[Scribus] Modifying SLA files outside Scribus

[John Beardmore]

I've got some SLA files which may be corrupt. Ideally I'd like to 
recover them, but to be realistic it may be quicker to recreate the 
document.

I'm working under windows XP, but I'm curious to know if the same 
problems are encountered by linux users.  If it turns out to be a 
general problem, I guess it could lead to a bug report.

As the files have come confidential content I shouldn't really upload 
them unmodified for others to test without modification.

I understand that I should be able to examine / edit SLA files with 
Notepad++ because they are UTF-8.  Is that right ?

Can I just overwrite the confidential text with other characters, then 
save the file for other people to try ?

I assume that after the file is loaded, and certainly before it is 
saved, I'll need to do

     Format->Encode UTF-8 without BOM

Is that right ?


Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI
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