[scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.4.0 RC6 Release

[Mike Sleger]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:

> On 10/20/2011 09:15 AM, Mike Sleger wrote:
>>> The previous behaviour of Scribus has been acknowledged as a bug. Now
>>> the bug is fixed.
>> 
>> Changing generated layout between revisions in a page layout application (where a user presumably created the layout as they wanted it to be) without a means to adapt the layout (automatically) for compatibility with the new code (with no shifting) is not the way things are done in the professional world of programming.
>> ___
> 
> Something you could do, which might help others out, and perhaps suggest a fix, would be to determine the difference or shift of the lines. Is it a fixed amount? Is it dependent on font size?
> 
> The answer might come from shifting text frames by a certain amount, with or without resizing (could be done with a script), or perhaps aligning to baseline in some instances.
> 
> Even those of us who are not contributing to code can find ways to help others come up with solutions to our problems.
> 
> Greg

Perhaps other people also experiencing the text vertical shift can verify this, but in my documents shifting each text frame down -1.0 pt restores their positions, regardless of font and size.  For me at least, it's fairly consistent across the text frames and documents.

Mike