The Picture Refresh List button does NOT work as advertised

[davidc86]

The help text associated with the Refresh List button in the Pictures tab does NOT just update the captions and the verse references.

It totally wiped out every setting I had for my pictures. It changed the scale, changed the Anchor, changed the location. Sorry, but this is a serious bug! The refresh button should have kept everything exactly the same and just tweaked the caption text for each picture.

And it even removed 5 out of the 12 pictures from my PTXprint project!

How do I hit UNDO?

I don't see any way to return to the previous settings.

[markpenny]

Ouch! That's nasty. I'm sorry about that. [There is a way to get your .piclist back from a previous .PDF file]

A few months ago we did some work on the Generate... button which now actually preserves the settings:

But why has Refresh List gone crazy? Good question. We may need to remove that option in the light of the improved Generate... function.

[davidc86]

Well, if we preserve the piclist, the generate button adds new pictures, and if we've moved some pictures in the PDF, the original location is also inserted into the new PDF!

What we wanted was a simple way to simply scan through the Paratext file to verify that any changes made in Paratext to the captions would get updated into PTXprint -- without touching anything else in the pictlist. (I see that it also said it would update the verse reference -- NOT the anchor reference -- which seems like a good idea too.)

So, it is still needed as an option.

[markpenny]

We have temporarily disabled the button until we can fix it to work as advertised.
If fact, the plan is to only have an "Update..." button and change the dialog so that it is clear what you are updating, and what won't be changed. In the new year I'll get your input/feedback on the new design and wording.
Thanks again for alerting us to this regression.