[scribus] latest version for Linux Ubuntu

[john Culleton]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:06:45 +0200
Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:

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> On 16/09/2011, at 16:20, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
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> > hi
> >>> In my daily tracking of Scribus 1.4.0 RC5 I note that the size of
> >>> the file has grown from 13363546 to 13365914.
> > [...]
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> >>> Scribus is advancing rapidly, and there is still considerable room
> >>> for more development.
> >> Referring to file size as a measure of state is so incredibly
> >> misleading. It's relevant to your machine only and the libraries
> >> installed.
> >> 
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> > i can only disagree here!
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> > a growth of 2368 bytes is a clear sign of progress!
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> > and this overnight!
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> > i crosschecked this by downloading the installer for 1.3.3.14 and
> > for 1.4RC5 (i took in both cases the windows version to get
> > standard values, not one one compiled by myself and though
> > influenced by my local libraries): 1.3.3.14 is 21783558 and 1.4RC5
> > is 54441320! this is more than twice better! (or, more exactly, an
> > improvement of 32657762!) and this matches my -- subjective --
> > experience: 1.4 is at least two times as good as 1.3.3.14!
> > 
> > it's a pity that there is no package for 1.5, yet. but i'm sure
> > that i bet it will be at least 125215036 ... there are so much
> > improvements in there!
> > 
> > 
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
> > 
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I was of course using file size not as a figure of merit but as
an indicator of change. BTW last night's 1.5.0 compile was 15,236.403.
It may be bloated by marker code inserted for debugging purposes. For
me the most important improvement is still the inclusion of PDF
X/1-a:2001 as an output option.

Size aside, If 1.4.0 is not significantly better than 1.3.3.14 then an
awful lot of effort has been wasted. 

My experience, dating back to the IBM 360 days, is that software grows
but never contracts. By the time we got to the 370 series the same DOS
operating system (not to be confused with MSDOS of course) had  grown
to ten times its 360 size. The functionality was about the same
however.
 
Interesting (but not significant) that the Scribus Win 32 package is so
much bigger than the Scribus Linux 32 package. Perhaps more of the
library code is compiled in.

 But I do an apples to apples comparison,one night to the next, 
and use it as a measure of change. The flash screen date is usually 
behind the times and the compile number changes
every 24 hours whether or not there have been changes. So for us
outsiders the file size is the truest indicator of real change.

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html