[scribus] Spellcheck problem

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Mon Sep 5 16:46:10 UTC 2016


> On 05 Sep 2016, at 17:02, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/05/2016 10:34 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
>> hi ian,
>> 
>> i guess that most people do not use the spell checking inside of scribus.
>> 
>> that's why you do not get any answer.
>> 
>> on this mac, i've tried to type a few words in (not)german in a text
>> frame, downloaded the swiss german dictionary, and all i get is no
>> correction, even if i doubt that "its" and "gräu" are german words.
> 
> Yes, spellcheck seems to be quite broken both in 1.4.7svn and 1.5.3svn.
> And it's broken in such a way that it doesn't even know it's broken. I
> find that the download dictionary feature in 1.4.7 doesn't work either,
> and in 1.5.3 I don't see anywhere to download dictionaries.
> 
> Greg
> 

For 1.4.6, downloading dictionaries works fine for me.
For 1.5.3.svn, Windows->Resources (for now).

Spelling works ok for English.

Any more data should be placed into a bug with a sample document.

Craig


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