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Posted by Cassius
Dec 15, 2007 at 03:17 AM
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>I think your prognoses about NoteMap’s demise are dead wrong. It simply would make no
>sense to build more links to NoteMap into the CaseSoft Division’s mainstay product,
>CaseMap, if they intended to phase out development.
>
>What is the case is that the
>company has limited interest in selling to non-lawyers, or at least to users outside
>the legal profession. Thus they want to force the buyer to contact the sales rep. so
>they can sell more products, particularly their excellent but expensive extended
>support services.
>
>As to the bug, two possibilies. One, I’m not sure any bug can be
>known to be easy to fix in advance. Maybe a programmer can comment. Two, again the legal
>profession thing. If you are not an attorney or a paralegal and don’t have a support
>account with the CaseSoft Division, they may not care about your opinions. What did
>they say when you reported the bug? Even though my account with them has expired, I get
>periodic e-mails asking if I need any assistance. If I reported the bug, I would at
>least get an answer.
Well, when I reported the bug, I received NO answer. As far as the WORD conversion bug, well, at one time I did a lot of programming. The easy fix can’t take more than
1) removing the current, faulty “conversion from rtf to doc” code
2) replacing this code with a duplicate of the “save as rtf” code followed by code that tells Word to open the rtf export file.
Word will then properly open and convert the rtf file.
Programming can’t get much easier than that.
-c
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 15, 2007 at 04:11 AM
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Am I imagining it, or do posts continually disappear and reappear in this thread?
We’ve had a lot of cross-references in different threads. I’ve had trouble keeping them straight. Perhaps you are having the same difficulty, leading to the sense that posts are doing odd things. Or maybe they are doing odd things.
Steve Z.
Posted by DaXiong
Dec 18, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Yeah, I’ve thought so too.
I think you’re right about an automatic 4 position indent. My problem is this: With 4 or 5 levels of outline, I end up being indented almost half the page. If I could set it to 2 (or even 3) it would help a lot.
Like I said, I communicate for a living, and would love to just print from Inspiration, but find the lack of control over format & printing frustrating. I know I can transfer to Word, but that’s a workaround, not really a solution.
Anyways, I see this topic has split into 2 - the original about single-pane outliners, and a new branch about NoteMap ... will let NoteMap continue.
Posted by David Dunham
Dec 19, 2007 at 04:24 AM
DaXiong wrote:
>I think you’re right about an automatic 4 position
>indent. My problem is this: With 4 or 5 levels of outline, I end up being indented almost
>half the page. If I could set it to 2 (or even 3) it would help a lot.
I must be missing something, or other outliners are different from mine. Opal uses 16 pixels per outline level. The 5th level is thus indented only 64 pixels from the 1st level. That’s less than 10% of any screen these days.
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Dec 20, 2007 at 02:22 AM
If you have or would write a clear and complete description of the bug, I’ll see if I can get an answer from them. For myself, I have never been able to get a good one-click conversion to Word from _any_ non-Microsoft program. Probably the way | use styles in Word.
Cassius wrote:
>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>>I think your prognoses about NoteMap’s demise are dead
>wrong. It simply would make no
>>sense to build more links to NoteMap into the CaseSoft
>Division’s mainstay product,
>>CaseMap, if they intended to phase out
>development.
>>
>>What is the case is that the
>>company has limited interest in
>selling to non-lawyers, or at least to users outside
>>the legal profession. Thus
>they want to force the buyer to contact the sales rep. so
>>they can sell more products,
>particularly their excellent but expensive extended
>>support services.
>>
>>As to
>the bug, two possibilies. One, I’m not sure any bug can be
>>known to be easy to fix in
>advance. Maybe a programmer can comment. Two, again the legal
>>profession thing. If
>you are not an attorney or a paralegal and don’t have a support
>>account with the
>CaseSoft Division, they may not care about your opinions. What did
>>they say when you
>reported the bug? Even though my account with them has expired, I get
>>periodic
>e-mails asking if I need any assistance. If I reported the bug, I would at
>>least get an
>answer.
>
>Well, when I reported the bug, I received NO answer. As far as the WORD
>conversion bug, well, at one time I did a lot of programming. The easy fix can’t take
>more than
>
>1) removing the current, faulty “conversion from rtf to doc” code
>2)
>replacing this code with a duplicate of the “save as rtf” code followed by code that
>tells Word to open the rtf export file.
>
>Word will then properly open and convert the
>rtf file.
>
>Programming can’t get much easier than that.
>
>-c