possible to use your feature for documents layout but to leave GUI rendering to operating system (or default .NET controls settings)?

#3 sfenson on 2011-02-09 12:25

You are right, the GUI could use ClearType fonts in order to have a bette legibility. This issue is already in our bug tracker (and has been since 2004, sadly).

We don't use any standard .NET Control for the UI... everything is vector-based, just like in WPF. Having the possibility to scale the UI by any (fractional) ratio seemed a good idea, but we never really used this feature. So indeed, we should be able to layout the text using the typographic hints.

#3.1 Pierre Arnaud (Link) on 2011-02-09 14:29

Thank you for your explanation.
I will cross my fingers for future releases.

#4 sfensony on 2011-02-10 17:40

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