Thank you for the ideas. I never did figure out what the problem was. Manually adjusting the supposedly-super character in the properties dialog had no effect in display or PDF output. In the doc setup dialog, the superscript offset was set to 0%. However, setting it to any other value also generated no change.
Whatever was wrong, I was able to copy and paste the document contents into a fresh document, and the problem has completely vanished. I'm happy to mail the broken .sla to anyone is interested in a specimen for forensic study. Otherwise I'm dropping it. Enjoy, Clay On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 15:47, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:06:37 -0700 > Clay Fouts <goatlove at khephera.net> wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> I'm experiencing a problem with Scribus' rendering of superscript >> characters in a specific document. In the story editor any superscript >> characters render as expected with the super's base resting near the >> mean line. However, in the document display and in the PDF doc the >> super characters are resting on the baseline. This happens with any >> font and in any style (or no style) throughout the document. I can >> bring up a fresh document and everything renders as expected all the >> way through to the target PDF. >> >> Here is my installation info: >> Scribus Version 1.3.5.1 >> 11 August 2009 >> Build ID: C-C-T-F-Q-Mac/Aqua >> Using Ghostscript version 8.64 >> >> Where is a good starting point to figure out what is causing this? >> Thank you for any tips or leads. I'm happy to provide further details, >> of course. > > > I think the problem is that what is done in the story editor does not > necessarily get transferred to the text box. This maybe an Ubuntu > issue for me, and as a work around let me suggest; > > Go to the text box, select "Edit contents of frame" icon > > Highlight the character you wish to superscript > > Get the Properties dialog up > > Select Text->Color and Effects > > Press the superscript icon > > Note that in File->Document Setup->Typography, you can set the > properties of the superscript. > > > > > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
