Program Fixes for Paint Shop Pro Studio 1.01
We’ve made a number of significant fixes in Paint Shop Pro
Studio 1.01 to address issues reported to us by our customers. The list below
highlights the more significant fixes addressed.
Fixes and Issues Addressed
- If Flash Player 7 or later was not installed, a
non-specific error message appeared where a more specific message detailing the
needed version should have appeared.
- During installation, users specifying a Paint Shop Pro
Studio resource file folder other than the default "My PSP Files"
folder were reporting that the resources were still installing in the default
folder and not their custom location.
- The Fine Leather preview pane was not showing an
accurate representation until the Proof button was clicked.
- The Tiles effect was sometimes dropping lines between
tiles, and displaying a noticeable difference between the preview and the
resulting image.
- Due to an issue with the automation OLE server in
Microsoft Access 2003, integration with Microsoft Access wasn’t always work
correctly. Additionally, when inserting a Paint Shop Pro Studio object into a
Microsoft Word document, Paint Shop Pro Studio was closing automatically if no
other document was open.
- Vector objects with lines 2 pixels thick (and wider)
were displaying with an extra pixel.
- The Quick Guides in the Learning Center palette were
presented in alphabetical order, but are now presented in a work-flow order.
Additionally, a Quick Guide describing basic print layout usage was added.
- An erroneous, abbreviated error message sometimes
appeared when using the Hue/Saturation/Lightness dialog on a Windows ME
computer.
- Changing the filename case of some resources (such as
Picture Tubes) wasn't being reflected in the visual resource pickers.
- Changing a Gradient name via the Resource Manager
dialog modified the gradient's thumbnail appearance in the drop-list.
- EXIF data for Raw images from the same camera was
varying depending on the presence of the image thumbnail.
- When using the Image Browser, navigating folders with
the arrow keys sometimes caused focus to jump to other folders.
- In Windows Explorer, right-clicking an image file and
attempting to open it with Paint Shop Pro Studio was not working.
- In Windows Explorer, right-clicking a folder to
"Browse with Paint Shop Pro Studio" wasn't functioning properly.
- The Raw Camera Data dialog's zoom presets drop-list was
improperly displaying the zooming options.
- When in Tabbed Documents mode, selecting images for
Print Layout via the Image Browser wasn't displaying the image thumbnails.
- After dragging and dropping another image into the
current image, attempting to view Layer Properties was causing Paint Shop Pro
Studio to crash.
- Clipboard contents pasted into a selection were not
conforming to the shape of the selection.
- A Help topic associated with placing text along a
vector path mistakenly referred to a button labeled "OK" instead of
"Apply."
- A Help topic associated with copying resources via the
Resource Manager dialog needed additional information.
- A Help topic associated with the auto-hide feature for
palettes needed additional information.
- Users of the Logitech Track Man mouse were reporting
slowdowns when in Paint Shop Pro Studio.
- During installation, attempting to change the location
of user data folders wasn't working properly.
- In the Layers palette, scanned images opened into Paint
Shop Pro Studio were not being labeled as the "Background" layer.
- A few dialogs in
the application still referred to the Layers palette as the Layer palette.
- The Alt key shortcuts listed in the Layers menu and the
Layers context menu did not match.
- When the Layers palette was set to auto-hide, and then
a new layer was created, the palette was hiding improperly.
- The Layers palette icon used to indicate a layer's lock
status was difficult to see.
- Load/Save Selections and Masks wasn't allowing access
to the File Locations button when there were no resources in the current
folder.
- Some models of cordless pointing devices were having
difficulty with slow mouse movements in Paint Shop Pro Studio.
- In the Image Browser, dragging an image onto an already
populated folder did not open the folder.
- After adjusting a layer's opacity and then selecting
another tool, the cursor was disappearing.
- When using the Anti-alias option with the Freehand
Selection tool, the resulting selection did not appear anti-aliased.
- After executing a Select All command, right-clicking to
deselect was not functioning properly.
- When using the Circle or Ellipse selection type without
the Anti-alias option checked, the selection was failing.
- Attempting to move an empty (transparent) selection was
prompting an error message to appear.
- When the Windows screen settings were set to use the
largest font option, the bottom of the application registration form was being
cut off.
- A Help topic link associated with Aligning and Spacing
Text on Object Paths was opening a popup window, not another Help topic.
- While using a vector tool with the foreground property
set to Transparent, subsequent attempts to apply paint in the Mixer palette were
failing.
- Use of the Mesh Warp tool was leaving holes in the
image where none existed in the previous Paint Shop Pro Studio version.
- When using the Mesh Warp tool, the edges of some warped
images appear to change after applying the modifications.
- While using the Warp brush tool, the Apply and Cancel
buttons were grayed out under certain conditions.
- While using the Clone tool, the X marking the source
position wasn't appearing during clicks and drags.
- While using the Raster Deform tool to proportionally resize
a layer, occasionally the proportion was being distorted depending on cursor
position.
- Raster paint brush presets incorporating certain
settings were causing the application to lock up.
- Saving a brush preset with the name "Last
Used" was prompting an error message.
- Under specific settings, Paint Brush strokes over
undone strokes were occasionally causing the undone strokes to reappear on the
canvas.
- Straight vector lines drawn with anti-alias on and
having an even-numbered width setting didn't look as good as expected.
- Editing some of the vector shapes and then closing the
document occasionally caused Paint Shop Pro Studio to crash.
- When docking was turned off, the Layers palette was
occasionally hidden behind the Materials palette.
- Under certain conditions, Materials palette swatch
thumbnails set to appear at small or medium sizes were not fully visible in the
palette.
- The response time for docking and undocking palettes
appeared to slow down after several docks/undocks.
- When resizing the main application window such that the
Tools toolbar was partially hidden, the icon indicating the additional tools
was being clipped.
- When clicking on the Paint Shop Pro Studio main window
to reactivate the application, clicking over a docked palette/toolbar would
undock the palette/toolbar.
- After clicking the Layers palette to give it focus,
subsequently clicking another palette would not always give that palette focus.
- After exiting Print Layout, multiple images that had
been minimized in the main window were moving upward such that the title bars
were overlapping.
- In the Objects menu and the vector-related context
menus, command name capitalization was not consistent.
- Under certain conditions, images minimized in the
workspace were sometimes hiding below the Status bar.
- Setting a Logitech optical mouse scroll wheel to
execute a double-click when pressed was not working consistently in the
application.
- The ability to scroll through options in drop-lists by
using the mouse wheel or the arrow keys was not functioning properly.
- Some Windows 98 users were reporting that preset lists
were appearing at their smallest size for no know reason.