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Dialogue Version Upgrade
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Macrosoft has expertise in performing Version upgrades of HP Exstream Dialogue to equip its clients with enhanced features to meet their communication goals and continue to receive HP Exstream support. Many clients do not have the resources or time to devote to this very important process. Find out how Macrosoft can keep your application versions up to date.

Why Should I move away from my current version?

• Support and maintenance of HP Exstream Software Version 4.0 will expire on December 31, 2010
• Ongoing support and maintenance of HP Exstream Design and Production 5.0, and any related software components, will reach their end-of-life on February 28, 2011
• Ongoing support and maintenance of HP Exstream Design and Production 6.0/6.1, and any related software components, will reach end-of-life on August 31, 2011

Why should I upgrade to newer Version

• HP Exstream Dialogue 7.0 includes more than 250 enhancements
• Support for Complex Interactive and On-Demand Customer Communications
• Optimized Remote collaboration
• Reduce Cost by Switching to ONE solution   
  • New conversion utilities for migrating from legacy document composition systems such as Documerge, Documaker and Top Down
  • Extended support for QuarkXpress and RTF designs
  • Improved output compare tools for testing
  • Ability to embed barcodes into automated tables
  • Wizard-based charting and new chart types
  • Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) output improvements for color support, outline fonts and DBCS

Known Issues when upgrading Dialogue Versions

• Timing issues on rules
• Font name changes
• Message change in version 6.0 and above
• The timing of output queue rules was changed in version 5
• After Version 5.0, only 9 decimal places is supported on a float variable
• Color may change shading on an output that uses "AFP OCA Black and White" or "AFP Black and White”
• Any Report File with an I/O timing of "End of customer, Post-Sort" is converted to Post-Sort Reports with I/O timing of “At end of each customer”
• 3.5 would not consistently use the same font OI (Object Index) internally when the font had been used at different resolutions (and new metrics saved), so the change in 4.0 and above forces the use of the oldest internal version only
• PDF pass-through positioning may change in Postscript output
• The format function works differently in Version 6.0 and newer when used with a currency variable
• Empty reports may be created if you are reporting on values that will not be available in the pre-sort run
• There are many changes to the operation of bundling page counts and sheet counts between versions 4.0 and 6.0
• Tables may not work correctly (Headers, Footers, etc.)
• Messages or flowing content pushed further down a frame, or completely out of a frame