Hi, > Please don`t get me wrong, i don`t want to criticize the developer of > scribus. > I just want to find, which release may be the best for me? 1.1.0. brings the > improvements concerning font-rendering but is still a devel release > (unstable?) And what about 1.1.1. ? Is this more stable than 1.1.0 ? The new > features might be nice, but are not that important for the layout of the > school magazin, though. At the moment, I'd prefer the 1.1.0, because of the > 1.1.1. problems when I wan to open older scribus docs. Maybe the most > important feature ( I did`t dealt whith at the moment) is the high quality > pre-press pdf export. This should work fine.
The current version of Scribus in CVS is 1.1.2 with the developer version at 1.1.3 (we've taken the decision for stable releases to be even numbers and internal versions to be odd). Lots has happened to Scribus since the 1.0 release, most notable the font handling system is now far faster and stable. The software is less prone to error as well (I've created a document over 100 pages and it's still going up!). PDF export is far better quality than just about every commercial package I've come across. > What are your recommendations? 1.1.2 > Are there releases planed for the next 2 weeks, which might bring bugfixes > and > proper stability ? What about CVS - it is normaly the most unstable thing, > but it`s also a good possibility for fast bugfixes, isn`t it? Scribus is in constant development (I've been doing a hell of a lot of optimisations throughout the code - the upshot is the binary is now under 1.8Mb (it's currently at 2.2Mb) and even faster than before. The anoncvs server, while you can consider it to be "bleeding edge", it's actually the code Franz and I have been working on and with the exception of once, it's been great. If Scribus was to become commercial, I think Franz, Peter and I would be takeing a well deserved holiday somewhere and come back, rest a while, do a couple of fixes and then implement the material which has been added since the 1.0.1 release and charge a small fortune for the upgrades. Things are planned and being planned... TTFN Paul -- Free your mind to a time where a company does not have control Free your mind to a choice of applications which you can control Free your mind from the closed world of those who seek total power Free your mind to the wonderful world of free software
