[Scribus] Convert to outlines

[bulk at katskave.com]

Since we seem to be trying to figure out when this occurs, I tried it 
for the first time on my mac - installed via fink.  I have Qt version 
3.2.1 and Scribus version 1.1.1 Build-ID 04.  October 2003 C-C-T

At first it appeared that the whole text box disappeared, but by 
clicking the area, I was able to get it to reappear.  Instead of 
letters I have boxes outlined in dotted green lines around the space 
that each individual letter should take up.  I figured "convert to 
outline" means the outside of the letter - not the outside of the space 
that the glyphs are placed in.  I'm not experiencing it working 
correctly on *any* letter - not even the last one.  Oddly enough, while 
clicking around, I was able to right click and select "convert to text 
box".  After I did that, the last letter (only) had a black dotted 
outline.  The properties box no longer allows me to do anything - it's 
all grayed out.  Selecting anything else still causes the whole box to 
disappear, but if I click around in the vicinity and manage to hit it, 
it will reappear.  When I right click and copy, then paste, I get 
filled black boxes, and the option to change to a text box comes back.  
Selecting it produces no change other than option to change to a text 
box goes away.  I was able to "ungroup" the original, but all the boxes 
turned "invisible", even though I could still get lucky and select them 
and change their size and shape.  After I did that I could use the 
properties box.  After all this, Scribus died on me, although I wasn't 
running it in a debugger so I don't know why it died.  If what I said 
doesn't make any sense, I can take some screen shots.

After doing all this I remembered the problems with text colors, and 
exported to PDF.  All that showed up was the copy with the filled black 
boxes.

I'm going to try to run some more tests while running the debugger, but 
I might not have time for a few days, so I figured I would at least 
post what I tried so far.

let me know if I'm just wasting bandwidth.

-- mary

>> Hello,
>>
>> This happens consistently on my  (using 1.1.1 or 1.1.2cvs BuildID 25):
>>
>> Create a text box and type something in it. Then select it and choose 
>> Item -> Convert to Outlines. The last character in the string gets 
>> converted to curves as expected (does a nice job, too), all other 
>> characters become empty rectangles the the size and shape of the 
>> letterforms.
>>
>> After ungrouping, the last character can be edited as a normal bezier 
>> object, the others can be selected and moved around but that's about 
>> all. If I choose 'Edit Object' with one these rectangles selected, 
>> Scribus dies in its tracks with
>>
>> GArray::at: Absolute index 0 out of range
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> I seem to remember that Convert to Outlines worked at one time, but I 
>> haven't neded it for awhile and can't be sure. Am I doing something 
>> wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Steve