[scribus] Scribus 1.3.8 vs 1.3.3.13svn

[Murray Strome]

On Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 6:01 AM, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

Murray Strome wrote:
> I have just finished installing Scribus 1.3.8 (Build ID: C-C-T-F-C1.8.10-64bit) in Kubuntu 10.04. It is very different from 1.3.3.13svn! I was wondering if there was some kind of simple comparison chart between the two versions to help me to find the familiar controls/buttons and to briefly describe some of the new features.
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comparison chart:

1.3.3.13     1.3.8
bad            good

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Well, I would not say 1.3.3.13svn was "bad", and having played with it for a few hours now, I have found a few more problems with 1.3.8:

1. It has crashed a few times -- I cannot remember the last time 1.3.3.13 ever crashed (on Kubuntu) on me.
2. If I try to copy and paste a group of image frames in 1.3.8, the Y position of the pasted group is really weird! For example, if I have four photo frames which have a Y position of something like 130mm, when I copy those and paste them, the new Y position of the pasted group becomes something like -452.385 mm.
3. Sometimes, the text frames cannot be selected. I have to close the document and reopen it in order to modify the text frames. This is rather annoying!

I don't know if these are bugs or if I am simply doing something wrong.
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the problem with writing a comparison chart is that people who knows what features are in 1.3.8 have not used 1.3.3.x for years...
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1.3.3.13 is what has been in the standard ubuntu repository for quite some time now. I don't think 1.3.8 is as stable, although it is usable.

> 1. If I open a document created with the older version, some of the text frames became too small to contain the text in them (I had to make them slightly larger).
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could you please upload one of those documents to the bug tracker and attach a pdf created with 1.3.3.13 and one created with 1.3.8 to compare the differences?
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OK, I will try that. Actually, I no longer have 1.3.3.13 on my system; it has been upgraded to 1.3.3.14. I have produced a one page document originally created by 1.3.3.13 and opened with both 1.3.3.14 and 1.3.8 and produced PDF files for both. Once I know where to upload them to, I will try to upload the four files: 2 .sla and 2 .pdf.
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have fun with scribus 1.3.8
a.l.e
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For the most part, WHEN it works, it seems to work fine, but it has a lot of new things to learn.

Murray