[scribus] BUG: open 1.4.n file in 1.5.svn loses contour line and text reflows.

[JLuc]

Hello,

As for me, the 1.5 is great,
and i manage well with the fewer and fewer issues it has,
but there are still some layout bugs in the 1.5.
Since all layout bugs will lead to layout change, when fixed...
it looks like a good idea to fix as many of these layout issues first,
before releasing "official unstable 1.5".

I took of survey of the bug reports and marked
the layout bug that could trigger issues as raised in that thread
with the "layout" keyword (so : only when the fix could change a layout).
See http://bugs.scribus.net/search.php?tag_string=easyhack

I did not include color or image related issues.I found 24 of them,
but some of them are old and could have been fixed in 1.4 or 1.5.
(who wants to test the older one ?)

JL

Le 07/04/2014 14:57, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
> On 04/07/2014 08:13 AM, Peter Nermander wrote:
>>> I did not notice the change at first, as I had *assumed* the two versions
>>> of
>>> the same program would not behave differently, and sent the file to the
>>>
>> That's not a very good assumption to do. What if an older version of a
>> program has a bug affecting how the final result looks? Should the
>> developers leave that bug in place to make sure older documents don't
>> change? I think it's better they fix the bug, even if it means it will
>> "break" a lot of older documents.
>>
>>
> Sometimes, it's not necessarily a bug, per se, but what we have seen is some alteration or tweaking of how text frames
> handle text, which can affect how much text fits into a frame and perhaps line breaks.
>
> This having been said, it might be conceivable to adjust various settings in Advanced Settings, such as word tracking to
> try to compensate.
>
> There is some news coming out of LGM, which should be seen more officially soon, that there are now plans to come out
> with an "official unstable" 1.5.0 in a couple of months or so, which will allow more users to have access to it,
> especially those who do not compile Scribus. As the designation implies, it will be understood that not all features in
> 1.5.0 will be fully operational and free from bugs, but it will allow more widespread access to things like export to
> PDFX-1a. With some caution, it may allow some to do their primary work in 1.5.0 to avoid problems as described here.
>
> Greg
>
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