[scribus] Spell Checker??

[Craig Bradney]

On 18/06/2012, at 11:29, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi
>> I have noticed mention of the Scribus Spell Checker for 1.3.9 coming up again on this Forum. (Maybe only working in the Text Editor but that's OK). But when I try to use it, (select frame and press F7), I just get a box saying "Spell Check complete" and nothing else even when there _ARE_ errors in the spelling.
>> 
>> I have asked about this before - so can we settle this once and for all please.
>> 
>> _IS_ there a Spell Checker for Scribus 1.3.9, and _HOW_ do you get it working?
> 
> 1.3.9 is an "old" development version.
> 
> you should probably update to 1.4.1 first.
> one thing is for sure: until you stick with 1.3.9, you won't get any further improvements :-)
> 
> depending on your OS, you may need the latest patches committed by craig and have to wait for 1.4.2 to be released to have the spelling check working!
> 
> depending on your skills and time at your disposal, you may want to download the current code in svn, compile it, test it to provide feedback on it.
> this will help us making it work for you!
> 
> 

For 1.4.x on Linux, the aspell based checker does work "ok". For Windows , you need to wait for 1.4.2. For OSX you need to wait too or build it yourself via manual build or mac ports/fink.

Jean put a windows svn snapshot on source forge last week. I might make an OSX one soon too.

Craig