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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0017262ScribusImport / Exportpublic2024-10-23 18:42
Reporterazwing Assigned Tocbradney  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionduplicate 
Product Version1.7.0.svn 
Target Version1.7.0Fixed in Version1.7.0.svn 
Summary0017262: Version interoperability
DescriptionIt is not a bug just a wish!
Would it be possible to implement the save as to be able to save for previous versions of Scribus
Steps To ReproduceNA
Additional InformationNA
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has duplicate 0017289 closedcbradney Enable File->Save As to older version 

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nitramr

2024-09-01 12:42

developer   ~0051301

What is the need for this request? Scribus is free and everyone can use the latest version. From my point of view, there is no need for a backwards compatible mode.

If you have files created with a development version like 1.7.0. You can open your file with a text editor and change the document version number.
<SCRIBUSUTF8NEW Version="1.7.0.svn"> --> <SCRIBUSUTF8NEW Version="1.6.2">

Each newer document version may have changes that are not supported in older Scribus versions.

ale

2024-09-02 14:35

manager   ~0051302

as complement to what nitramr wrote:

... you can try to modify the version.
this will mostly work in the early phases of a development series, but is less and less likely to work with each new feature that the development version gets.
all in all: scribus does not have the workforce for implementing a save function into older version.

on the other side, there is one thing that could be done in the long term: modify the .sla file format so that it can contain tags and properties that are not known to a specific version of scribus: when opening the .sla file, scribus could then ignore what it does not know, warn that some type of error has happened (maybe with some details about them) and render what it has understood.

but even this is something that is highly unlike to be implemented soon.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-08-30 20:11 azwing New Issue
2024-09-01 12:35 nitramr Severity minor => feature
2024-09-01 12:42 nitramr Note Added: 0051301
2024-09-02 14:35 ale Note Added: 0051302
2024-10-22 13:15 nitramr Relationship added has duplicate 0017289
2024-10-22 13:16 nitramr Assigned To => cbradney
2024-10-22 13:16 nitramr Status new => assigned
2024-10-22 13:16 nitramr Category General => Import / Export
2024-10-22 13:16 nitramr Fixed in Version => 1.7.0.svn
2024-10-22 13:16 nitramr Target Version => 1.7.0
2024-10-22 13:17 nitramr Status assigned => resolved
2024-10-22 13:17 nitramr Resolution open => duplicate
2024-10-23 18:42 cbradney Status resolved => closed