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    From John Crane@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 23 22:03:24 2024
    Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

    There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
    few years now since the last update.

    The website listed on plingstore:
    www.impression-x.co.uk

    seems to just be a holding page

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    John Crane

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  • From Adrian Crafer@21:1/5 to John Crane on Tue Jan 23 23:08:08 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    John Crane <[email protected]> wrote:


    Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

    There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
    few years now since the last update.

    The website listed on plingstore:
    www.impression-x.co.uk

    seems to just be a holding page

    I believe ImpressionX is now owned by ROD so asking Andrew Rawnsley or
    Richard Brown might get an answer. I believe the holding page reflects the
    exit of the recent maintainer.
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    [email protected]

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  • From John McCartney@21:1/5 to John Crane on Wed Jan 24 16:31:15 2024
    On 23/01/2024 22:03, John Crane wrote:
    Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

    There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
    few years now since the last update.

    The website listed on plingstore:
    www.impression-x.co.uk

    seems to just be a holding page

    I have it on good authority that there's unlikely to be any updates in
    the short term.

    Notwithstanding that, Impression remains my desktop publisher of choice.

    John

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  • From John Crane@21:1/5 to John McCartney on Wed Jan 24 17:58:09 2024
    In message <uore0j$1sfni$[email protected]>
    John McCartney <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 23/01/2024 22:03, John Crane wrote:
    Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

    There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
    few years now since the last update.

    The website listed on plingstore:
    www.impression-x.co.uk

    seems to just be a holding page

    I have it on good authority that there's unlikely to be any updates in
    the short term.

    Notwithstanding that, Impression remains my desktop publisher of choice.

    John

    Ah ok.

    Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
    I'll just stick with that.

    There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

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    John Crane

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Adrian Crafer on Tue Jan 23 23:27:35 2024
    On 23 Jan, Adrian Crafer wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    I believe the holding page reflects the exit of the recent maintainer.

    There has never been anything on the Impression-X site to the best of my knowledge, so I wouldn't read too much into its absence.

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    Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From Stuart@21:1/5 to John Crane on Wed Jan 24 19:30:05 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John Crane <[email protected]> wrote:

    Ah ok.

    Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
    I'll just stick with that.

    There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

    Runs very nicely here on my Pi using Aemulor

    --
    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
    sending tools across the world
    http://www.twam.co.uk/

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  • From John Crane@21:1/5 to Stuart on Thu Jan 25 20:52:52 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    John Crane <[email protected]> wrote:

    Ah ok.

    Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
    I'll just stick with that.

    There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

    Runs very nicely here on my Pi using Aemulor

    I can also run the older version on My RO5 machine with aemulor.

    I would be happier parting with �60 for 'X' if things were still being developed and could see some sort of progress.

    Having said that I appreciate it's not an easy job to sort and I know
    there's only so much development time to go around so to speak.

    It's great that so much stuff is still being progressed in our RISC OS
    world anyway.

    I don't really use Impression much anyway, was just curious as to how
    things were going

    Thanks all

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    John Crane

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  • From Alan Griffin@21:1/5 to John Crane on Fri Jan 26 11:30:04 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John Crane <[email protected]> wrote:

    Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

    There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been
    a few years now since the last update.

    I've used Impression since it first came out.

    The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
    12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
    cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
    a pain.

    Richard Keefe said (in 2020) he had found out why, and it would be
    corrected in the next version. But we haven't had the next version.

    Alan Griffin

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  • From Stuart@21:1/5 to John Crane on Fri Jan 26 13:00:04 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John Crane <[email protected]> wrote:
    I would be happier parting with �60 for 'X' if things were still being developed and could see some sort of progress.

    I don't use it much either (X), the last time I used it was to produce the manual for !Openvector. However, I think it is unlikely to progress any
    further without funding, so I was happy to contribute.

    --
    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
    sending tools across the world
    http://www.twam.co.uk/

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  • From John McCartney@21:1/5 to Alan Griffin on Fri Jan 26 15:31:37 2024
    On 26/01/2024 11:30, Alan Griffin wrote:

    The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
    12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
    cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
    a pain.
    I've just saved a document with a 14-character name and it was fine.
    Using ImpressionX v.5.799 Dev on RISC OS 5.29.
    John

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  • From John McCartney@21:1/5 to Dave on Fri Jan 26 20:08:52 2024
    On 26/01/2024 19:40, Dave wrote:
    I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of
    the UI of ImpressionX ?
    The interface is just the same as earlier versions of Impression apart
    from an icon on the toolbar for easy access to editing and creating new colours. There's also a new option in the print dialogue for typesetting options.
    In essence it's just like Publisher Plus.
    John

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to John McCartney on Fri Jan 26 19:40:54 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John McCartney <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 26/01/2024 11:30, Alan Griffin wrote:

    The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
    12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
    cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
    a pain.
    I've just saved a document with a 14-character name and it was fine.
    Using ImpressionX v.5.799 Dev on RISC OS 5.29.
    John

    Interesting discussion...

    SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and continues to do so.
    She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)

    I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of the UI
    of ImpressionX ?

    Are there?

    Thanks
    Dave


    I also used to use Imp Publisher a lot back in the days for business
    paperwork, but when OvPro arrived, I manually converted(1) all my
    Impression paperwork/templates into Ov Pro and I've not used Publisher
    since, except to view the occasional old document.

    Dave

    Nb.1 This was back in the days before OvPro could auto load Impression
    files.

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Dave on Fri Jan 26 20:22:40 2024
    On 26 Jan 2024 as I do recall,
    Dave wrote:

    SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and continues to do so.
    She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)

    I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of the UI
    of ImpressionX ?

    As I understand it there were no visiblechanges to the user interface of ImpressionX - the work being done was all under the bonnet, as it were.

    --
    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

    Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling goes away.

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Fri Jan 26 21:18:26 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 26 Jan 2024 as I do recall,
    Dave wrote:

    SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and continues to do so.
    She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)
    I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of
    the UI of ImpressionX ?

    As I understand it there were no visible changes to the user interface of ImpressionX - the work being done was all under the bonnet, as it were.

    Thanks Harriet, I'll pass that on to her.

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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