[Scribus] spaces in text frame

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On Wednesday 29 November 2006 15:51, Terence Chan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting spaces to appear properly in a text
> frame; hitting the space bar when editing text makes all spaces
> appear as a - or ~ like character. I then tried to insert a space
> using the "Insert Glyph" dialogue, which makes spaces appear ok
> in scribus, but then the -/~ character reappears in the pdf file
> (at least with PDF X-3 - I haven't tried PDF 1.x).
>
> I can't be the first person to want to have spaces in a text frame,
> so what am I doing wrong?
>
> My setup is Scribus 1.3.3.4 on Fedora Core 5 with Acrobat 7.

Terence, could this be a problem of the font you are using? Did you try to 
change the font, using something common like Arial, Times etc.?

Best,

Tom