[scribus-dev] Help !

[Marc Hoy]

THANK YOU !!! I'll give that scrapbook thing a shot ! And I'll look up that
alt version of Scribus, too.
Really appreciate your super-fast response - means a helluva lot !
Again, thanks !
Marc

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 07/14/2011 07:58 PM, Marc Hoy wrote:
>
>> Hi Scribus Community !
>> I have a problem that probably many people have. I started using the
>> experimental version of Scribus - the 1.4.Orc3 - and - as I'm sure anyone
>> who uses it knows, it's buggy as hell !
>> But that's not the main problem.
>> The principal crisis is that I am in way too deep to abandon it at this
>> point (I am finishing the second reformatting of a text - over 300 pages,
>> with 250+ illustrations), and - here's the killer - I can't open my Scribus
>> file/doc in any other version of Scribus.
>> Nor will this doc work in any other kind of software. I can convert it to
>> pdf, of course, but no other pdf reader (I've tried about a dozen - a bunch
>> of Windows pdf readers, and several Ubuntu/Linux types - I have both OS's on
>> my computer, though the Scribus is installed on Windows XP) will render it
>> manipulable. It just comes out as varying types of gibberish.
>> So - any ideas on how I can translate this document to another kind of
>> publishing software ?
>> I've had several computer-savvy friends try to do this, without success.
>> But none of them have had much experience with Scribus, and I'm hoping
>> someone in the community has faced down this particular demon, and won.
>> I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL if anyone with any ideas would offer
>> comments/suggestions/ideas, etc. etc.
>>
>>  HI Marc,
>
> 1. Best to send these things to the regular User mail list (see the list of
> recipients)
>
> 2. You should be able to get the rc5 1.4.0, which can load this file. There
> are still a few bugs, but probably not show stoppers for you.
>
> 3. Another work around is to save page content to the Scrapbook, then go to
> an older version in the 1.3.5 series, and pull them in there. This uses the
> same Scrapbook.
>
> Greg
>
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