On 20/10/2011, at 3:55, Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at q.com> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Jean Ghali wrote:
>
>> Le 19/10/2011 22:43, Alexandre Prokoudine a ?crit :
>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>>>> Tonight, we have released Scribus 1.4.0.rc6. Many issues were resolved
>>>> with this RC update, as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Significant text formatting updates, resolving numerous bugs relating to
>>>> certain cases of:
>>>> * Spacing
>>>> * Wrapping
>>>> * Alignment
>>>> * Link frames
>>>> * Style Editing
>>>
>>> ...and implementing a bug that results in incorrect loading of files
>>> created with RC5. In particular, all text is shifted vertically. I
>>> have reports from two people on that already. Is this a known
>>> regression or sholuld I tell them to submit test files?
>>>
>>
>> Given the changes between rc5 and rc6 versus layout, some differences are to
>> be expected.
>> Those differences are significant in some case. A few computations
>> previously performed
>> using font ascent are now performed using real char ascent and hence can
>> produce result
>> differences vs vertical position. In case of doubt, please tell them to
>> submit test files.
>>
>> Also remember that until 1.4.0 final is out, we reserve ourself (the Scribus
>> team) the
>> right to make any change we believe necessary, including in the text layout
>> algorithms.
>> Consequently text layout stability is not guaranteed between release
>> candidates.
>>
>> Jean
>
> Some things shifting are unacceptable between revisions. Do you seriously
> expect people to redo all their layouts because text placement was
> implemented "wrong" in previous versions? You either have to accept that it
> will be "wrong" forever due to poor judgement during the original authoring,
> or (more professionally) have RC6 compensate for this when opening RC5 (and
> earlier) documents by automatically correcting the text placements so their
> IS no shift.
>
> Either this needs to be corrected promptly, or I'm reverting back to RC5,
> because I'm CERTAINLY NOT going to manually change all my text frames across
> multiple documents!
>
> Mike
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Revert to rc5... We aren't reverting this in a hurry with another release.
Craig
