This is a great site Dominic.
I can't wait to test the new MAC version. I am starting to see the power behind this program.

Steve - PSI

I have been a Mac user since the 1st version of OS9. Before that I thought MAC's sucked, now when I go back to use Windows I can really see the diff like night and day.

Steve

You guys will have lots of people crossing over during the next few years , thanks to Vista.

Not happy with the way it opens in slide presentation mode.
Logo upload not functioning.
Uploaded and could not find it as part of my uploaded PDF's other than when clicking the email link.
As far as the PDF goes I liked it opening with bookmarks on the left side as a table of contents,
Now some people may not realise you can click on them to open them.
Also report is still spelled wrong in the e-mail link to client.repoort

Hi Bob,

Thanks for pointing some of these things out. The 'repoort' mis-spelling is actually not in the program at all. It's on a totally different program that resides on the server, it won't matter which version of the program you are running.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say you uploaded it and could not find it. When you upload a report to the upload service it will appear under your account under the Inspection Reports link on the left hand side.


I see the issue with the slide presentation mode. I forgot to include a file with the new beta. I'm correcting that now and will check that out and will upload a new version in a few minutes. I'll check out the logo issue too. I made quite a few improvements trying to optimize the program for people running on 256 megs of ram and might have overdone it.

Dominic

By the way, I'd really like to know how the Batch Photo Add works for those of you who have old computers, or not much ram, or have newer computers but were taking high resolution photos. The reports really won't visually look any better with anything above 2 megapixels, but some people take larger photos obviously. Let me know how it goes.

On my dual core laptop with 2 gigs of ram, I just loaded 207 photos with each being 1.5 to 2 megabytes.
It took 1 minute, 27 seconds to load them all. Not bad!

Hi Mark,

Unfortunately I did not get to most of the items that were on your list. The main focus was the items that I have listed above. I ended up spending the entire past week rewriting the Bulk Add Photos as there were quite a few people having problems using it if they have a very low amount of ram on their computer and were trying to import too many photos. Now that I have that out of the way I can spend the next couple of days getting to the other items on my 4 page list, like the ones you're talking about.

The bullet option was remove while I try to come up with a good bullet. I have it working with an * but I need to find a bullet which is basically a character in a font that both windows and mac computers have.

I did redo the problems that low resolution caused on the photo page to move the 2 check boxes to their own line but it made the photo so small you could barely see it. So I moved it back while I try to figure out how exactly to fit so much information onto the screen when you're running at 800x600.

For the new open/save template. When you click open template, you can't change the name or description, they are set to read only. The information is meant to be entered when you are saving a template, and then it will appear the next time you go to open a template. Here's an example for when you're saving.

FileName: Timpani Residential Con
Template Name: Timpani Residential Template for Condos
Description: This template is setup specifically to handle condos. Multiple sections have been removed that are considered common areas. The pool section of the report was removed, as well as the roof. Certain comments were added to reflect condo associations.

Note that the file name and template name COULD and probably would be the exact same for most people on Windows. Unfortunately on a mac, you can't have really long file names (like windows used to be limited as well). Because of this I created a filename field which is going to be the actual file name, and a template name field which is the name of the template that will show at the top of the program when you open it, as well as help you determing which template it is.

Once you have entered this info on the save template, you will see it on the open template. If you sent your template to another person, they would also see the info, which would be useful to them (gives them an idea of what you were thinking).

Does that make sense?

Yes I did the border format checkbox but have wait to see how it looks in a report.  Thanks for doing all of this.

Questions for Dominic and other users on adding pointing objects to photos and changing comments.

After adding several elements there doesn't seem to be a way to delet individual pieces without undoing them all and starting over. Is this correct?

Is there a way to adjust the line thickness on boxes and circles?

Is there a way to make ovals instead of just circles?

Is there a way to move the circle. box around after creation?

It's going to take a fair amount of time to change the comments to those I like to use. I prefer complete sentences and more expansive comments.

Not a complaint but how are the current users dealing with this.

BTW-I have purchased the product and have downloaded 2.5.7

That was quick :-)

Maybe I wasn't clear on photo object editing.

If I for example add a circle, some descriptive text and an Arrow and then decide I don't need the circle, I have undo until they are all gone and start over. Is this correct?

The lines for the circle and boxes seemed way to thick for my taste. Perhaps a popup palet or right click option that would allow adjustment.

I'm sure I will have more questions as I get used to it but I sure appreciate you quick response and helpfulness.