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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on November 29, 2011 at 3:35pm

November 29, 2011 - KK29p

We posted a new version of RPS 3D PDF with these fixes:

Fixed the display of the Lower Left logo image on the preview page
Added a warning to the install, if a license is not eligible for the new version

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on December 14, 2011 at 1:34pm

December 14, 2011 - KL14p

We posted a new version of RPS 3D PDF with this fix:

Fixed the Preview button to not throw an error message when Use Camera Constraints was set.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on December 16, 2011 at 2:43pm

December 16, 2011 - KL16p

We posted a new version of RPS 3D PDF with these fixes:

Fixed a regression in material mapping in the KL14 version, no materials or textures were being applied.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on January 3, 2012 at 5:21pm

New version posted. LA03 - January 3, 2012

In this version, we:

Added a fix for missing faces in 3D PDF for some models

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 10, 2012 at 4:20pm

New version posted. LB103 - February 10, 2012

In this version, we:

Fixed a 3D Data Parsing error message that was appearing for Acrobat Reader 10.1.2 when the PDF page was opened in Acrobat Reader. The PDF file still opened and worked properly, but the error message indicated that there was a problem with it.

With regards to the Error Message that we were seeing, I received this email from an Acrobat representative:

"I could reproduce the problem at my end and have reported the same to the engineering team who will now be working on it.

We shall hopefully have the issue resolved with future updates."

So perhaps they will be able to fix it on their end soon, so that the error message will not display for older PDFs. Otherwise, the PDFs will have to be remade with this new version.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 16, 2012 at 1:32pm

February 16, 2012 - LB16p

We posted a new version of RPS 3D PDF with these fixes:

We were not properly processing 24 bit jpeg textures
We were not getting the correct normals for some surfaces.
improved processing speed

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 17, 2012 at 10:41am

February 17, 2012 - LB17p

We posted a new version of RPS 3D PDF with this fix:

Fixed regression in U3D compression quality

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 21, 2012 at 4:38pm

New version posted. February 21, 2012 - LB21p

In this version, we:

Allow the U3D image area to be taller, stop restricting it to the aspect ration of the background image.
Allow Trailer text to be centered again.
Move the File Lights settings to the the Options tab, to make their access easier.
Fixed a bug when dynamically resizing the Model Image area when using metric units.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 23, 2012 at 3:54pm

New version posted. March 23, 2012 - LC23p

Fixed a problem where we were not showing both sides of faces in groups, where the group material was being used for the faces.
Stopped adding watermarks to background images while in Trial version
Fixed spacing for large text below the U3D image.
Added a box to specify the PDF Producer field for the PDF file properties.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 26, 2012 at 3:21pm

New version posted. March 26, 2012 - LC26p

In this version we:

Fixed text spacing for pages where a title was specified, when no Logo Image was selected.
Fixed Initial Zoom Factor setting on PDF Properties option tab
Added -1 as an option for the Zoom Factor to apply "Fit in Window" to the Page. This can have a slightly different effect that simply setting the Zoom Factor to 100%.
Fixed Display Fullscreen on PDF Properties option tab

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 26, 2012 at 10:20am

New version posted. July 26, 2012 - LG26p

This version should be treated as a beta release of the new features below.

If you are interested in trying the new features, please download and try this release and let us know if they work properly for you

In this version, we:

Started using Rich Text boxes to replace the Heading, Intro, Body and Trailer text sections, so that more text fonts, colors, justification and styles could be used for the PDF files. The text is edited in a Wordpad type window, so that you can create more complex PDF files. Only text is returned from the editor at this time. Images and other objects will be ignored.
Added support for the SketchUp Section Plane. We will apply the first visible section plane to the 3D Model in the PDF file.
Allow users to the set the Application field for the PDF document properties.
Add an Option Tab for Project Defaults, which will now be used as a settings template for new models. Other projects settings can still be loaded using the Load Styles button.