[scribus] Hello World 1) positive praise 2) file format backward compatibility

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Wed May 19 12:59:50 UTC 2021


On 5/19/21 7:24 AM, dude wrote:
> Hello Scribus Team,
> 
> 1) always start with positive praise: absolutely love scribus :)
> 
> being able to do great designs / Desktop Publishing under GNU Linux
> (Debian 10, love Debian :) rather than OSX & Adobe
> 
> a user made a great series of video tutorials for it :)
> 
> https://youtu.be/hMlT9C6xcDw <https://youtu.be/hMlT9C6xcDw>
> 
> (absolutely the best way to learn scribus)
> 
> 2) noticed:
> 
> 2.1.) the latest version ain't available for Debian (1.4.8 is and can
> easily be installed via apt install scributs)
> 
> 2.2.) in the README it is mentioned that coming 1.6 will not be able to
> read file format of 1.4 or 1.5 (as used in the video series)
> 
> so does the user have to worry about the files backward compatibility?
> 

I'm not sure which README you saw this in. It really doesn't make sense that 1.6 won't be able to open 1.5 and 1.4 series files.

Greg




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