hi frank, hi craig, > On 6/25/10 6:52 PM, Frank Swygert wrote: > > Submitted on 06/25/2010 > > Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224] > > > > Submitted values are: > > > > Name: Frank Swygert > > Email Address: farna at att.net > > Subject: Sribus "save" format stable? > > Message: > > When will the "save" format stabilize? I've been watching Scribus > > for some time now as a possible successor to PageMaker 6 (didn't > > like the later versions). The one thing that makes me hesitate most > > is that I keep seeing statements like "if you made a document with > > 1.3.5 you won't be able to open it in 1.3.7". I'm not going to load > > Scribus now, use it to make documents (I print a small quarterly > > magazine) only to have to keep multiple copies of Scribus on my > > computer. Would you please stabilize the document format? At a > > minimum a later version should be able to open and convert the last > > stable version, or write a converter and package that with it. > > Hi Frank > > The format needs to continue to evolve as Scribus does, and in > 1.3.5->1.4.0 has hardly changed anyway. However, your statement above > is incorrect, we always plan that the later versions can open the > previous versions.. not sure where the opposite was said.. > > Sometimes, the methods of rendering things like text have had to > change as things progress when bugs are removed or features added, > however the files should still open ok.
in short: every scribus version can open files created with older versions. mostly with no perceived difference in the layout. if this isn't the case, it's a bug and it will be fixed as soon as possible (and this happens very rarely). ciao a.l.e
