XV4 64-bit build 22722 of 09-may-2021
Online documentation for the Q++Studio diary and calendar automation and publishing software, the choice of the world's foremost diary and calendar publishers, since 1999, to automate the typesetting of their diaries and calendars, reliably and efficiently, using the industry-standard QuarkXPress and InDesign formats.
May 10, 2021 (build 22722)
New
•Added the possibility of specifying default bleed and slugs document values to new scripts in the InDesign preferences.
Improved
•The Output button of the diary generation status dialog is now focused at the end of diary generation, so that you can simply press the ENTER key to open the output file.
•Relaxed the conditions under which message 176075 is issued. This message is now only issued if the GenTokens Options related to that token include the formatting or Xtags paragraph line endings.
•Added and documented support for special character markers that are specific to InDesign.
•Overhaul of the stand-alone saras user interface as well as important performance gains when accessing files across a network.
•Third release of the version of Q++Studio with InDesign support.
Fixed
•The box delete minicalendar date formatting was not working as specified in the documentation (2-may-2021).
April 30, 2021 (build 22698)
New
•Added a new diary generation options to specify how the bleed and slugs document values of InDesign output files are set.
•Q++Studio supports the latest version of QuarkXPress 2020 (version 16.3.2).
Improved
•Second release of the version of Q++Studio with InDesign support.
Fixed
•The use of SARAs to insert a PDF was not fully implemented; the page number would always be 1, and the bounding box would always be the media box.
March 31, 2021 (build 22620)
New
•Added the new Open PDF files with preferences setting to work around the Windows 10 bug which resets the Edge web browser as the software launched, when double-clicking on a PDF file, rather than accept any attempt at using Adobe Acrobat to open PDF files.
•Added the new scale to fill option to the conversion of a textbox to a picture box in macros results and saras results, when using QuarkXPress 2019, and above, or InDesign.
•Initial release of the version of Q++Studio with InDesign support.
Improved
•The title and label of the OK button of all the open and save file dialogs have been reviewed and they are now more descriptive and appropriate to each case where they are used.
•The new message 185555 warns you of spurious modifiers in a holiday token, usually due to an incorrectly formed duration modifier.
•The full version number of QuarkXPress or InDesign used in diary generation is now being logged.
•The list of saras now displays the index of each sara in the currently displayed sara set. This is useful, particularly when dealing with very large sara sets, when addressing messages such as messages 110016 and 181805 which refer to a specific sara index.
Fixed
•Since February 2020, default international and diary grid preferences would not be applied to newly created script lines, once a script was saved once (Brunnen, 30-mar-2021).
•Some minor attributes would not be copied when copying a script from within the Scripts Explorer (Alpha Edition, 17-mar-2021).
February 28, 2021 (build 22529)
New
•Q++Studio supports the latest version of QuarkXPress 2020 (version 16.3).
•Q++Studio supports the latest version of QuarkXPress 2019 (version 15.2.5).
•Q++Studio supports the latest version of InDesign 2021 (version 16.1).
Improved
•Added a popup menu to the xml script viewer and the xml scripts editor, to conveniently copy any of the identifiers of the current node, to the search bar, to find all similar script lines, or script line properties or even options of a specific value, and then easily access any of them.
•Added the design-time message 185250 to warn you if if the saras property associated with a diary grid line or the book format script line refers to a saraset which has been deleted.
Fixed
•Fixed a bug whereby some of the scanning messages of QuarkXPress Pages and InDesignPages would not be issued, if the only difference between the date-time of the last scan, and the date-time of the current file on disk, was due to an hour summer versus winter time difference (23-feb-2021).
•Fixed some UI glitches whereby some of the spin value controls of the macros resulting text style actions and SARAs were displaying as active, even when deactivated (02-feb-2021).
January 31, 2021 (build 22478)
New
•Added a new native formatting method of displaying 23/30 and 24/31 combined dates in minicalendars, which is supported by both QuarkXPress and InDesign.
•The Q++Studio desktop documentation has been migrated from the legacy CHM format (last updated by Microsoft in 1998) to the eWriter format, a single-file embedded version of the WebHelp format with its full table of contents and user interface.
Improved
•The Log Viewer now remains active even when another modal dialog is being displayed (for example, during diary generation, it is now possible to refresh the log as displayed in the Log Viewer).
•The new message 185185 now informs you if there is a problem with the zip file containing the related QuarkXPress, InDesign and PDF files, and places that zip file in a folder for you to open manually at the end of script importation.
•The new message 185180 now alerts you if the file selected during script importation is not a proper exported migration file.
•The database of worldwide public holidays that is included in Q++Studio has been extended to cover the following Indian States and Union Territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura. The database of worldwide public holidays that is included in Q++Studio now covers all 28 States and 8 Union Territories of India.
Fixed
•The color macros would be ignored when used as part of the display settings for minicalendar week numbers,minicalendar weekdays, or minicalendar week bands (Lecas, 26-jan-2021).
•The Clear All Settings response option to message 175365 would only partially clear settings, and these settings would only be fully cleared when the script was saved (JMata, 26-jan-2021).
•The script exportation results log would be blank if script exportation was performed more than once in a session (20-jan-2021).
•Fixed a bug in the enumeration of installed fonts for screen fonts that were accessible by InDesign, but not by QuarkXPress (13-jan-2021).
•If QuarkXPress or InDesign was open before Q++Studio was launched, then the rescan current template button and menu would be de-activated until you tried to generate for the first time (JMata, 11-jan-2021).
•Fixed a bug in the calculation of recurring holidays based on the Bhutanese, Burmese, Mongolian and Tibetan lunar calendars, which would begin at the very end of December, and last for many days, into January. Concretely, this only applied to some of the public holidays of the Indian state of Sikkim (Tesla, 01-jan-2021).
Previous Years
See also: release notes 1999-2020.
Topic 151700, last updated on 07-May-2021
