[Scribus] Which version to use?

Franz Rogar franzrogar
Mon Jun 18 01:01:44 CEST 2007


2007/6/17, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>:
> Craig Bradney wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 June 2007 15:37:43 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/17/07, Franz Rogar wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1.3.4 file format will be 100% compatible with 1.3.5 file format or it
> >>> will have that huge problems as for 1.3.3.x --> 1.3.4?
> >>>
> >> 1.3.4 might be compatible with 1.3.5, but not with 1.3.6. Using 1.3.4
> >> and unstable version is generally not recommended,
> >>
> >
> > 1.3.6 will load 1.3.5 docs
> > 1.3.6 will load 1.3.4 docs
> > 1.3.6 will load 1.3.3 docs
> > see a pattern?
> >
> The issue you have to deal with now is that if you get stuck in 1.3.4,
> whatever you have done will not be able to be opened in 1.3.3.x or
> earlier. Stuck can mean a file that keeps crashing Scribus, or something
> you can't get to look the way you want it to. For something critical,
> for someone new to Scribus, you will have a much more dependable tool
> with 1.3.3.x.
>
> Greg

Thanks Greg, that's the best pov that makes me stick at 1.3.3.x till
1.3.6 was out. :)

PS: Thanks to evryone for their responses.
PS2: About the "layering": I mistyped it, I wanted to say the image
gallery (due to the huge maps, images etc that geogly use to have on
their texts, even when it's for studends :) )

-- 
Thanks in anyway,
        Franz Rogar



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