Hi Martin We'll test it but like I said, there might not be a way forward for 1.4.x on Windows 10.
Thanks Craig > On 27 Oct 2015, at 11:44, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: > > Thank you Craig for this information. Sorry for a late delay, plenty of > work at the moment and our commercial French spell checker (Cordial from > Synapse) has also gone Zombie in Windows 10... And Corel X6 is showing > all menus in white on white... Beware the user who has got deadlines, > maybe Win 8.1 is still a much more stable OS than Win 10. > > I hereby beg and plea to Jean and team to make 1.4.6 "stable" for > Windows 10, please please. We do all our production work in 1.4.5 and > spend a lot of our time in Windows on our personal machines. We have > never moved to Scribus 1.5 because of the "not stable" status (no need > to go there again unless people have new facts about stability). In our > public office we run Linux machines, but we are traveling, so are using > our notebooks at the moment. > > Alternatively we are running Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS in Virtualbox. Sadly, > the sharing of data between the host Windows 10 and the guest Ubuntu > 14.04 is rather a pain. Still this would be an option, to take our DTP > work into Ubuntu, if the "Scribus behaves funny in Windows 10 situation" > would prevail for several more weeks or months. > > So if you could please give us an idea about timing (even informed > guesses) for 1.4.6 and what the plans are concerning Qt, that would help > us a lot. > > thank you and greetings, > > Martin > > > > PS: And for ending on a positive note: Normally we run small print runs > from our own laser printers or we publish online etc. Last week we > ordered 4c recto/verso digital prints from a new-to-us commercial online > print shop: > Suddenly we had to deal with bleeds, photos converted to CMYK TIFF with > integrated profiles, PDF/X-3 export, colour management and a certain > profile for the machine... All we could afford was pseudo > online-proofing. So The Wait was rather exiting. But the results are > marvellous, very very nice on 200g coated non-glossy paper. What a delight. > And Scribus has handled it all very competently (apart from the > erratically sideways jumping menus). We do not have budgets to play with > the pros, but we can prepare pro-ready documents for printing. Thank you > Scribus-team! > > > > >> On 20.10.2015 17:20, Craig Bradney wrote: >> Apart from any new version of Qt that Jean might use with the upcoming >> version of 1.4.6, there's nothing we can do to fix this. We don't control >> menu locations, Qt does, and it might only receive fixes in Qt5 which is not >> used for 1.4.x. >> >> Craig >> >> >> >>> On 20 Oct 2015, at 17:10, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: >>> >>> Dear List, >>> >>> just upgraded both our personal computers to Windows 10 Pro 64bit English >>> >>> and kept both our Scribus installations through the upgrade: >>> >>> Scribus 1.4.5 >>> >>> Build ID: C-*-T-*-C1.8.6-Windows64bit >>> >>> Using Ghostscript Version 9.16 >>> >>> >>> >>> We are both using an extended desktop, by running an external monitor of >>> same size as our main monitors (full HD). >>> >>> Now we both noticed that opening the menus (File, Edit, Item, etc.), >>> they tend to jump sideways, where they do not belong. Normally (in >>> Windows 8.1 Pro) they were opening more or less underneath the menu-name >>> in the menu bar. >>> >>> The lateral offset is so bad, that for certain menu-items, they are not >>> being shown (i.e. they are being shown "where there is no more screen"). >>> >>> This is probably a bug, as we can repeat it and can observe it in two >>> machines. We are stressed, getting ready for a deadline. I will file a >>> proper bug-report towards the end of this week (I hope). >>> >>> >>> For right now: >>> >>> - Has anyone else observed this behaviour too? >>> >>> - Any reasonable workarounds yet? >>> >>> - (For my wife it helped to re-arrange her physical set-up; she moved >>> her external screen to the left of her computer, to make more of the >>> menus come up, "where there is screen". My external monitor is already >>> to the left side - I just suffer from badly placed menus.) >>> >>> >>> >>> Bright side: The upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 has worked >>> surprisingly well (option of keeping all my apps and data) and Scribus >>> 1.4.5 is at least working. (There was one driver and one program >>> (Virtual CD) which had to be entirely re-installed and upgraded too. >>> >>> >>> Greetings, and thanks for any input, >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> ___ >>> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >>> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >>> See also: >>> http://wiki.scribus.net >>> http://forums.scribus.net >> >> ___ >> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net >> http://forums.scribus.net > > > -- > ZASKE Martin > responsable G?G? > BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin > tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 > tel pers 97.44.62.95 > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
