[scribus] Scribus in place of Pagemaker?

Louis Desjardins louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com
Wed Aug 6 23:17:05 CEST 2008


Gregory Pittman a écrit :
> Frank Swygert wrote:
>> So what version of Scribus are you running? Of course I'd be best off 
>> to start with the latest. I read about the format change... sort of 
>> stupid that the new version doesn't come with a format converter or 
>> some way of reading the last version files (I can understand a couple 
>> versions old though), but I guess it's sometimes necessary. I believe 
>> the team went to a totally different, more standard format? 
> To be specific, use 1.3.3.12 for now. Newer versions *always* can load 
> files from older versions. While there are some interesting new features 
> in 1.3.5, it still has a number of drawbacks on a practical level, and 
> once you save a file, you can't load it into 1.3.3.12 (there are 
> workarounds).
> 
> Do NOT use 1.3.4 -- this was a brief post-1.3.3.x and pre-qt4 version 
> that has had no bug fixes since it was released in May, 2007.
> Unfortunately, some distros put it in their repositories, and we can't 
> get them to take it out.

Greg, I am only thinking of this now but could it be simpler to remove 
the 1.3.4 link on the Scribus website so the people who are making those 
decision could simply have no access to that version?

Louis
> 
> Greg




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