[scribus] text-flow gets changed by 1.5.8

Fri Feb 18 11:38:55 UTC 2022

This can be affected by the libraries included in the OS or the build, especially harfbuzz etc. It'd be great to get whatever sample files we can to review. 

Thanks
Craig

On 18/02/2022, 12:25, "Andreas Mair" <amair.sob at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello!

    I think that's what happened here, too. I've started working on a "new"
    document and noticed that some texts don't fit into the defined text boxes.
    By "new" I mean that I'll always start with the latest issue of that
    magazine and change the texts etc.

    For the latest issue I used 1.5.7, now I'm using 1.5.8. After reading your
    posting I will try to go back to 1.5.7 and see if everything is fine again,
    just to exclude used libs (used font didn't change).
    If it's simply a matter of running 1.5.7 or 1.5.8 I'll try to narrow the
    problem down.

    Best regards,
    Andreas

    Am Do., 17. Feb. 2022 um 18:38 Uhr schrieb Martin Zaske LINGO <
    martin.zaske at lingo-benin.org>:

    > 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
    >
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