Hello,
I paid my subscription and I installed Prime 2 and I cannot believe what I saw: a horrible GUI.
I mention that when I talk about GUI, I talk about all interface, except the document area.
I am presenting below some of the bugs (when I pay, all issues are bugs):
- there are several types of fonts in GUI. There should be only one. The Windows default one (On Win 7 is Tahoma. Set all GUI fonts to MS Shell Dlg 2.)
- ClearType cannot be turned off;
- switching between documents with Ctrl+Tab is bringing a new window on top !?!;
- no way to insert WMF, EMF;
- when right clicking on the page, the tab title font is turning from bold to regular;
- now way to change GUI color (is always blue. No gray, no black theme);
- all icons are blurry;
- cannot add/remove buttons to Quick Access toolbar;
- no x button for closing the tabs
- button selection is blue on ribbon and yellow on right click menu;
- and more, many more ...
And all of these after 2 years of development.
Any IT student can solve a GUI like the Mathcad one, in this way:
- find on Google a 2010 Office looking GUI, with high quality icons for 50$ or less;
- 2 weeks of work to insert icons and to make connections to the commands.
So much work for nothing. Prime 2 is virtually unusable.
PTC, you forget that most of the user work is data input and you cannot compensate a worst GUI ever seen with an x64 version or some new math libraries.
In few words, Prime 2 is a diamond wrapped in a newspaper.