Am Samstag, 31. Oktober 2009 10:09:18 schrieb Anke Lange: > scribus-request at lists.scribus.info schrieb: > > May I ask you to write on English. > > Not everybody understand German. > > > > Thanks. > > Hallo Victor I apologise for writing in a language that not anybody > understands. I will repeat my answer to Christopher in English to make > it understandable for everyone out there. And I hope everybody > understands my bad English. > > Thanks Christopher for answering in German. > > Hallo Christopher > > I have tried Scribus 1.3.5.1 with Ubuntu, because I write teaching material > for Scribus-classes. While I had a look at the new Scribus I came across > some strange things. > > The properties inspector for text properties has been putting into so many > little sub register, that it lost it's clear arrangement. Plus the sub > register are so small, that you have to scroll within them to be able to > find all formations. I thing that this solution is very complicated and > difficult to use, especially for learners. > > The Style sheet-Editor I find it very difficult to handle too. > When you open the editor, you first choose the kind of style you want to > create. Than you click new and you have to choose again, what kind of style > you want to create. > > To part the possible formations on 3 register does make the the editor even > more complex especially because there is no preview any more. So before you > know what your Text looks like you first have to define a Style and > allocate it to a text frame. Than you do your formatting and look in the > text frame, if it is like you wanted. > > Within the text editor I had to look very heard, where to find the Button > to OK my changes. Until I found it hidden the extending button in the tool > bar. (I want to apologise, this was the text editor, not the style > sheet-editor) > > I like Scribus a lot, it is a great program. Otherwise I wouldn't give > classes to show people how to use it. but to be honest, sometimes less is > more (German saying) > > Because of all this, I have a Question. Does the Layout of the program > change in the foreseeable future. It would be great and desirable if > someone would have a closer look on the handling and intuitive of the > programs layout. > > It seams like, I haven't really understood, why there was a rc version of > the 1.3.5 and when it will replace 1.3.3 as stabil version. > > > regards Anke Lange > > > > I want to thank Christopher and everybody else for the informative answers. > > The point is, that a lot of my students ask me about the 1.3.5, because > they think, that it is due to be published very soon as the replacement > of 1.3.3. > They fear, that there work will be a waist of time, because it says on > the scribus-homepage, that you can't work with files you made in 1.3.3 > with 1.3.5 and higher.
That's not what the website says. You can always open files created with an earlier version, just not the other way around. Christoph
