[scribus] Scribus 1.5.0svn "smears" *some* text characters on opening 1.4.3.sla file

[Richard Foley]

Belay this mail. I discovered the text characters were in individual boxes,
which may have had something to do with it, (created via the Scribus barcode
generator). When I substituted them for a simple text box, the problem went
away. Just FYI :)

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Richard Foley

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:25:00PM +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
> The subject should read "smears some text characters"...
> 
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> Ciao
> 
> Richard Foley
> 
> Supporting Naked Activities
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> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
> > I need to produce the elusive PDF/X-1a:2011 for LSI full colour compliance.
> > I'm running SuSe Linux 13.1 Previously, I used Scribus 1.4.0 to produce the
> > basic layout and cover sla files. Then I exported them using Scribus 1.5.0. No
> > problem (eventually).
> > 
> > I find I need to do the same thing again, and am having issues. I used Scribus
> > 1.4.3 to create the original sla files. Scribus 1.5.0 wouldn't run because of
> > some silly library issues, so I installed a fresh 1.5.0 svn. (After some
> > hilarity with dependencies). Ready to go, or so I thought.
> > 
> > Now, when I just OPEN the Cover.sla in Scribus 1.5.0svn, I get a weird
> > "smear"ing of several of the type characters on my bar code. The smearing goes
> > off to the right and down. And where the smearing goes over the number
> > character itself, the black is reversed to white.
> > 
> > This doesn't look good. Has anyone else seen this before? Any bright and
> > helpful suggestions?
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance.
> > 
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> > Richard Foley
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