>On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:36, Louis Desjardins wrote: >> Hi Team, >> >> I should know the answer but just as a stupid check: >> >> Say we use 1.3 series on Windows (average Windows users). Considering >> that it is stable enough to work (and we cannot use 1.2.x on Windows >> as a plain regular user), can we assume 1.4 will be able to open >> those "old" documents in the stable version? >> >> So, question really is: can we assume there will be an upward >> compatibility between 1.3 and 1.4? >> >> I am not concerned with backward compatibility because I think this >> is irrelevant in OSS (users can just update, as simply as that). >> >> Thanks! >> >> Louis >> _______________________________________________ >> Scribus mailing list >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >Hi Louis, > >We take care to make sure new versions can open old docs. There is a special >fileloader plugin which does just that. > >I have files from 0.5.5 which used QT2 that open in today's bleeding edge >1.3.4CVS. *Sometimes* The text runs are slightly different, but the files >are completely usable and editable. > >Moreover, I built Scribus 0.8 to make additional test filess just for that >purpose. > >So, you can count on opening the files for sure. What will change is the text >runs with the new text engine as it will be smarter about paragraph shaping >and line breaks. > >I hope that makes clear what to ensures old files are opened without drama.
Yes Peter! Super clear! Thanks. Louis > >Cheers, > >Peter > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
