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ZynewaveKeymasterhe he….that may be where I can help you Frits…
Thanks for the offer. Podianer also has InDesign and has previously offered me help with this as well. But as I said, this could involve a lot of work. When the guide is more complete, I aim to update it before each release with the new features. To update a second version of the guide in another format (InDesign) would take time, and I would depend on you to make the updates before I could include the PDF in a new release.
If you want to experiment with this, you can download the fullsize screenshots in the getting started wiki page. Clicking the screenshots in the wiki guide will open them first in a semi-size window, and another click opens them in fullsize. The other screenshots in the ‘old’ parts of the guide I don’t have in fullsize.
ZynewaveKeymasterHi Eric,
I’m glad you like the general idea behind Podium. There’s hope for the future then. Let me know if you find anything that you cannot work around. Btw. I have just updated the Podium demo.
Frits
ZynewaveKeymasterSome issue on exporting the PDF maybe?
As I mentioned in another topic, I now maintain the Podium guide and tutorials on the wiki, where I’ve set up a link that will take all the wiki guide pages and present them in a single printer-friendly page. I currently use PDFCreator which is an open source printer driver that can print to PDF files. This setup makes it very easy for me (and other volunteers) to update the guide and tutorials on the wiki, and then simply print the latest version to PDF before each new Podium release. I think the coarse graphics are a result of this process. The graphics are available in hires in the wiki, but the conversion to html pages and then to PDF probably causes the graphics to be resized. There are some DPI settings in the PDF printer driver that may improve this. I haven’t tried this yet.
If anyone knows of a way to create higher-quality PDF files, I’m all ears. What is important to me is that I can generate the PDFs automatically from the wiki contents. It would be too much work if I have to cut and paste wiki changes into a dedicated PDF program like Adobe InDesign.
ZynewaveKeymasterHello Ikandobalt,
I’m afraid the answer is ‘no’ to all your questions 🙁 . But I like all your suggestions, so I’ll implement them at some point. For the time being I’m putting all minor feature updates on hold though, to prepare for a couple of major updates to the audio support.
Frits
ZynewaveKeymaster- PDF versions of Podium guide and tutorials.
- Various improvements and bug fixes.
ZynewaveKeymasterI cannot think of any other feature that is wanted more, yet you say so little about it. Is it that you really do not see the importance of it or as I suspect it would require a major rework under the hood of Podium?
I don’t think it is fair to say I say so little about it. On several topics over the last couple of months I have mentioned that improvement of audio features is going to be the next big step on my plan. I do see its importance, and it doesn’t require a major rework of the engine.
Most of the features implemented over the last few months, such as the project start page, have been usability enhancements. User feedback on e.g. kvr suggested that it was difficult to get started with Podium, so I considered this equally important as event fades. You yourself have contributed a large number of posts about the urgency of making it easier for new users to get into Podium. It’s hard to please everyone at the same time. I’m trying to please most people with frequent Podium releases. I’m sadened if this gives the impression that I’m ignoring big features like event fades. Sometimes I wonder if it would be a better solution to do like e.g. Jørgen is doing with eXT2; Stop the frequent releases and announce that something “big” is coming up, and then go undercover for a year or so.
ZynewaveKeymasterThe VST .fxp file format can store max 24 chars in the preset names. So when you export a preset with a longer name to fxp, the name is cut off.
Also Frits were you able to extend the ZPEQ bank capacity to 64 programs?
I think I’ll leave zPEQ as it is for now. Importing your preset files as library presets works quite well I think.
ZynewaveKeymasterIf you are just looking for a way to verify whether there are any events on a hidden track, you could check the event list in the track inspector. When I designed the hidden track lane feature, the main purpose was to be able to hide tracks that had no events on the timeline.
This FR goes in at the low-priority end of the todo list 😉
ZynewaveKeymasterNew tutorial: Multiple monitor outputs
http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials:multiple_outputs:index
Comments?
I wonder if any of you have done something similar, or even were aware that you could do something like this in Podium?
ZynewaveKeymasterI just spotted the rather bold Podium banner.
The banner is a screenshot of the new splash screen you will see when 1.71 is released.
I’m currently writing about the project start page in the guide, and the “getting started” pages will be updated as well. Having the guide in the wiki section will hopefully make it easier for me to keep the guide updated. When I eventually fill out the remaining chapters, my goal is to keep it updated on every release.
Maybe as members we could somehow chip in to update certain parts for you?
You’re all welcome to edit the wiki. If you’re afraid to touch the Podium guide, then you could consider writing tutorials describing how you work with Podium. This way you could get feedback on the tutorials in the forums with suggestions on how to improve the workflow.
ZynewaveKeymasterI’ve added a “Sort Alphabetically” command to the context menu of a multiple object selection. This command is available in the browser and list windows, as well as the start page lists.
ZynewaveKeymaster@duncanparsons wrote:
I’ve been using the opensource PDFCreator print driver recently.. I can’t recall if it has TOC.. will check at home..
Thanks Duncan. I’ve now switched to PDFCreator. The sponsor pop-ups of pdf995 was getting quite annoying.
ZynewaveKeymasterI have seen the T3 video. Wasn’t the category browsing a feature for loop files rather than plugin presets?
Certainly I would wait until the VST3 spec is made public by Steinberg. The info says it supports a category description for the plugin. Maybe they also added something like this for presets, although I doubt it.
Time frame for implementation?
Not this year.
Before adding loop browsing features, I need to improve the loop playback support.
ZynewaveKeymasterRather than starting a new topic, I’m reviving this old one 🙂
Since this topic was started, the Podium guide has been moved to the wiki section. The last couple of days I have spent some time making an easily printable version of the guide based on the wiki pages. I would rather not have to maintain two different versions of the guide in the future (the wiki pages and the old html guide). Take a look at this page:
http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=guide:index
There is a new link that will open the entire guide in a single printer-friendly web page. I have tried some of the freeware pdf printer drivers, and the next release of Podium will contain a pdf file instead of the now obsolete html guide.
I am also searching for a slightly more advanced pdf printer-driver, which would allow auto-generation of pdf bookmarks (to create a linkable TOC in the pdf). If anyone encounters a pdf printer-driver that can do this, please let me know. It doesn’t have to be freeware.
ZynewaveKeymasterIs there something special to do , because with Hypercanvas , i have only one midichannel created?
That must be because Hypercanvas only has a single stereo output in which case Podium imports it as an insert plugin. I’ll add a “New multitimbral instance” right click menu for instrument insert mappings. Meanwhile you’ll need to create the MIDI channel mappings manually.