Hi list I was getting help recently, while "hacking" a quick calendar with tab-stops. I opened it a few days later, once more, and made a second version. My document was made with version 1.5.7.
This was after I had just installed version 1.5.8 (on Windows 10 pro, 64bit). The layout had changed some, text inside a text-frame had shifted. Since I had done some hacking (as explained in my last thread) I blamed myself and quickly re-edited to make things align again. Today it happened again, but in a "good document", i.e. everything vanilla, no hacking: We are redesigning our magazine, moving from A3 page size to A4 and making spin-off versions for smart-phone screen proportions. I had started a sample template a few weeks ago. Now I have installed version 1.5.8 and again, I notice that text in my sample article has been shifted. I am using nothing fancy, two text-frames (as two columns) next to each other on each page, with links between the frames. There are photos on another layer above the texts and I am using the "text flows around contour line" option. I still have both versions on my machine and I made two identical copies and open them at the same time: Look different. Not a font issue, not a Windows issue as far as I can tell. After more searching and opening the two identical copies of my file with swapped Scribus versions I have confirmed the problem. Now after some searching I can say, it is caused by different "interpretation" of my main text style by the versions. I am using justified text with Fira Sans, Align to Baseline Grid, Optical Margins both sides, Advanced Settings: Min Space 80%, Glyph extension Min 95%, Max 105% (do not yell at me, early days) and nothing fancy in the Character Style tab of my style definition. The text is in an African language and (automatic) hyphenation is not activated. So when I open my document in different versions, somehow my text via style (alignment) gets rendered a little different than before. This is affecting only certain lines, maybe one line every ten lines and I cannot say it is "more dense" in 1.5.8, some paratexts get a little longer. But the changes are still too much to allow a good work-flow. And in our office we use Windows and Linux machines and all versions are 1.5.x but at different stages always. Now before I spend a lot of time with research: Have other users noticed that same behaviour?: Text-layout or text-flow changes between versions 1.5.7 and 1.5.8 in Windows? Is this "allowed" behaviour in the 1.5 series? I am aware this is free software and my mail is not a complaint. I was just under the impressions (false?) that within one series like 1.5.x files or Scribus would remain compatible. With any normal small project, I would just quickly fix it and be done. But since we are preparing an entire re-design, I am now nervous about this as you can imagine. Normally I cannot easily share documents because of data protection and copyrights etc. But since I have only done the very first draft-steps and I only have used free photos from Pixabay, I could upload somewhere if anybody would be interested to test. Thank you for your help and greetings, Martin -- courriel par Martin Zaske, membre de : LINGO-Bénin B.P. 48 Bassila Rep. du Bénin Tel. 00229 / 97.44.62.95 Tel. 00229 / 62.58.04.48 Organisation Non Gouvernementale Decret No. 2001-234 du 12 juillet 2001 No. d'enregistrement 6/033/P-SG STCCD-DCDI-ONG du 05 septembre 2012 Numéro IFU: 6201702245702 www.lingo-benin.org ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
