Paradox 9 Service Pack 4 Now Available

WordPerfect« Office 2000 Service Pack 4 is now available!!!

Whether you own Paradox 9 standard edition, developer edition, or you received Paradox 9 with WPO, you should get this service pack.

Service Pack 4 can be ordered for a S&H fee of $9.95 from Corel Customer Service. Please note that Service Pack 4 is not available as a download.

Service Pack 4 includes the previous fixes from Service Packs 1, 2 and 3.

Here are the pertinent links:

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  Old UBB Archived Link: [URL=http://www.corel.com/support/ftpsite/pub/wordperfect/wpwin/office2000/index.htm]Info on all Paradox and WPO Patches[/URL]
  
  
  
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  Old UBB Archived Link: [URL=http://www.corel.com/support/wordperfect/sp4.htm]General info on Service Pack 4[/URL]
  
  
  
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  Old UBB Archived Link: [URL=http://www.corel.com/support/wordperfect/sp4_notes.htm]Notes on service pack 4[/URL]
  
  
  
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  Old UBB Archived Link: [URL=http://athena.corel.com/cfscripts/corelnews/corelnews_wp2000sp3_form.cfm]Download Service Pack 3 Now[/URL]
  
  
  

Checking Your Version
To check which version of Paradox 9 you have installed select Help | About in Paradox and compare the Program Release number below.

• Initial Release = 9.0.0.367 (or 368)
  
  
• Service Pack 1 = 9.0.0.441
  
  
• Service Pack 2 = 9.0.0.512
  
  
• Service Pack 3 = 9.0.0.738
  
  
• Service Pack 4 = 9.0.0883
  
  

Service Pack 4 Paradox Info
Here is the pertinent information from the service pack 4 release note:

• Color dialog has been expanded to include system colors
  
  
• Paradox now functions properly with High Contrast colors
  
  
• Large high resolution JPEG images are now imported correctly
  
  
• Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with more than 32 columns are now imported correctly
  
  
• Attempting to repair a password-protected table without the correct password no longer corrupts the table
  
  
• Publishing a report with a tableframe that contains no records to WPD, RTF or DOC no longer causes an error
  
  
• Fixed several printing issues with HP printers
  
  
• Truncate function now returns correct values
  
  

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Michael A. Prestwood
Author, Corel Paradox 9 Power Programming: The Official Guide

President & CEO
Prestwood Software & Consulting
7525 Auburn Blvd., #8
Citrus Heights, CA 95610


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[This message has been edited by Mike Prestwood (edited November 14, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Mike Prestwood (edited February 18, 2001).]

Is there going to be a service pack 4 for runtime 9 also?

If so any idea when?

Thanks

Leo

You would think that after paying a couple hundred thousand dollars for a piece of software that the company would update their product for free.

wdm

Michael,
I contacted Corel Customer Support about SP4 for Paradox 9, standard edition, and was told that I can only get it if I have a developers edition. Where did you get your information?
Also I am still waiting for a solution to my very old many-many problem that I wrote about I do not know when. Maybe you remember: "Photographs/boats and owners". I think you said something about putting in 10 cents worth. (I have moved and got myself a new computer which is giving me trouble, so nothing much has been done the last months)
Regards
Jan Mark

Thank you Rick for your help. I have mailed
Dan Alder at Corel so we will see what happens.

Sorry, no. It doesn't looklike this is on the cards, at least until after WPO/2K++ ships.

Sorry.

There _could_ be one after that point, bit only if TPTB at CORL realize that this is significant. {Hint, hint}

-- f

According to a newsgroup posting from Dan Adler (reproduced below), the decision was made to send a complete Office Pro CD (SP 4) to any licensed Paradox 9 user.

So, either the Corel rep you contacted was not aware of the policy, or Corel decided to renege on the deal. You might want to try contacting Dan Adler at Corel.

Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:54 -0500
From: "Dan Alder (Corel)"
Organization: Corel Corporation
Newsgroups: comp.databases.paradox
Subject: Re: Pdox 9 and Service Pack 4

Richard Carter wrote:
>
> Dan Alder (Corel) (dana@corel.com) wrote:
> : > There is no SP4 for Runtime, and I haven't heard if there is going to
> : > be one.
>
> : There won't be an SP4. If we do a WPO2000 SP5, We'll do a Runtime SP
> : then.
>
> I see. And would that be because (a) the problems addressed in SP4
> were not problems that needed to be addressed in the Runtime version,
> or (b) because Corel is not as firmly committed to supporting those
> who paid a premium price for the Developer's Edition?


Because we ran out of resources and time. If you remember, SP4 shipped
shortly after we laid off many employees, which was followed by many
others leaving the company (which is not unusual after a layoff). On top
of that, we needed to start work on WP Office 10, which was rather
behind schedule.

I was, however, able to arrange for anyone who needed SP4 and who had
not bought the suite to get a suite CD. That's a fairly large concession
for us to make, since we're basically handing out the whole suite for
free.

--D

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Dan Alder
Program Manager, Paradox, WP Office for Linux & OEM/ESD Products

Rick Carter
Chair, Delphi/Paradox SIG
Cincinnati PC Users Group

Any new info on the Runtime update?

Will designing applications in the updated Paradox 9 pose a problem when running these applications in the older version of Runtime?