Using Microsoft OneDrive folders for SpecsIntact Working Directories can lead to corrupt Sections and other data. Create SI Working Directories on normal Windows folders instead. We are aware of no SpecsIntact problems using network file sharing applications other than Microsoft OneDrive, although we cannot support any such tools.
Tables in SpecsIntact-published PDF files appear without some borders when viewed in Adobe PDF tools (Acrobat or Reader). This does not occur when using non-Adobe PDF tools. The Adobe option to 'enhance' thin lines causes this problem, and can be turned off to correct it:
SpecsIntact may fail or work incorrectly 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.
Using punctuation characters in SpecsIntact Working Directories can cause SpecsIntact to work incorrectly. Avoid all characters that Windows prohibits, including '\/:?*<>|",' as well as semi-colons (;), caret symbols (^), period (.), and most other punctuation.
Safe punctuation characters to use in SpecsIntact Working Directories are the underscore (_), hyphen (-), and space characters.
Lines in published Word Table of Contents are sometimes indented slightly beyond the left margin, and some fonts may differ from those shown in SpecsIntact. These issues are artifacts of Microsoft Word's conversion from PDF to Word format.
Information on the bottom of merged rows in formatted tables will not print if the rows are merged to a height that exceeds the height of a printed page.
Formatted tables inside TST tags are limited to approximately 40 rows. Use multiple Test (TST) tags and formatted tables for large amounts of tabular test data.
When using the Shift or Ctrl key to select and drag multiple sections from one Job or Master to another, the SI Explorer requires that you keep the shift or control key pressed until after you start to drag the Sections.
The SI Explorer cannot attach large numbers of Sections to a single e-mail message using the E-mail... command available in the Sections menu. If this happens, the message will list the Sections, but they will not be attached. To work around this, drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste the Sections from the SI Explorer directly into an already open e-mail message.
Text in some SpecsIntact dialog boxes may be truncated, especially when using smaller Windows text sizes. In most cases, switching to another text size (such as medium) will eliminate this issue. These settings are available in the Windows Control Panel.
Quickly highlighting text from bottom to top can cause the SI Editor to fail. This problem does not occur when highlighting from top to bottom, and highlighting slightly more slowly will prevent it. For highlighting or deleting subparts, we strongly recommend using the SI Editor's Navigator, which is not susceptible to this issue. For highlighting and deleting any other tags, we recommend using the SI Editor's Shift+Del feature, rather than manually highlighting and deleting the tagged text.
Colored text at the end of a page may spill over to the subsequent page header and footer when printing or publishing to PDF with color. Users who don't need color can uncheck the option to show color when printing or publishing to PDF. A future SpecsIntact release will correct this issue.
The SI Editor's Check Submittal command works only on Submittal Items located outside of formatted tables.
Spaces and carriage returns inside formatted tables are not visible when viewing marks in the SI Editor.
The SI Editor displays hint text when your mouse hovers over certain tagged text, such as Reference Identifiers (RID tags), Tailoring Options (TAI tags), and hyperlinks (URL tags). Enlarging the Windows display text (DPI) to 'Larger' sizes of 150% or greater may cause these hints to flicker rapidly. To prevent this, set your Windows text size (DPI) to 149% or less. Do this by right-clicking on the Windows desktop, selecting Personalize, then Display, and then Set custom text size (DPI). Type 149 in the Scale to this percentage of normal size field. You may also disable the SI Editor's hint text by unchecking the Provide hint text when the mouse cursor hovers over tags option on the Edit tab of the SI Editor's Options window, which is available from the Tools menu.
The SI Editor always displays the Bracket Replacement dialog on a computer's main monitor, even with the option selected to not move the dialog box after placing it on a second monitor.
When publishing to PDF format 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.
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. When creating tables, we recommend the use of formatted tables, created by pressing 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 SI Editor's Fonts dialog box.
Users are encouraged to visit the SpecsIntact Website's Support & Help Center for access to all of our User Tools, including Web-Based Help (containing Troubleshooting, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Technical Notes, and Known Problems), eLearning Modules (video tutorials), and printable Guides.
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