[scribus] Not an acceptable file format ???

[Helio S. Ferreira]

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For me too.



2011/12/20 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>:
> 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
>
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Hélio José Santiago Ferreira
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