That was the problem: no backward compatability. Too bad. I guess the expert who extended himself with an example document had a newer version than the executible that I had just downloaded and installed.
Thanks! On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote: > > > I clicked on http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/8879.sla and > > the link > > opened in IE. I copied the source to Notepad and saved it as an sla > > file. > > The OS recognizes it as a Scribus file but when I tried to open it > > with > > Scribus I received a popup that complained that it wasn't in the right > > format. > > > Hi, > > The first line would have read; > > <SCRIBUSUTF8NEW Version="1.3.6.svn"> > > If you try to open that in Scribus-1.3.3.x then you will get the wrong > format error. > > sla files created in Scribus 1.3.3.x cannot be opened in Scribus-1.2.x > sla files created in Scribus 1.3.5.x cannot be opened in Scribus-1.3.3.x > sla files created in Scribus 1.5 cannot be opened in Scribus-1.3.3.x > > > IE, there is no backward compatability, so hopefully, you were using > 1.3.3.x > -- > > > > Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090919/791f47c7/attachment.htm>
