Read Me
Solo 3.1.5 is a maintenance update which delivers fixes to user reported problems with previous releases of the Windows version of the software. We encourage all users to update to this version by following the installation instructions found in the "Read Me.txt" document.
This Solo update can be used to update an individual machine or a number of machines by creating a network installation folder.
Creating a Network Installation with this update...
To run the Installer on a Windows network, copy the Solo key file from the first disk of the original installation disk set (it has a file extension of ".X1K") into the "Solo 3.x.x Update" folder.
Copy the folder to a network server volume. Instruct your users to mount the server volume, double-click the "Install.EXE" installation program in the update folder and follow the prompts to update their copy of Solo.
Change History
Fixes to Solo 3.1.4 delivered in this Update:
- Added two levels of warning messages when deleting master named objects from the Named Objects dialog.
- PICTs containing EPS information now print correctly.
- Solo no longer reports too little disk space, when MORE than 2 G bytes of free space is available on the boot drive.
- Character clipping (dropouts) in Solo tables, when printing using some older printer drivers, has been corrected.
- Fixed a crash problem when vertically resizing a chart, or sometimes when simply switching from the Storyboard to the Page Editor view. This would only occur on some specific hardware configurations.
- A crash problem with spell checking using the Spanish dictionary, has been corrected.
- The Storyboard display no longer gets "out-of-synch" when viewing pages in the Slideshow.
- Slideshow settings no longer become corrupt under certain circumstances. Documents which may have exhibited this problem, may need to have their settings reset using this (3.1.5) version of the software.
- The HP 5L PCL printer driver could cause Solo to crash when placing chart templates. This has been corrected.
- The application menus are no longer accessible while the print progress dialog is displayed. This could cause a crash.
- When exporting pages containing white text Solo now encodes the text color correctly.
- Drop shadows on lines now print correctly regardless of their color.
Earlier Fixes
Fixes to Solo 3.1.3 delivered in this Update:
- Solo no longer appears to consume 100% of available CPU cycles when idle or in the background.
- Shift-Pasting PICTs now works correctly.
- Opening a server resident document, by double clicking on it, now correctly starts Solo.
- Font preferences for Page Numbers, Default Character Information and Text Table Settings, contained in Template Files, are now handled correctly when moved from a Mac to a PC or vise versa.
- The default font preferences for Chart labels can now be specified in the Chart preferences dialog box.
- The Imm32.dll is no longer required when running under Windows NT 3.5.1.
- Setting Paragraph defaults when not in edit mode is no longer supported since under some circumstances the settings can be ambiguous.
- Solo now correctly honors the "Collate" setting in the Print Setup Dialog.
Fixes to Solo 3.1.2 delivered in this Update:
- The forward delete key now works in edit mode in text objects in the page editor.
- Problems with opening files containing commas in their path names, and multiple files at once, when first starting the application have been corrected.
- A problem which would cause Solo 3.1.2 on the Macintosh to incorrectly report a checksum error when opening a document created by the Windows version of Solo 3.1.2, has been corrected.
Fixes to Solo 3.1.1 delivered in this Update:
- A problem when placing a Template that contains Enhanced Meta File (EMF) images has been corrected.
- Solo now supports Importing Enhanced/Windows Meta Files (*.EMF and *.WMF).
- Read-Only documents can now be opened.
- Placing Templates with text tables into graphic blocks now scale correctly.
- A problem with the list of available fonts in the Text/Font menu and the Character Dialog has been corrected.
- Fuzzy controls in the Paragraph and Character Dialogs now work correctly.
- A Paragraph dialog problem with text disappearing, when applying settings with the "Changed Only" option turned off, has been corrected.
- Solo will now alert the user if it detects that a document may have become corrupt since last saved. By performing a check sum operation on the Solo document content, Solo can now detect file corruption due to transmission, network or media failures.
- Font related problems with Templates and Named Objects have been corrected.
- Problems with polygons appearing with a black fill in Windows NT 4.0 have been corrected.
- Changing Printer Drivers while Solo is running is now supported. This corrects font list and several font related problems.
- Font related problems with Page Numbers have been corrected.
- Solo now supports more than 100 fonts in Font lists.
- Problems with vertical and horizontal lines causing other objects to draw with a black fill in Windows NT 4.0 have been corrected.
- A potential crash problem with modal dialogs has been corrected.
- The "Solo Manual.pdf" document can now be opened from the "About" dialog and from the "Help" menu in Windows.
- A problem with the page miniature not correctly displaying the content of a page which has become empty has been corrected.
- When printing documents created or last edited on a Mac, Solo is now smarter about breaking a print job into several jobs (due to print record differences between pages.) This will speed up printing under Windows.
