[scribus] Scribus-1.35svn text problem.

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- 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.net>
> 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