Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mike Sleger: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Jean Ghali wrote: > > > Le 19/10/2011 22:43, Alexandre Prokoudine a ?crit : > >> ...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. > > Some things shifting are unacceptable between revisions.
We're talking about release candidates, not final releases. > 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, This is the most stupid solution. It has led to the code bloat and the 6000* pages of documentation of MS-Office (e.g. 'this flag means make the same wrong date calculation like Excel-1997'). If a bug needs to be fixed it must be fixed. > 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. A better approach would be to offer a standalone filter (as already proposed) to keep the code as clean as possible. > 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! This approach is the best in your case. If you are bound to a specific version of a program you should always keep a copy of it. best regards Andreas -- Andreas H?nnebeck | email: acmh at gmx.de ----- privat ---- | www : http://www.huennebeck-online.de Fax/Anrufbeantworter: +49 (32 12) 1 26 24 06 PGP-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/pgp_andreas.asc GPG-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/andreas.asc
