The information in this document applies to SpecsIntact version 4.3.0.835, and includes changes made since version 4.3.0.821 of SpecsIntact. Information regarding previous versions of SpecsIntact is available from our web site at the following URL: http://si.ksc.nasa.gov/uic/TechHelp.htm.
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I. Customer Assistance
II. Installing SpecsIntact
III. What's New in SpecsIntact
IV. Known Problems in SpecsIntact
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I. Customer Assistance
You may contact SpecsIntact Support from 8:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. (EST), Monday through Friday.
Phone: (321) 867-8800
Fax: (321) 867-1444
Email: specsintact@ksc.nasa.gov
Web: http://si.ksc.nasa.gov/
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II. Installing SpecsIntact
1. System Requirements
The minimum recommended PC configurations for SpecsIntact are as follows:
* Pentium Processor
* 32 MB RAM
* 80 MB free disk space
* Windows® 98, or Windows NT® 4.0, or later. SpecsIntact may also work under Windows® 95, but SpecsIntact technical assistance is no longer available for Windows® 95 users.
* For Windows® 95 users: DCOM95, a Microsoft Windows® component, must be installed before using SpecsIntact. The SpecsIntact installation program will warn you if you need to install DCOM95.
2. Install SpecsIntact
After downloading the software from the SpecsIntact web site, run the file si.exe, and then select the 'Setup' button.
The SpecsIntact installation will then prompt you to select a local, workstation, or server installation. Choose a local installation to install the SpecsIntact software locally on your PC.
III. What's New in SpecsIntact
SpecsIntact Prints Revisions Correctly
SpecsIntact consistently prints revisions accurately, using underlining or strikeout fonts correctly. (TR 822)
SpecsIntact Correctly Prints Tables with Hidden and Merged Cells
SpecsIntact will now print tables with hidden and merged cells consistently with the way the SI Editor displays them. SpecsIntact also does a better job importing Excel® XML spreadsheets with cells merged across columns. (TR 862)
Many Large Tables Longer Than a Page Print Correctly
SpecsIntact will now correctly print or publish to PDF Sections containing many tables larger than a single page. (TR 885)
The tables must be so large that they extend across multiple printed pages. After printing a number of such tables, SpecsIntact will either fail or print lots of strange table XML codes (and no formatted tables). This issue (TR 885) did not occur displaying or printing the tables in the Editor, nor did it occur when publishing to Word format.
Table Data Preserved If Excel® XML Spreadsheet Not Imported
If it fails to import an Excel® XML spreadsheet into a table because the spreadsheet is already open in Excel, the SpecsIntact Editor will now preserve all existing data in the table, and will also now better explain why the spreadsheet was not imported. (TR 867)
When importing a Microsoft Excel® XML spreadsheet into a SpecsIntact table, the SI Editor will remove the old contents and background color of the first table cell even if the XML spreadsheet contains no data in this cell. (TR 835 and 846)
When importing an Excel® XML spreadsheet into a SpecsIntact table, the SI Editor will resize the table in better proportion to the original Excel® table. (TR 847)
Cannot Undo Prior Editing Actions after Importing Excel® XML Spreadsheet
The SpecsIntact Editor will no longer offer the option to undo editing actions that occurred prior to importing an Excel® XML spreadsheet into a table. (TR 865)
Unmerge All Table Cells at Once
The SpecsIntact Editor now offers the option to unmerge all cells in a table at once. To do this, select the "Unmerge All Cells" command from the Table menu when working on a table. The Editor's undo and redo commands are available when using this feature. (TR 864)
Text Preceding a Table on the Same Line Displays and Saves Correctly
The SpecsIntact Editor will now correctly prohibit adding text inside table (TAB) tags but outside the table cells. (TR 829)
While scrolling vertically with tags visible, the SpecsIntact Editor will no longer shift the apparent position of tables from the left margin to the end of the line with the beginning TAB tag. (TR 830)
The SpecsIntact Editor will no longer fail when opening Sections with subparts nested more than 8 levels deep. (TR 856)
The SpecsIntact Editor will allow the selection of text and will position the editing cursor correctly on long right or center justified lines of text with tags visible. (TR 850 and 857)
When printing with tags visible, SpecsIntact and the SI Editor will now correctly print tags just before tables, including beginning TAB tags. (TR 831)
Table Rows or Columns with Merged Cells Deleted Correctly
The SI Editor correctly deletes table rows or columns containing the origin of a small group of merged table cells. (TR 848)
Editor Prevents Merger of Table Header Rows with Other Rows
