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Some thoughts for future updates... - 2005/04/15 11:59 I read about Comic Life today, tried it out and purchased a registration within an hour. What fun! I did run into several issues which may be my lack of comprehension but, if not, I'd love to have them addressed in future updates.

1. It seems that when I select any font other than the default, the outlines are made somewhat irregular during the 'convert to graphics' process. I'd love to be able to select my fonts and choose whether or not to have that "irregularization of the font outlines" performed while still being able to edit the attributes and style attributes in the details.

2. When I double click on some title font the font sheet does launch. I can change the font from there but font name doesn't change in the details panel. If I change the font by using the 'choose' button in the details panel, the font specs do change.

3. I'd like to have a revert button in the Lettering Attributes section of the details drawer when working on titles and sound effects similar to the one in the Style Attributes.

4. In the Outline section of Style Attributes there is a little numeric menu "Count" which is supposed to allow for a choice of number of strokes. It doesn't seem to do anything.

5. When making shadows, I'd love to have the shadow act like the multiply blend mode in Photoshop, rather than being opaque.

6. When I carefully select a panel and the included image and text (either drawing a marquee or shift-clicking), and then try to nudge it using the arrow keys, the image and text move but the panel doesn't. I'd like to be able to nudge the panel as well as the included elements. Note that selecting them all and dragging does work.

7. Export as a TIFF file with adjustable resolutions.

Thanks for a great product! I love it!

Post edited by: Welles, at: 2005/04/15 12:51

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Re:Some thoughts for future updates... - 2005/04/15 13:47 Welles wrote:
I read about Comic Life today, tried it out and purchased a registration within an hour. What fun! I did run into several issues which may be my lack of comprehension but, if not, I'd love to have them addressed in future updates.

1. It seems that when I select any font other than the default, the outlines are made somewhat irregular during the 'convert to graphics' process. I'd love to be able to select my fonts and choose whether or not to have that "irregularization of the font outlines" performed while still being able to edit the attributes and style attributes in the details.

Try upping the point size of the font before converting to graphics and then scaling the lettering down to suit. This should help each letter keep its form. Scaling up from a small font can emphasize rounding errors in the calculations causing the "irregularization" you're seeing.

2. When I double click on some title font the font sheet does launch. I can change the font from there but font name doesn't change in the details panel. If I change the font by using the 'choose' button in the details panel, the font specs do change.

You're right this is an oversight - it should behave in the way you expect and will be fixed.

3. I'd like to have a revert button in the Lettering Attributes section of the details drawer when working on titles and sound effects similar to the one in the Style Attributes.

Interesting idea - unfortunately the way lettering attributes are stored makes it less easy to implement - but we'll have a think about it.

4. In the Outline section of Style Attributes there is a little numeric menu "Count" which is supposed to allow for a choice of number of strokes. It doesn't seem to do anything.

You're right!

This will be fixed in the next update.

5. When making shadows, I'd love to have the shadow act like the multiply blend mode in Photoshop, rather than being opaque.

You can change the transparency of the shadow by editing the shadow color in the Details.

6. When I carefully select a panel and the included image and text (either drawing a marquee or shift-clicking), and then try to nudge it using the arrow keys, the image and text move but the panel doesn't. I'd like to be able to nudge the panel as well as the included elements. Note that selecting them all and dragging does work.

If you've dragged everything on top of a panel then just selecting the panel should move it and everything on it (it sort of acts like a tray). But I find that either way the everything selected moves as it should when using the arrow keys - so I'm not sure what's happening this case?

7. Export as a TIFF file with adjustable resolutions.

We'll be adding adjustable resolutions to the JPEG export option - though perhaps we should change it to a general image export option where you can pick the format and the resolution...

Thanks for the feedback!

Best,

Robert.

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Welles

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Re:Some thoughts for future updates... - 2005/04/16 10:08 Robert wrote:
[Try upping the point size of the font before converting to graphics and then scaling the lettering down to suit. This should help each letter keep its form. Scaling up from a small font can emphasize rounding errors in the calculations causing the "irregularization" you're seeing.

First, thank you for such thoughtful and comprehensive answers, Robert. Well I tried your suggestion and came up with another 'issues.' I do realize that I'm stressing the software's intended usage parameters somewhat. The circumstances are that I was working on an image which I desired to end up as 1024 x 768. Accordingly I started with the A3 page size and the diamond page template. I was trying to get a title to extend across the entire central triangle. I dragged the POW to the triangle and chose to use Cooper Black @ 144pts. and hit Convert to graphics. The graphic was placed but two points on the last letter seemed anchored in place so that resizing it caused serious and unwanted distortion. This did not happen at 96 pt type size.

I've assembled two images which display this anomaly. Image A shows the original flat font and the original graphic placement at 144 pt. Images B and C show what happens when I try to shift/drag to enlarge or shrink the graphic text. http://homepage.mac.com/wellesgoodrich/4SeasonsA.jpg and the second... http://homepage.mac.com/wellesgoodrich/4SeasonsBC.jpg

You can change the transparency of the shadow by editing the shadow color in the Details.

Oops. I missed the obvious. Dang, I seldom use the Apple Color Picker. *

Post edited by: Welles, at: 2005/04/16 10:25

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Robert

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Re:Some thoughts for future updates... - 2005/04/16 10:22 Hi Welles,

This has been confirmed as a bug and I'm working on it right now. Some fonts have control points that butt the right edge and that's revealed a logic glitch.

Hopefully it'll be nailed shortly and I'll post another testfix build.

Best,

Robert.

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