Congratulations on your new purchase of Gobe Productive Version 2.0

We have been working very hard to create the finest productivity tool available for any platform; we hope that you will be pleased with the result.
	
We are constantly working to improve and refine the functionality of Gobe Productive.  If you have not done so, register your copy right away.  Registering keeps you informed of exciting new developments and entitles you to major new releases at a low cost.  Mail in the registration card or visit our site
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Please read this document to find out what is new in Gobe Productive since version 1.1 and any last minute changes and tips that may not be in the user guide.

To report a bug, send e-mail to <bugs@gobe.com> 
Please give steps to reproduce the problem.

For support issues, send e-mail <support@gobe.com>

To request a feature for a future release, give comments, feedback or criticism,
send e-mail to <productive@gobe.com>

Let us know what you think!


New features in version 2.0:

General:
	File Exchange:
		• Read and write Microsoft Word files
		• Read and write Microsoft Excel files

	Rendering:
		• Higher rendering quality for curves, etc.
		• Faster rendering of gradients and rotated images
		• Better quality (bilinear sampled) rotated images
		• Alpha Blending (transparency) for all primitives and images
		• New pen effects
	
	Interface:
		• Format bar and tear-offs have been improved
		• Stylesheet editing has been simplified

Parts:
	• Word Processing
		• Text wrap around graphics
			• Any graphics object may have wrap properties
			• Wrapping styles and “text gap” controls for each object
		• Footnote and Endnote support
		• Show Invisibles

	• Image Processing.
		• Selection tools
			• Magic Wand
			• Lasso
			• Discontiguous (multiple) selections
		• Modification tools
			• Pencil
			• Airbrush
			• Eraser
		• Miscellaneous
			• Magnifying glass zoom tool.
			• Eyedropper color selector
		• Public domain plug-in system for third party effects.
		• New plugins
		• Alpha blending effects

	• Table part
		• Cells may be merged, split or resized within the table
		• Text cells support full word processing styling functionality

	• Spreadsheet
		• Text wrapping within cells
		• Transparent chart backgrounds


Changes for version 2.0.1

• Minor improvements to SYLK, Text, HTML, and RTF translators.
• WORD translator
	• Fixed export problem (some documents could not be opened with Microsoft Word)
	• Improved handling of tables on imported files.
	• General improvements
• Excel translator
	• Now supports exporting in Excel '97 format.
	• Japanese text is correctly exported in Excel '97 format.
	• Support for named ranges has been improved.
• Word Processing
	• Text now breaks on hyphens.
	• Line spacing can be non-integral values
	• Context popup menu has live spell-checking and thesaurus.
	• Endnotes have been improved.
• Spreadsheet
	• New functions: SUMIF, COUNTIF.
	• Now supports third party function plugins.  Contact <devsupport@gobe.com> for more details.
• In rare cases, printing Word Processing documents would crash.
• Rotation of images has been sped up.
• The Edit Styles floater displays incremental properties.
• On low-memory computers (32Mb) Image Processing performance has been improved.

Notes on file exchange:

Gobe Productive reads .doc files created by Word 6, Word ’97, Word ’98 and Word 2000 and Word Pad.  When writing an Microsoft Word file, Gobe Productive writes to the format of Word ’97 (Word 8 format).  These files can be read by Word ’97 or later but not by Word Pad or Word 6 or earlier.

When reading Word files, most special formatting and styles will import, however graphics, and artwork will not import.	
When reading and writing Excel files, most formatting and formulas will import correctly.  Macros, charts and graphic annotations are not supported.  We will continue to improve the fidelity of these translators in coming months.
Visit <http://www.gobe.com> for news regarding newer versions.

When writing a Gobe Productive document to a foreign file format some properties or graphics in a Gobe Productive document cannot be represented; for this reason, it is good practice to always save a copy of your work as a standard Gobe Productive document.


Note on installation:

You may notice a delay the first time you launch Gobe Productive after installation.  This happens as it imports texture files shipped with BeOS.  This is a one-time delay which should not occur again.


Tip for using text wrap around graphics:
	
Table cells and text frames that have “Autogrow Horizontally” selected will not wrap around graphics.  This allows you to place these frames over wrap-shapes with greater flexibility.


Tip for using auto-stationery:

To set up automatic formatting, save template files in the Defaults folder.  A file with the name PartName Default (e.g., Word Processing Default) will be used when creating a new document of that type.


Technical note regarding Image Processing plug-ins:

We are now using libimagemanip. Visit <http://www.xs4all.nl/~edmundv/#ImageManip> for information on writing plug-in effects for Gobe Productive 2.0 using libimagemanip.  Source for most of the plugins (all which are open source licensed) is located in the src.zip archive.  The older GIMP API is still supported (and some plugins continue to use it), but it has been deprecated.  Source to the remaining included GIMP filters is also in src.zip.


Known Bugs

Text that is fully justified may not display correctly for certain font sizes at scales other than 100%.  We currently believe it is caused by a system bug and are working with Be, Inc. to fix the problem.

