On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 22:28, rmunn at pobox.com wrote: > Greetings, > > First, thank you to the Scribus developers for a very useful piece of > open-source software. Unfortunately, I'm running into an annoying bug > that's making Scribus rather difficult for me to use right now. When I > create a text frame and type in it, I can see the text as I type. But as > soon as I hit the Backspace key to correct any mistakes, the entire text > vanishes. But when I start typing again, the entire text re-appears. > > Hitting Backspace isn't the only way for me to make the text disappear. > It also disappears when I click outside the text frame. I can select the > frame, and its border appears as a red dashed line, with grab handles to > resize it. I can resize the frame, and it resizes just fine -- but still > the text inside is invisible. The only way for me to actually see what's > inside the text frame is to click on the "Edit Contents of Frame" tool > and actually add at least one character to the text, at which point the > entire text reappears. If I delete one character, or highlight part of > the text (whether with the cursor or the mouse), the entire text > disappears again. > > This is purely a display problem: the actual characters are not being > lost. But the only way that I can see the text is to either add a > character, or else work inside the Story Editor tool. This is making it > almost impossible to use Scribus productively, as I can't rearrange text > frames on the page and see how they're going to look. > > I'm running the Gentoo distribution of Linux; I compiled Scribus from > source with Gentoo's portage utility. Versions of Scribus and the other > packages that it depends on (at least according to Gentoo's list of > dependencies): > > scribus-1.1.6 > zlib-1.2.1 > qt-3.3.2 > libart_lgpl-2.3.16 > lcms-1.12 > freetype-2.1.5 > > Have you seen this problem before? Is there any other information you'd > like me to provide? > > P.S. I would report this on the Scribus Bug Tracker, but > http://scribus.bradney.info/ gives me a 404 Not Found error: "The > requested URL / was not found on this server."
Try: http:// bugs.scribus.net However, this is fixed in 1.2CVS. You can setup a CVS download with instructions from here: http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/index-2.html#ss2.3 and http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/compile-cvs.html or download the CVS ebuild from www.scribus.net in the downloads > development section. Cheers, Peter
