>Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2739637.9Ykt55B4HM"; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >On Saturday 08 April 2006 17:07, Louis Desjardins wrote: >> >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. >> > >To be perhaps even clearer, Andreas plans to split the existing text rendering >out so existing docs can be loaded AND rendered how they are right now in >1.3.4cvs. There would then be a simple "reflow with new text engine" option >on a per frame or per document basis. Thats kind of the existing idea. We may >not achieve it, and it certainly wont be available immediately but if we can >get it to work users should have the best of both worlds.
You rock! :) Louis > >Craig > >Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > >Annexe convertie: Nicole:Sans titre 48 (????/----) (000BD7D5) >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
