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Steve Fryatt

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Apr 16, 2023, 7:35:04 AM4/16/23
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As part of a project that may become apparent over the coming week, there
have been some updates to PrintPDF made available as test builds over the
past month or so. These have now turned into a release candidate, which is
available to download from my website.

Besides some small cosmetic changes for the Style Guide and an update to the
EUPL 1.2 licence, the new release should not affect normal use at all.

There are some bigger changes to the software hidden behind the scenes,
however, so if any existing users would like to confirm this assumption (or
prove it to be incorrect), a download of the candidate build db9e4ab can be
found below the download of version 1.13 at

https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/printpdf

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Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

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

Chris Newman

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Apr 16, 2023, 2:15:04 PM4/16/23
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In article <mpro.rt7h1300...@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve Fryatt
Thanks for your hard work.

Can I drop the new version(s) over the old to update or do I need to
start from scratch?

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Chris Newman

Steve Fryatt

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Apr 16, 2023, 3:35:03 PM4/16/23
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On 16 Apr, Chris Newman wrote in message
<5a96207f...@waitrose.com>:

> Thanks for your hard work.

I can't take much of the credit for the work on this one! I'm releasing the
update, but most of the effort came from the person who needed the new
functionality...

> Can I drop the new version(s) over the old to update or do I need to start
> from scratch?

As it's a test build, I'd be inclined to run it alongside your current
version. The settings are all stored in Choices, so you should be able to
unpack the application to somewhere temporary and run it from there. That
way, you can get back to the normal version again just by double-clicking on
that one instead (or re-booting).

Assuming things go to plan and no-one finds any issues, 1.20 is likely to be
out in time for some event that's happening in Bradford next weekend. That
could just be dropped on the old, but as no settings are inside the app, my
preferred approach would be to move/rename the old version and drop the new
into its place. That way, you don't have any issues with orphaned files or
things falling foul of the Filer's newer option.

Chris Newman

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Apr 17, 2023, 7:23:22 AM4/17/23
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In article <mpro.rt832x03...@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve Fryatt
Thanks Steve. trialling the test version on Pi4 and RiscPC. I'll see what
happens.

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Chris Newman
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