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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1401413" data-attributes="member: 6957">I very much doubt that they can afford to give everybody replacement copies. And I believe that they are selling through them.As someone else mentioned many of the errors are not integral to the system, that is that the system itself is largely unaffected. The biggest exception that I have heard is that the weapon damages are inconsistent. Sounds to me rather like they got too close to their print deadline (Missing a print deadline can be expensive!) and rushed it out the door. It wouldn't surprise me if the find/replace errors were done as a last minute bit of 'polish' that went horribly wrong.And it is quite likely is partly the fault of an early version of Quark, which was the only version that I ever used. Among other things it had a terrible global find and replace. The program would and could do horrible things to your document if you weren't careful, and on occassion even if you were but didn't go back and take a look at a hardcopy of the final presentation. On a number of occassions what showed up on screen was a picture with the text flowing smoothly around it. What came out of the printer was a picture with the text hidden under it... One of the main selling points for changing over to Indesign was that it 'isn't Quark!' (And the difference in price between upgrading Quark and buying Indesign new was less than expected. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)The Auld Grump, who also misses <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 1401413, member: 6957"] I very much doubt that they can [i]afford[/i] to give everybody replacement copies. And I believe that they are selling through them. As someone else mentioned many of the errors are not integral to the system, that is that the system itself is largely unaffected. The biggest exception that I have heard is that the weapon damages are inconsistent. Sounds to me rather like they got too close to their print deadline (Missing a print deadline can be [i]expensive![/i]) and rushed it out the door. It wouldn't surprise me if the find/replace errors were done as a last minute bit of 'polish' that went horribly wrong. And it [i]is[/i] quite likely is partly the fault of an early version of Quark, which was the only version that I ever used. Among other things it had a terrible global find and replace. The program would and could do horrible things to your document if you weren't careful, and on occassion even if you were but didn't go back and take a look at a hardcopy of the final presentation. On a number of occassions what showed up on screen was a picture with the text flowing smoothly around it. What came out of the printer was a picture with the text hidden under it... One of the main selling points for changing over to Indesign was that it 'isn't Quark!' (And the difference in price between upgrading Quark and buying Indesign new was less than expected. :)) The Auld Grump, who also misses :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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