> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [scribus] Scribus-1.35svn text problem. > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Date: 03-07-2008 14:26 > > > Craig Bradney wrote: > >>> I'm going crazy trying to figure out why, after I've entered text in a > >>> text > >>> frame & clicked the green tick to update, it's not being displayed in > >>> > > the > > > >>> main window. I've recompiled 3 times, changed font > >>> settings, sizes etc. What am I missing? > >>> > >> We are missing elements to figure out what happens here. Might be a good > >> idea > >> to save a minimal document that shows the problem and put it somewhere we > >> can > >> grab it and check it by ourselves. > >> > >> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >> Hi Pierre, > >> > >> Using scribus-1.24.1 I created a very simple .sla file, with a text from > >> containing just the one word,Nothing. > >> > >> This is what it looks like in scribus-1.24.1: > >> > >> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18254884/scrib-1.24.1.png > >> > >> And like this if I open with scribus-1.35svn: > >> > >> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18254884/scrib-1.35.png > >> > >> What does the circled area, in the bottom-right corner of the 1.35 image, > >> indicate? > >> > > > > > > It indicates text overflow and is an issue we haven't tracked down yet. Can > > you please submit a bug on bugs.scribus.net with the file attached? > > > There was a change in the space required above and below a font as > Scribus went from 1.2.x to 1.3.3.x to 1.3.5, and this results in > displacements of text inside a frame. It looks like you've added a > number of empty lines above your word Nothing -- one issue could be the > size that is assigned to those lines (linespacing). It should be fixable > by getting rid of extra lines until your text appears. > This is a real problem in many cases when you load an older document > into a newer version, and can require a lot of tweaking.
We do have similar bugs already.. but I think this relates to those rather than what Greg suggests.. we will see once we get to test. Craig
