[scribus] interesting article with thoughts for us

[Gregory Pittman]

On 04/12/2011 01:18 PM, Christen Anderson wrote:
>> However, there is one feature that is really necessary. When Scribus
>> 1.4.0 opens a file in the old format it should recognize that the file
>> it is opening is not in 1.4.0 format and do something to protect the
>> old file on disk from 1.4.0's auto-save feature. Either open the old
>> file as a copy or disable auto-save for the file, or at the very least
>> pop up a warning to the user.
> It does. When I first open an old file in 1.4.0rc2 I get a popup box stating
> that if I save the file in 1.4.0 it will no longer be readable by older
> versions.

And I believe that autosaves happen with a .autosave extension.

Greg