#Pinnacle Alladin
Wayne,
Hi! Haven't seen you around in awhile!
>> The drawbacks come down to the CG. It is a special version of
>> Inscriber. It can't do roll or crawls.
Not until the next release, but then they'll become available, I'm told.
>> Fonts have to be in the inscriber format. (There is a module to
>> convert TT and PS to inscriber formats. No decorative font support,
>> though).
Whaddaya mean by "decorative font support?"
>> Also, text placement and sizing is by numeric requesters rather than
>> mouse drag and stretch.
Actually, you CAN do a form of mouse drag. Holding down <CTRL> and dragging on
a line of text will move it. If TAB is selected in the constraints menu, it
will only move up and down; else you can move it freely about the page. If you
bring up the TYPE SPECS menu, place the mouse pointer into any of the numeric
requesters, then click and drag up or down, the numbers will change rapidly.
If you're in the text size boxes, you'll see the brackets around the text
change in size to preview the text's eventual size. Click on Apply to snap the
text to the new size.
>> And the requesters come up on top of the title layout area so you have
>> to render and look at the progam out to tell if you are "there" yet.
Though you CAN move the requesters up or down so you can see the text
underneath.
>> Also, I'm told (even buy Pinnacle dealers and reps) the manual sucks.
That's because it's the manual for an early release of software, so it's very
incomplete. They tell me it's being rewritten.
Pete