Fixes to Solo 3.1.0 delivered in this Update:
- Arcs with arrow heads are now always drawn correctly.
- Lines, arcs and polys with arrow heads can now be selected by lassoing them.
- A display problem with rulers on has been corrected.
- Double-clicking the task bar with an open Solo document no longer causes a crash.
- Flipped text no longer unflips when redrawn.
- A problem with cancelling saving a document when exiting has been corrected.
- Some cross-platfrom line spacing inconsistencies with TrueType fonts other than Times and Helvetcia, have been corrected.
- A problem with pages appearing corrupt when created with a printer driver which does not support print scaling, has been corrected.
- If a printer driver failed to install properly, Solo could crash when placing a data driven chart or when editing a table. This problem has been corrected.
- Saving large Solo documents has been made significantly faster.
- When updating storyboard miniatures in the background, Solo now correctly redraws the storyboard after each miniature has been updated.
( Spell checker improvements )
- Solo's spell checker now handles words longer than 27 characters when choosing to ignore them or add them to the user dictionary. User dictionary words may now be up to 64 characters in length.
- Alerts relating to capitalization, punctuation and other non-spell errors can now be suppressed by unchecking the new "Strict" check box in the spell checker dialog.
- The Standard File dialogs when choosing a Main Dictionary and creating new User Dictionaries now work correctly.
( Windows NT specific fixes )
- Double-clicking on a minimized Solo App icon to switch to Solo, now works on Windows NT.
- Printing line shapes with arrowheads now works correctly under Windows NT 4.0.
- Entering edit mode by clicking on a text object with the Text Tool, and opening the data window by Ctrl-double-clicking on a chart, now works correctly under Windows NT.
- The known printing problems specific to Windows NT 4.0 have been corrected.
- The color of the Fill Color popup is now set correctly when entering a page.
Fixes to Solo 3.0.9 delivered in this Update:
- The All Caps command now works with foreign characters such as umlauts.
- The X1D file extension is no longer required for Solo to recognize a Solo document.
- Ellipses and TradeMark characters can now be printed when using printer fonts and not only TrueType fonts.
- Only outline fonts (TrueType, PostScript) are now supported; removed ".fon" fonts from the Fonts menus within Solo.
- Character spacing (kerning) now works correctly when using PostScript fonts.
- Pasting Enhanced Metafile Picts from other Windows applications now works more reliably.
- Starting the Solo program is now significantly faster. Copying and Pasting in the Storyboard has also been improved.
- A minor display problem in the Category and Scale axis dialogs has been corrected.
- Creating and opening user Template files now works correctly.
- Rotated Arcs, Ovals and Rounded Corner Rectangles now print with improved quality on non-postscript printers.
- The shrink to fit view of large (i.e. more than 200 pages) documents now draws correctly when the view scale is less than 12.5%.
- The font names of fonts used in Solo text objects are now stored in the document for more robust cross platform font compatibility.
- Axis breaks now draw with greater fidelity.
- Printing pages set up with view scales other than 100% now print correctly.
- It is no longer possible to open an already open Solo document across a network.
- To remove this and subsequent versions of Solo, use the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel.
Fixes to Solo 3.0.8 delivered in this Update:
- Justified text now prints correctly.
- Clicking and dragging across justified text now accurately selects the text.
- Pasting data from Excel into a Solo chart data table now functions properly.
- Pasting Solo objects into other Windows applications now works more reliably.
- Performing an Alt-Duplicate command on tables or charts now functions correctly.
- Improved Storyboard view scrolling performance when Windows's Task Bar is in "Auto hide" mode.
- Solo will no longer start up if the display is set to less than the required 256 colors.
- Duplicate "File" menus no longer appear when running on Windows NT.
- Solo dialogs now correctly display 3D look on Windows NT.
- Double clicking Solo documents now works correctly on Windows NT.
- Printing now works more reliably on Windows NT.
- Import/Export menu commands in Storyboard view now work on Windows NT.
- Changing of scale when printing now functions correctly.
- Now fonts map across machines (also crossplatform) on which the same font is available.
- Breakpoint lines in charts now print correctly.
- Unrotated ovals no longer print as polygons on non-PostScript printers.
Fixes to Solo 3.0.7 delivered in this Update:
- Printing accented characters now works correctly.
- Using the Number Format dialog when working with chart templates no longer sets up a possible crash situation.
- If the Helvetica font is unavailable, Solo now selects Arial for improved appearance of chart titles and labels.
- Solo for Windows now correctly handles printing A4 formatted pages to a US Letter printer and vice versa.
- Rotating PICTs at 16-bit screen depths no longer leaves unsightly holes in the rotated image.
If you have questions, contact Axon Technical Support at:
Phone: 203-662-8713
Fax: 203-662-5878
e-mail: support@axoninc.com