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Chuq Von Rospach (chuq%plaid@Sun.COM) previously posted several gripes about
Ready,Set,Go! 4.5.  Here are a couple more:

1.  RSG 4.5 appears to have *serious* problems with any font that doesn't
include a width table in its FOND resource.  This includes all of the
standard Apple fonts except the PostScript screen fonts (Times etc.)
Try the following experiment: make a text box, select bold Geneva, and type
a few words.  The way the words shift around is truly remarkable (use the
largest size of Geneva you have to make the effect most obvious).  Also,
cursor positioning in the text gets very strange.  It appears that RSG has
forgotten how to calculate widths of modified (bold, extended, condensed)
fonts unless the FOND resource tells it how.  I also saw some strange
behavior with underlined text (like interword space going to zero), but
can't reproduce it right now.

Since I don't use PostScript fonts, this problem alone makes 4.5 unusable.
Perhaps I could fix it by running all my fonts through Fontastic and
creating FOND width tables, but I don't see why RSG should not be expected
to cope with out-of-the-box Apple fonts.

2.  Chuq mentioned that 4.5 is a tremendous memory hog, but he didn't make
it clear that it is also a *disk* hog.  Converting a 4.0a RSG document to
4.5 format roughly doubles the disk space occupied by the document.  This is
for good-size documents (tens of pages), so it's not just a question of
somewhat more overhead for font tables.  Does Letraset own stock in some
disk drive companies???


I'd be willing to accept the resource usage in tradeoff for the new features,
but until they fix the font bugs I'm staying with 4.0a.  I wish I had my
$50+ upgrade charge back.  If I had bought 4.5 at full price I'd be REALLY
annoyed.

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