The Windows 7 beta has been available for a couple of months now. We’re not expecting many users to be using this, as it’s still in the early beta stages, but for those who are, one issue with PageFour has been identified. It relates to changing the location of PageFour pages, something most users probably never do. The issue makes this impossible on Windows 7, and has a knock on effect on the Options Dialog as a whole, and probably on the Export Notebooks feature.

When PageFour is run with its default settings, there should not be any problems. We’ll be testing under Windows 7 shortly, but we’re fairly sure we know what the problem is and that it will not be difficult to fix. If anyone encounters any other issues with Windows 7, please get in touch.

edit: This issue has only been reported by a single user. The current version of PageFour runs very well on Windows 7.

As many users have noticed, this blog has not been updated in some time. This does not mean that development has stopped on PageFour, only that over the past year I got side tracked with other projects. A lot of work is planned for PageFour over the next couple of months, and I’ll be reporting on that work here as it’s completed.

The beta version that many users have already downloaded has recently been finalised into a release version (1.70), with appropriate documentation. Full details can be found in the post below. The reason this version was released as is, is that I wanted to make a stable version containing the Word DOCX format changes available before any other changes are made with the upcoming release.

Many of the new features planned for the next release are based on user feedback, and comments left on previous posts on this blog.

Version 1.70 was released today. This is the release version of the previous beta (1.67), and contains only those new features that were already in the beta version. They include:

• Support for the MS Word DOCX format when importing documents.
• Changes to the Import Dialog so that a folder within a Notebook can now be selected as the import destination, and the ability to quickly paste the import location into the Import dialog rather than navigating the file tree.

Two major bugs have also been fixed in this version, as well as many minor bugs reported by users. The major bugs are: software crashes when selecting text that was made up of Chinese or Japanese characters, and in a small number of cases the failure of the Import Dialog to open. These issues are now resolved.

The PageFour license changes mentioned some time ago are also now in effect. These changes allow a single PageFour license to work in one of two ways: either a single PC with multiple users, or multiple PCs with a single user, and means that users working on more than a single PC do not now need to purchase a second license if the software is for their own use.

The latest version can be downloaded from the download page.