The SI Editor will now prevent the merger of table header rows with non-header rows. Merging header rows with non-header rows could cause erroneous table printing. (TR 852)
Medium or Thick Table Border Styles Display Correctly
The SpecsIntact Editor Table Properties dialog box will now correctly identify medium or thick border styles for tables that have three or more header rows. (TR 877)
When printing, the SpecsIntact Editor will now correctly position tables inside tags that specify left, center, or right justification. (TR 832 and TR 833)
The SpecsIntact Editor will now correctly print tables on the top line of a page with tags visible. (TR 874)
The SI Editor will now prevent the insertion of TAB tags around existing text outside of tables. (TR 853)
The SI Editor will no longer resize all table rows when adjusting the height of a single row. (TR 844)
When using revisions, the SI Editor will no longer place DEL and ADD tags inside existing ADD tags when pasting new text over selected text in a table cell that is not yet being edited. (TR 851)
The SI Editor no longer permits editing inside redlined text (text inside DEL tags) in table cells, even when not using Revisions. This behavior now is consistent with the way the Editor handles redlined text outside table cells. (TR 855)
Table widths and table font sizes in the Editor's Draft Print Preview will now more closely match these sizes in the Editor's screen display. (TR 868)
If a user scrolls away from a table while editing it, and then continues editing this table, the Editor will now scroll back so that the edited table cell is visible. (TR 871)
After adding a new reference identifier to a table cell using the Reference Wizard, the SpecsIntact Editor will now offer to update the Section's Reference Article with the new reference information. (TR 884)
The SpecsIntact Editor will now save empty table cell tags when saving Sections with tables. This will not change the way SpecsIntact displays or prints these cells, but it will simplify the display of SpecsIntact Sections by third party applications. (TR 882)
Justified, Styled and Indented Text Correctly Publishes to Word®
SpecsIntact will now correctly publish to Microsoft Word® text inside justified, styled, or indented TXT, LST, and ITM tags. SpecsIntact will consistently preserve the specified paragraph attributes while removing SI tags from the final Word® document. SpecsIntact also will no longer delete surrounding text when publishing text inside styled ITM tags to Word® format. (TR 656, 657, 819, 836, and 842)
Sections with Revisions Publish Using Word® 2007
SpecsIntact can now correctly publish Sections with revisions using Microsoft Word® 2007. (TR 837 and 838)
SpecsIntact will no longer replace some empty columns with incorrect data when exporting a submittal register to web/spreadsheet format. (TR 858 and 860)
SpecsIntact will now produce better diagnostic messages when it fails to export a submittal register file due to unexpected data. SpecsIntact will also no longer issue incorrect warnings about overwriting edited data when exporting a submittal register file and encountering an empty data file from a previous attempt. (TR 839 and 840)
SpecsIntact will now correctly display on the submittal register ampersands (&), and left and right angle brackets (< and >) when these characters are used within a submittal item. (TR 841)
SpecsIntact will no longer fail when performing release processing on a Master that contains Sections with references in the Reference Article missing the reference title. (TR 854)
SpecsIntact will now correctly create a new Section from a Section template, no longer converting the letters "dd" to the day of the month the Section was created. (TR 787)
SpecsIntact will now correctly remove NED tags when publishing Sections to Microsoft Word®. (TR 756)
SpecsIntact will now provide a correct Section number and date when creating a new Section in a Job using the Section template that SpecsIntact provides. (TR 849)
On a PC running Windows NT 4.0, SpecsIntact will no longer issue an erroneous message about being unable to delete an error log file. (TR 875)
When uninstalling SpecsIntact from a Windows XP PC, Windows will no longer occasionally ask for the Windows CD in order to restore original versions of system files. Also, when uninstalled, SpecsIntact will no longer display an error message about a missing setup.exe file. (TR 878 and 880)
The SpecsIntact network installation will now correctly install the Unified Master Reference List (UMRL), SpecsIntact Section templates, and necessary SpecsIntact initialization files. (TR 875)
The SpecsIntact installation will now more reliably register SpecsIntact ActiveX components requiring registration, and uninstalling SpecsIntact will correctly unregister these components. (TR 881)
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IV. Known Problems Using SpecsIntact
The mouse cursor may occasionally disappear when working near a table in the SpecsIntact Editor. Minimizing and then restoring either the Editor window or the document window within the Editor will correct this problem.
