[Scribus] Upward compatibility from 1.3 to 1.4

[Louis Desjardins]

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>On Saturday 08 April 2006 17:07, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>>  >On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:36, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>>  >>  Hi Team,
>>  >>
>>  >>  I should know the answer but just as a stupid check:
>>  >>
>>  >>  Say we use 1.3 series on Windows (average Windows users). Considering
>>  >>  that it is stable enough to work (and we cannot use 1.2.x on Windows
>>  >>  as a plain regular user), can we assume 1.4 will be able to open
>>  >>  those "old" documents in the stable version?
>>  >>
>>  >>  So, question really is: can we assume there will be an upward
>>  >>  compatibility between 1.3 and 1.4?
>>  >>
>>  >>  I am not concerned with backward compatibility because I think this
>>  >>  is irrelevant in OSS (users can just update, as simply as that).
>>  >>
>>  >>  Thanks!
>>  >>
>>  >>  Louis
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>>  >Hi Louis,
>>  >
>>  >We take care to make sure new versions can open old docs. There is  a
>>  > special fileloader plugin which does just that.
>>  >
>>  >I have files from 0.5.5 which used QT2 that open in today's bleeding edge
>>  >1.3.4CVS.  *Sometimes* The text runs are slightly different, but the files
>>  >are completely usable and editable.
>>  >
>>  >Moreover, I built Scribus 0.8 to make additional test filess just for that
>>  >purpose.
>>  >
>>  >So, you can count on opening the files for sure. What will change is the
>>  > text runs with the new text engine as it will be smarter about paragraph
>>  > shaping and line breaks.
>>  >
>>  >I hope that makes clear what to ensures old files are opened without
>>  > drama.
>>
>>  Yes Peter! Super clear! Thanks.
>>
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>To be perhaps even clearer, Andreas plans to split the existing text rendering
>out so existing docs can be loaded AND rendered how they are right now in
>1.3.4cvs. There would then be a simple "reflow with new text engine" option
>on a per frame or per document basis. Thats kind of the existing idea. We may
>not achieve it, and it certainly wont be available immediately but if we can
>get it to work users should have the best of both worlds.

You rock! :)

Louis

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>Craig
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