Hello again, HylaFAX and Macintosh users!
I have finally, after about a year (maybe more, it's been so
long I've forgotten), completed most of the work on a new
release of MacFlex. This release has quite a few new features,
plus lots and lots of bug fixes. I've done a good bit
of testing on this release, and I think it should be quite a
bit more stable on folks machines.
New features:
* the FAX Builder lets you "build" a FAX from multiple
print jobs
* a FAX viewer that lets you view and print FAXes
received via HylaFAX (it even supports rotation)
* new better looking U/I, courtesy of a rewrite in PowerPlant
* notification of successful sending of FAX (the most
requested new feature)
Bug fixes:
* preference file problems (I think I REALLY got 'em this time)
* cover sheet problems (I tested several that people sent me)
* crashes when printing or imaging FAXes
* problems updating the queue status
This release is not ABSOLUTELY perfect, but I've fixed all the
problems that I can successfully reproduce.
I have tested it on several machines, including a PowerMac 7500, a
PowerMac 7200, and a Quadra 630, using applications like
MS Word 5.1a, MS Word 6.0.1, MS Excel, Netscape Navigator 2.02,
the Finder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Graphic Converter, and
SimpleText. Still, I'd like to hear about any problems folks
have. Several of the programs produce log files, and if you run
into a problem, please send me anything you find there.
This beta release can be found at:
http://www.eats.com/MacFlex/
or
ftp://ftp.eats.com/pub/MacFlex-15b1.sea.hqx
Thanks to all who have tried MacFlex, and I hope that this
release fixes many of your problems. After fixing this
round of bug fixes, it will probably be a while before I
add more features; I'm simply too busy at my real job. But
I do intend to iron out the bugs in this release so that
people have a reliable HylaFAX client on the Mac.
Rob Newberry
rob@eats.com
Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)