Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > I have a problem with text frames in new documents. > > When I create a new text frame and try to edit text it won't let me. The > font dropdown box doesn't display a selected font. When I click the > dropdown box I see all the installed fonts, but clicking on one just > closes the dropdown box without activating the selected font. > Not sure I follow you. Are you using Story Editor to enter text? Maybe check out: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_text_frames > If I load some text from a file it shows up correctly in the edit text > dialog, but in Scribus all the characters are displayed as squares instead. > This is what happens when your font does not have the characters contained in the frame. Maybe Scribus is not finding fonts properly? > On the console some "QComboBox::changeItem: (fontStyle) Index 0 out of > range" error messages are displayed. > > I use the scribus-ng package from Debian (Scribus 1.3.4) on a 64 Bit system. > > If I open an old document (created using the same Scribus version on my > 32 Bit notebook before it broke) everything works, I can add text > frames, edit the text, etc. > I think you need a 64-bit version of Scribus...
Greg
