strange lettering

Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

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Mar 23, 2014 17:59

Hi all...did anyone come across this....
I'm editing a tile and as I'm writing, the text shows up in the edit window and up at the very top of the ( how do I explain this...) open window of PD , at the same level as "file, setting, edit , view" ..etc, except the words where all scrambled ...something like this. ruhdim, dongte, erlpdiy .
Now , in the edit window , all the text was proper...
Closed the text editing window , reopened it and all that was fine , top and in the text window .....I hope I explained myself properly........any ideas?

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Mar 23, 2014 22:09

Sometime the user interface for PowerDirector goes AWOL.

Parts of the user interface will reappear if you run your mouse pointer over the missing parts.

The best way to bring back the interface is to minimize the PowerDirector program (click on "-" upper Right ). Then restore the Window.

We think it is a refresh problem.

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Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

Mar 24, 2014 17:01

Thanks....I will try that

Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

Mar 31, 2014 19:37

Hey Carl312....I tried what you suggested and.....no can do...it's happening again....any other thoughts?
Thanks ...
Hold everything...I'll figure out how to do a "screen capture " and I will show you what is happening ( I found some more stuff/issues)
PLEASE STAND BY

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Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

Mar 31, 2014 20:05

ok...I thing I got this...here goes...take a look.....Thanks

Filename	#2.zip	Download
Description
Filesize	851 Kbytes
Downloaded:	194 time(s)

Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

Mar 31, 2014 20:07

Sorry I sent to much at once ......I wasn't paying attention

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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Mar 31, 2014 21:52

Daddyz - Thanks for sending over the screen clips.

From what I can see everything looks perfectly normal. For the "strange characters," are you referring to the nonsense "Ipsum Lorem" text that the Clover_04 title is prefilled with? That's just typographer text used to show off how the details of their fonts. You can delete all that by highlighting the text in the text box and put in whatever text you like.

In your screenshots, the text in the title bar also matches the first couple dozen characters, but the window title is only generated when the window is first opened and it won't be updated as you change the main text. The first time you'll see "Title Designer / Credit Ipsom" etc. but when you change the main text, click Save, then reopen the window it's title should match the starting letters and characters of the current text.

Does that answer your question, or have I missed something else that's going on?

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Apr 01, 2014 05:06

OD - I don't think you're missing a thing

Daddyz - the text in the templates is just "dummy" text to fill the space. Just select it and change it to what you want.

... but I don't quite understand why there is any difference between Preview & Title Designer. Maybe I'm missing something

Cheers - Tony
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Daddyz

Member Location: Ontario Canada Joined: Mar 16, 2014 17:25 Messages: 55 Offline

Apr 01, 2014 09:08

Sorry guys....I did not know that.
But in my defense.. it does not happen all the time , meaning that "dummy text" is not always there.
There are times when regular text appears instead of the "dummy text" .( must be a glitch)
Thanks.
Haaaaaa, technology today

Ho...it does change when edited..that I knew

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