On Friday 07 January 2005 18:26, Mark Kimsal wrote: > panos wrote: > > Hi from Athens, > > > > First of all congratulations to the scribus team for this great software. > > > > I 'm running a publishing house and I 'm are very interested by the > > scribus software. We try and test it since version 1.1 on a mandrake > > 9.0, and 9.2 system. Until version 1.1.7 we have not any problem. > > Recently we upgrade one of our pcs to mandrake 10.1 and we installed > > scribus 1.2 and the trouble begin. IT 'S IMPOSSIBLE to have the accent > > letters. Same with version 1.2.1. > > > > If we try to write a text directly in a text frame all greek > > characters are fine but the accented ones are not accepted. The > > strange thing is that when we use the menu option "insert" then we > > have no problem!!! > > In the internal editor the accented letters are very well accepted and > > displayed on the screen but when it's time to save and update the text > > frame in the document then the entered text stops at the first > > accented character !!! > > > > By the way, all other text processing software (Open Office, K-Office) > > is working nicely event in the ancient greek multi-accent system, so i > > suppose that it is not a system or font configuration problem. > > > > Any ideas? > > I have (Mandrake) Linux 10.1 with scribus-1.2 and scribus-1.2CVS. I > have succesfully used both with entering Chinese characters in GB2312 > and UTF-8 encodings. If you can give me exact instructions to reproduce > the probmem I can help debug the problem. I am able to reproduce a > similar "bug" where greek letters are rendered as boxes, but if I > highlight the words in the story editor, choose a different font, and > then publish down to the text area it renders correctly. It sounds like > you are using a font that doesn't have glyphs for accented characters.
Yes it certainly sounds like a font issue given any character, also try zooming in to see if the accents appear clearer at a certain zoom level. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050107/0f9436ed/attachment.pgp
