On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:46:11 Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. M?rz 2008 19:44:41 schrieb Michal Blazejczyk: > > Alexander Haensch wrote: > > > (...) > > > > > > The most importent thing is the File format. It would be > > > a catastrophy if i cannot open a old Article with a newer > > > version. > > > > > > Is there a guarantee of using old scribus files in new > > > versions? > > > > Hi, > > > > Just a comment on this particular topic. I haven't had > > problems *opening* my old files with newer versions of > > Scribus. However, they often don't *look* the same in > > newer versions. For example, at some point the default > > distance between text and the edges of text frames was > > changed which made all my text frames misalign. > > Sometimes it can be something even smaller, a minor > > rendering change of some sort, and suddenly your text > > doesn't end where it was ending a month earlier. > > > > I use Scribus to publish a magazine, and the precise > > layout of text is important for me. For the reasons > > described above, I very rarely open old Scribus files > > in newer versions - I just know they won't look the > > same. > > One means to improve the situation is to upload those files with a bug > report and a description of what has changed, so that the issues can be > fixed.
Minor text issues will not be fixed, however, we simply cannot program forever to keep the old system alive in all its glory. At some point we have to take a hit and move on to better rendering and better glyph layout. There were changes made in 1.3.0, and more in 1.3.4 and 1.3.5. I convinced Andreas to write the new text system with 2 modes, old (ie rewrite the bugs of the old system but in a stable, known way, in 1.3.4) and the new system will be a user selectable option (coming in 1.3.6+). For those that desperately need to keep layout 100% consistent, you can easily keep old versions of Scribus around - dependencies have not changed that much. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080307/a855ca9e/attachment.pgp
