On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 10/20/2011 09:15 AM, Mike Sleger wrote: >>> The previous behaviour of Scribus has been acknowledged as a bug. Now >>> the bug is fixed. >> >> Changing generated layout between revisions in a page layout application >> (where a user presumably created the layout as they wanted it to be) without >> a means to adapt the layout (automatically) for compatibility with the new >> code (with no shifting) is not the way things are done in the professional >> world of programming. >> ___ > > Something you could do, which might help others out, and perhaps suggest a > fix, would be to determine the difference or shift of the lines. Is it a > fixed amount? Is it dependent on font size? > > The answer might come from shifting text frames by a certain amount, with or > without resizing (could be done with a script), or perhaps aligning to > baseline in some instances. > > Even those of us who are not contributing to code can find ways to help > others come up with solutions to our problems. > > Greg
So I'm thinking the only way to do the compare is export a pdf of an RC5 document, import the pdf into RC6 onto a layer under all the existing layers, then manually determine the text vertical shift to check for a consistent trend?
