On Wed, 20 May 2015 23:11:16 +0200 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:
> > > On 20 May 2015, at 23:07, John Culleton > > <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > > > I usually use the latest nightly svn of 1.5.x > > when doing my work. But I always have a week > > old copy and a month old backup version if, > > as can be expected from time to time, the > > latest version has a problem. > > > > Using last night's version everything went > > fine until I tried to save a pdf file but > > then Scribus crashed. Fortunately the Scribus > > autosave file was available. I renamed this > > file and opened it using my weekly backup > > version which had the date of May 17 2015. I > > added in the last few strokes to the image > > and saved as pdf. That was successful. > > > > I leave it to others to see why this might > > have occurred (I have two deadlines to meet > > today and tomorrow) but I just wanted to give > > the community a heads up. The May 20 version > > of 1.5.1 crashes when you try to save an > > X:1-a pdf file. So use an earlier version if > > you have it or even 1.4.x. for new work. > > > > ? > > > John - you are actively using 1.5.x for > production. Please stay with 1.5.0 (r20099 at > the latest). We will be breaking things in > 1.5.1. PDF production is undergoing a complete > rebuild as will many other major areas. > > Craig My problem with 1.5.1 got fixed overnight. But following your advice I have two questions: 1. Is 1.5.0 semi-stable (no major work being done on it)? 2. Below is the line in my script that downloads the latest version of 1.5.x overnight. How do I modify it to to get only 1.5.0 version 2099? ----------------------------------------------- svn co svn://scribus.net/trunk/Scribus s150 ---------------------------------------------- s150 is the name of a folder of course -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at http://www.booklocker.com/!
