Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
few years now since the last update.

The website listed on plingstore:
www.impression-x.co.uk

seems to just be a holding page

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John Crane

In message <67296f275b.john@john.johnandtina.force9.co.uk>
John Crane <john@johnandtina.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

> There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
> few years now since the last update.

> The website listed on plingstore:
> www.impression-x.co.uk

> seems to just be a holding page

I believe ImpressionX is now owned by ROD so asking Andrew Rawnsley or
Richard Brown might get an answer. I believe the holding page reflects the
exit of the recent maintainer.
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acrafer@orpheusmail.co.uk

On 23/01/2024 22:03, John Crane wrote:
> Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?
>
> There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
> few years now since the last update.
>
> The website listed on plingstore:
> www.impression-x.co.uk
>
> seems to just be a holding page

I have it on good authority that there's unlikely to be any updates in
the short term.

Notwithstanding that, Impression remains my desktop publisher of choice.

John

On 23 Jan, Adrian Crafer wrote in message
<f9aa74275b.bz36@orpheusnet.co.uk>:

> I believe the holding page reflects the exit of the recent maintainer.

There has never been anything on the Impression-X site to the best of my
knowledge, so I wouldn't read too much into its absence.

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Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

In message <uore0j$1sfni$1@dont-email.me>
John McCartney <j.mccartney@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23/01/2024 22:03, John Crane wrote:
>> Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?
>>
>> There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been a
>> few years now since the last update.
>>
>> The website listed on plingstore:
>> www.impression-x.co.uk
>>
>> seems to just be a holding page

> I have it on good authority that there's unlikely to be any updates in
> the short term.

> Notwithstanding that, Impression remains my desktop publisher of choice.

> John

Ah ok.

Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
I'll just stick with that.

There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

--
John Crane

In article <828bdc275b.john@john.johnandtina.force9.co.uk>,
John Crane <john@johnandtina.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> Ah ok.

> Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
> I'll just stick with that.

> There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

Runs very nicely here on my Pi using Aemulor

--
Stuart Winsor

Tools With A Mission
sending tools across the world
http://www.twam.co.uk/

In message <5b27e3021eSpambin@argonet.co.uk>
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <828bdc275b.john@john.johnandtina.force9.co.uk>,
> John Crane <john@johnandtina.force9.co.uk> wrote:

>> Ah ok.

>> Thanks. I can use my older version on Virtual Risc PC anyway, so maybe
>> I'll just stick with that.

>> There seems to still be quite a lot of '32 bitting' still to do on it

> Runs very nicely here on my Pi using Aemulor

I can also run the older version on My RO5 machine with aemulor.

I would be happier parting with £60 for 'X' if things were still being
developed and could see some sort of progress.

Having said that I appreciate it's not an easy job to sort and I know
there's only so much development time to go around so to speak.

It's great that so much stuff is still being progressed in our RISC OS
world anyway.

I don't really use Impression much anyway, was just curious as to how
things were going

Thanks all

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John Crane

In article <67296f275b.john@john.johnandtina.force9.co.uk>,
John Crane <john@johnandtina.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> Anybody know what's happening with Impression ?

> There seemed to be activity for a while, but it looks like it' s been
> a few years now since the last update.

I've used Impression since it first came out.

The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
a pain.

Richard Keefe said (in 2020) he had found out why, and it would be
corrected in the next version. But we haven't had the next version.

Alan Griffin

In article <6b6070285b.john@john.johnandtina.force9.co.uk>,
John Crane <john@johnandtina.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> I would be happier parting with £60 for 'X' if things were still being
> developed and could see some sort of progress.

I don't use it much either (X), the last time I used it was to produce the
manual for !Openvector. However, I think it is unlikely to progress any
further without funding, so I was happy to contribute.

--
Stuart Winsor

Tools With A Mission
sending tools across the world
http://www.twam.co.uk/

On 26/01/2024 11:30, Alan Griffin wrote:

> The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
> 12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
> cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
> a pain.
I've just saved a document with a 14-character name and it was fine.
Using ImpressionX v.5.799 Dev on RISC OS 5.29.
John

In article <b9c7edc9-2029-42da-8dd7-28f94ad8cf2d@blueyonder.co.uk>,
John McCartney <j.mccartney@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/01/2024 11:30, Alan Griffin wrote:

> > The problem with ImpressionX is that if I use a name with more than
> > 12 characters, it crashes my computer and I have to use Alt/Break to
> > cancel ImpressionX. I can get round it by using !Publisher, but it is
> > a pain.
> I've just saved a document with a 14-character name and it was fine.
> Using ImpressionX v.5.799 Dev on RISC OS 5.29.
> John

Interesting discussion...

SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and
continues to do so.
She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)

I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of the UI
of ImpressionX ?

Are there?

Thanks
Dave

I also used to use Imp Publisher a lot back in the days for business
paperwork, but when OvPro arrived, I manually converted(1) all my
Impression paperwork/templates into Ov Pro and I've not used Publisher
since, except to view the occasional old document.

Dave

Nb.1 This was back in the days before OvPro could auto load Impression
files.

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Dave Triffid

On 26/01/2024 19:40, Dave wrote:
> I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of
> the UI of ImpressionX ?
The interface is just the same as earlier versions of Impression apart
from an icon on the toolbar for easy access to editing and creating new
colours. There's also a new option in the print dialogue for typesetting
options.
In essence it's just like Publisher Plus.
John

On 26 Jan 2024 as I do recall,
Dave wrote:

> SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and
> continues to do so.
> She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)
>
> I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of the UI
> of ImpressionX ?

As I understand it there were no visiblechanges to the user interface of
ImpressionX - the work being done was all under the bonnet, as it were.

--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling goes away.

In article <4272f1285b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2024 as I do recall,
> Dave wrote:

> > SWMBO uses Imp Publisher (5.13), and has done for many, many years and
> > continues to do so.
> > She's actually using it right now on her machine as I write this. :-)
> > I wondered if there are any images available for her to look at of
> > the UI of ImpressionX ?

> As I understand it there were no visible changes to the user interface of
> ImpressionX - the work being done was all under the bonnet, as it were.

Thanks Harriet, I'll pass that on to her.

Dave

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Dave Triffid