When publishing to PDF format with Adobe Acrobat®, you may encounter an ActiveX error number 429. This typically occurs due to insufficient user permissions for modifying the Windows registry. To remedy this problem, your system administrator will need to give you full permission to update the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID, as well as its subkeys. Always make a backup of the Windows registry before modifying it. For more assistance with this issue, please contact our support desk.
SpecsIntact may fail if you have installed other Windows products with the option "feature will be installed when required." This is a problem with the Microsoft Windows® install-on-demand feature. A common symptom of this problem is a request to provide the installation disk for another application when you first run SpecsIntact after installing it. This failure occurs because Windows does not permit the SpecsIntact installation to supply components that it needs in order to work, and then later attempts to obtain these components by prompting for the installation disk for the other software application. To work around this issue, reinstall the other application with all components fully installed, and then reinstall SpecsIntact.
When publishing a submittal register to PDF format using Adobe Acrobat®, the left margin may be set incorrectly. To work around this problem, generate the Submittal Register using Acrobat PDF Writer instead of Distiller. To obtain the benefits of the new SpecsIntact features for creating PDF bookmarks and hyperlinks, you can first print to Distiller, and then print only the Submittal Register using PDF Writer. Be sure to select the SpecsIntact printing option "Retain Existing PDF Files Unless Replaced with Newer Versions" prior to printing the Submittal Register.
When printing a submittal register to PDF format using Adobe’s Acrobat® PDF Writer, some horizontal lines may be shifted up or down so that they overlap the adjacent text. This problem with Acrobat® occurs when the PDF Writer graphics resolution is set to SCREEN. To correct this problem, change the graphics resolution to any value other than SCREEN. To do this from the SpecsIntact Print Processing dialog box, select the "Setup" button, and after ensuring that PDF Writer is the selected printer, choose the "Properties" button. In the Acrobat® PDF Writer Properties dialog box, the "Resolution" should be set to any value other than SCREEN (150 dpi is a good option). Select "OK" to accept this change.
SpecsIntact will sometimes incorrectly calculate the total number of pages when printing or publishing the submittal register. As a result, the last page number of the submittal register may be higher than the total page count shown. This can occur in cases where the last page contains only a few lines of text.
Old style table headers (THD tags) may sometimes inadvertently wrap to the following page or cause portions of the remainder of the document to be underlined. Refer to the User's Guide for guidance on the proper formatting of old-style tables. When creating tables, we recommend the use of formatted tables, created by typing the F5 key while editing in the SpecsIntact Editor.
When displaying Revisions in printed documents, redlined subparts do not appear in the section table of contents.
The SpecsIntact Editor will work with up to 500 TrueType fonts. Users with more than 500 TrueType fonts on their system will not be able to view or select all available fonts in the Editor’s Fonts dialog box.
Graphic Lines, Such As Those Used to Print a Submittal Register, Do Not Print Using RAW Data Format Print Spooling under Windows® 95
If you are spooling print jobs under Windows® 95, you SHOULD NOT specify RAW data format for spooling. To properly print line graphics, the SpecsIntact software (along with many other applications) requires data to be spooled in the default EMF format. Generally this is not a problem, because most Windows 95 applications require or support the EMF data format. Earlier versions of Microsoft Excel may require RAW data format to properly print line graphics, however.
Setting your Windows® 95 print spooling to RAW data format would cause a Submittal Register to print incorrectly without lines.
To check or change the spooled data format on a Windows 95 PC, select Settings from the Start Menu, and then select Printers. Right-click with your mouse on the icon for the printer you are using for SpecsIntact, and then select Properties. From the available folder tabs at the top of the displayed window, select Details, and then the Spool Settings button near the bottom of the window. If the next window shows that you have selected "Print directly to the printer," then you are not spooling print data, and this information does not apply to you. Otherwise, select the EMF spool data format, and then click on the OK button.