Dear Mike,
Thank you very much for your valuable comments.
- A simple instruction for the 'Mirror Inversion' is placed here:
Pepakura Designer 3 Tips
Pep Designer can get a little confusing for new users
when it won't let them save and asks for a 'password'. I know that they have to register to get that password but they think that they have to enter the password that is protecting the file (the same one they have to enter to open the protected file). You might want to consider changing the wording for the password to unlock the program to a 'registration key' or something like that. This way they can see that there is a difference. People will instantly know they have to pay for the program registration to unlock the full functions and they automatically expect to have to enter a registration key.
- I agree that the word 'password' is confusable because it is used both
for unlocking a read-only fine and for activating the save/export
feature. We will replace the later one with 'keycode'.
Thank you for your comment.
The scale factor is not listed in the pepakura viewer program. I understand that you can't change scale in the Pep Viewer program and that this would require a lot of work to implement but would it be hard to list the scale of the file? Right now people don't know what scale the file is unless I put the scale in the title. Maybe you could update the Pep Viewer program to read the scale and display it next to the final assembled measurements.
- About displaying scale on Pepakura Viewer, I'm sorry I may not
understand your request. If you need to inform a scale value to users,
the value might be written on the pattern as a text object, or you may
write the value to the comment field of Properties dialog through
[File]-[Properties] menu. You can set this comment pops-up when the .PDO
file is opened by exporting the file as read-only.
In Pep Viewer there is a misspelled word in the file menu. The word Document is spelled Dcoument. I have attached a picture so that you can see where it is.
- The misspelled menu will be fixed at the next update. Thank you very much.
The measurement tool is a great feature. I had an idea that might help take better measurements. Sometimes, it is better to know the circumference of a part. For example, if I have a pep file for forearm armor I could use the tool to measure the open border on either end of the model to see if my arm will fit in. I could do the same for armor that goes around my waist. It is really hard to see if armor will fit around a body part since we can stick a ruler through that body part to measure from one side to the other. 
So if you could set up the measurement tool to measure the circumference of an open border then it would be that much more awesome. When you select the measurement tool, maybe there could be a pop-up panel with two buttons. One to 'measure border' and another to 'measure point-to-point'.
- Measuring a circumference length sounds interesting. We will consider
it by estimating the implementation difficulty.
When you try to open a file that is protected by password and you type the password in the box, if you hit the enter key then it will open the file in Pep Viewer instead of Pep Designer. This happens because the default button selected when that pop up window opens is the button under the text box that says 'Open in Pepakura Viewer'. This is a little problem because most other programs will allow you to hit the enter key after typing a password. This has caused a lot of confusion with people that are not computer literate. They can't figure out why the file wont open in Pep Designer. They assume the password is not right. If you could make the default button the 'OK' button then if they hit the enter key after typing the password then it would still
open in Pep Designer.
- I completely agree with your request. To modify the default active button is simple task. We will surely improve this on the next update.
We will release the next very minor updated version around the end of
this month.
Thank you very much for keeping touch with us.
Sincerely
Yotsuya
