Yes, just in the past hour I tested Board Notifications myself and found that, while they work fine for me as admin, they don't work if I log in as a test non-admin Member.  I'm digging into the guts now.

speaking of forum notifications: those never worked for me as well. Jerry, can you check this? Is it working for you?

Annie wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 11:01pm:
If you do not see Safari in the submenu, that could be because you have not yet added any bookmarks in Safari on this Mac; therefore Safari has not created a Bookmarks file; in this case Bookdog can't open them and therefore omits Safari from the submenu.  Regarding Help, sometimes Apple Help Viewer takes "an eternity" (tens of seconds) to load and cache Help for a newly-installed app.  However, these problems could also be caused by an incomplete download, or more likely, an incomplete copy after moving the file from the Disk Image to /Applications.  Sounds weird but I've had it happen to me many times.
Annie wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 11:01pm:
OK, but just for the record, thousands of people are using Bookdog in Mac OS 10.6.4.  It definitely works.

Annie wrote on Sep 12^th, 2010 at 8:27pm:
Whenever you get a new Mac, I recommend using the Apple Migration Assistant.  It transfers all your apps, all your documents, all your emails, all your photos, all your music, all your bookmarks, and all your preferences and other data from all your apps, all at once.  You shouldn't need to mess with apps one at a time.

However, if you didn't do that, the two items you would transfer for Bookdog are:

    ~/Library/Preferences/com.sheepsystems.Bookdog.plist   (a file)
    ~/Library/Application Support/Bookdog   (a folder)

where, as always in Unix, the "~" means "Your home folder".

Bookdog does not store bookmarks, so if you didn't use Apple Migration Assistant or equivalent, you'll need to get each of those files from your browsers manually also.  The locations are explained in Bookdog Help.  Search for "file".  Let me know it you have trouble.

F451 wrote on Aug 29^th, 2010 at 5:06am:
Yes, but like it says in the warning when you launch it, the new Dropbox sync has not been fully tested yet.  In particular, there was one situation where the BookMacsterizer bookmarklet would be duplicated with each Dropbox sync.  Hope to look at that later today.

F451, you mentioned a few months ago that your spouse found it odd that that changing some settings made the document have unsaved changes.  That no longer happens, for settings in Settings ▸ [i]Open/Save[/i], Clients, or Agents.  That's because these are now "Local Settings", stored immediately in Application Support and not in the document.  Besides clearing the oddity, this was also necessary for Dropbox support, since we felt that many users would want these settings to be different on different Macs.  But this means that when you (or Dropbox) copies a .bkmslf document over to another Mac for the first time, these settings are empty and you must re-set them manually.  But we believe that's not a big deal, thanks to the new Simple interfaces.

OK, enough.  We got stuff to do.

Annie, in this business, if a user needs to use the Help Book in order to get started, it means that we have failed to make the app easy enough to use.  I would add that if a user wants to print a Help Book, it means that we have really failed.

We've been working on that failure for the last few months and have now produced BookMacster 1.1 (beta) we believe resolves this issue.  Please trash the version of BookMacster which you have, download and install BookMacster 1.1 from our beta update link,
   
   http://sheepsystems.com/bookmacster/beta/BookMacster.zip

Upon running BookMacster 1.1 it will probably try to open a Bookmarkshelf document which you created with BookMacster 1.0, and inform you that it failed in an Error dialog.  That's expected (until we finish the beta).  Just click "OK" and forget it.  To repeat, for other readers, at this time BookMacster 1.1.x (beta) will not open Bookmarkshelf documents created with BookMacster 1.0.x.  So, if you've been using BookMacster 1.0.x and are reasonably happy with it, just wait until BookMacster 1.1.x shows up in Check for Update.

If you'd like BookMacster to immediately do everything which Bookdog did for you, in the menu clidk BookMacster ▸ Import From Bookdog….  If you'd rather start over from scratch, click File ▸ New Bookmarkshelf.

Now, regarding printing that Help Book, first of all, as you'll be warned when launching BookMacster 1.1, the Help Book is currently obsolete and is due for a major rewrite soon, so printing it at this time may not be fruitful.  Second, BookMacster Help uses the Apple Help Viewer format, and although Apple Help Viewer does have a Print command, as you noted it only prints one page at a time.  I'm not sure about repeatedly printing pages, but I just made a note to look at that when we rewrite it.  Anyhow, like the Help Books for Apple's applications such as Safari, BookMacster Help is not really designed to be printed.  A good Apple Help Book in a well-crafted app is used only on occasion, when you need advanced behavior information or want to use and advanced feature.

That being said, BookMacster 1.1 is still beta, so please post any feedback or questions on how to use it here.  This forum is also available from within BookMacster.  Click in the menu Help ▸ Visit Forum...

Finally, in BookMacster 1.1, in Preferences, there is a new Updates tab in which you can set BookMacster's Check for Update feature to automatically download subsequent Beta "Early Adopter" versions.

Thanks for the feedback.

I want to print the entire user guide so I can read it straight through and understand the software and how to use. Is there a way to do this? I've tried to click on the links on the BookMaster Help page and print each link out one at a time to compile them but the numbers aren't sequential and some parts are being printed more than once.
Thank you for your help with this. I loved Bookdog and am hoping to love BookMacster too but I'm terribly confused right now. (The Bookdog grad part didn't help).