[Scribus] 1.4

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Sat Apr 8 05:04:26 CEST 2006


Thomas R. Koll wrote:

>Am 07.04.2006 um 18:54 schrieb Gregory Pittman:
>  
>
>>And there remains this one-way schism between 1.2.x and 1.3.x formats,
>>where once it's saved in 1.3.x, you can't go back. Are we to expect  
>>this
>>again in 1.3.4 or 1.4.x?
>>    
>>
>
>I hope so. Backwards-compability is often something that slows down
>innovative development. I wouldn't mind if 1.4 don't open 1.3 docs  
>anymore
>if there are many improvements.
>
I disagree. New versions need to be able to open old file formats. They 
do not need to be able to save in old formats, but they must be able to 
open them so that you can convert old documents to new formats for 
future work.



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