Praise and bug reports!

First of all, great job on the new release! I am glad to see working support for XCLIP (one of the most valuable but underrated features in a long time) and to see real progress on the Undo/Redo business. Thanks!Now the inevitable complaints and suggestions. Some of these are old but some are new to this version.1. A hard return in an MTEXT object does not display correctly if the previous line has been wrapped. If the MTEXT box is made large enough so that the previous line does not wrap, then the hard return appears correctly. This is a new bug.2. The spacing between words in some MTEXT objects is too close. With the Autocad font ARCHITXT.SHX for example, there is almost no space between words. This is a new bug, I think.3. When a new MTEXT object is created, the size of the text is dependent on the zoom factor. If the text size is supposed to be 9", for instance, it will actually vary from this depending on how close you are zoomed in. This is an old bug -- it's been there for a while and I have been harping on it at every new release.4. The same thing happens when an existing MTEXT object is edited using the full editor -- the size of the text is changed depending on the zoom factor.5. The size of text in the MTEXT full editor dialog box depends on the zoom factor, too. This seems like a bug to me although some may consider it a feature (can't see what it helps, though). If you are zoomed way out the text is too small to be readable, and if you are zoomed way in it is huge. This is an old one too.6. In the new XREF manager dialog box, it is not possible to change the "Reference Name" used for the XREF. This is possible in Autocad and it is a great help when you have the same file XREF'ed in several times (for instance a demolition plan and a new construction plan referencing the same xref, but with different layers visible). It should work by just clicking twice on the Reference Name in the manager dialog box.7. XREF manager does not allow saving a new path. You can browse for a new path and then click on the save path button, but the path in the list above does not change. It is still possible to change the path using the XREF comman (text window version) but it's not easy.8. If you have more than one copy of an XREF in a file, changing the XCLIP boundary on one of the copies deletes it from the other copies. This is also different from Autocad behavior. In Autocad it is possible to select a clipped XREF and copy it, and then change the clipping boundary on the copy without altering the boundary on the original. They both show up in the XREF manager window with the same reference name and layer visible is controlled together, though. This is useful when you are doing section details from a building section XREF that has all the detail in it -- you bring in the building section XREF once and then copy it and clip down to the individual details. Actually, although the last three are all important, if only no. 6 (changing the reference name) could be accomplished it would at least allow a workaround of the others.Again, thanks for the great progress and for making this software useable!

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