-----Original Message----- >From: Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> >Sent: May 29, 2008 7:13 AM >To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> >Subject: Re: [scribus] Dancing letters with scribus 1.3.5 > >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with scribus 1.3.5 from current svn, where letters seem >> to >> dance on the baseline on the printout. Is this a known bug, or am I doing >> something wrong? The same document produced by scribus 1.3.3.12svn does >> not >> show the problem. >> >> I have attached the document. It contains the single word Radfahren in >> Times >> New Roman Regular. Everything else is default. I export the document to >> PDF >> and print it from Adobe Reader. The result is quite ugly as can be seen on >> >> www.pontohonk.de/example/radfahren.png > > > > > >I just did this with 1.3.5 of yesterday I think. >http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/radfahren.png > >That was 50 point Times New Roman Regular. Screenshot from Adobe 8 > >This is an Ubuntu 7.04 system upgraded to handle current library needs
Could there be a rounding error in the rendering routines? It almost looks like a font problem, but I would rather doubt that, considering which font is involved.
