[scribus] Not an acceptable file format ???

[Gregory Pittman]

On 12/20/2011 10:17 AM, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hello
>
> I got caught out earlier today as I was surprised to find that Scribus
> 1.3.9svn (from Nov 2010) couldn't open a file created in Scribus
> 1.4.0rc6. This was also the case for a file created in 1.4.0rc4 too.
>
> In theory the file formats haven't really changed in this period, so has
> this message been added to protect us from the text rendering change
> which came in around 1.4.0rc4? If so its quite annoying. I understand
> why the text layout engine had to be changed, (although this itself will
> cause us many problems) but as so many people are/were using Scribus
> 1.3.5+ series and on, compared to 1.3.3.13 for its many better features
> and fixes its really going to break a lot of people's files they have
> created just 6 months earlier !!
>
> Is this really sensible behaviour ? I totally appreciate that 1.3.5+ and
> 1.4.0rc are not 'stable' releases, but as you know many users were using
> it anyway as 1.3.3.13 is so old now, and that we were encouraged to use
> it by many (including myself) on the mailing list.
>
This has happened before. The workaround is to simply open the SLA file 
in a text editor and substitute 1.3.9svn for the 1.4.0whatever you have 
in the Scribus Version variable, then save. At least this has worked for 
me many times.

Greg