On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Mike Sleger wrote: > If the text shift is permanent due to a bug fix, I should think then > some talented person might offer a script to "repair" the "bad" text > frames in existing documents so visually they are as they were > before, except now with the newer code. ?This approach would > keep the main application code cleaner. ?Such a script could even > be packaged with a Scribus release, much in the way some add-ins > and plug-ins are included with applications.
This is more or less what Blender team does regarding some destructive API changes they introduced between 2.53 and 2.55. Since then they ship a Python script that fixes things. It's available from Help menu. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
