[scribus] Text does not align to Baseline Grid

[Gregory Pittman]

On 05/22/2014 10:46 AM, g.ru at gmx.com wrote:
> Am 22.05.2014 16:18, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
>> On 05/22/2014 09:57 AM, g.ru at gmx.com wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently composing a conference transcript using Scribus 1.4.3 on
>>> Windows 7 Enterprise. The document is by now containing 228 pages and
>>> several pictures.
>>>
>>> Up to now the text aligned, as specified in the corresponding style
>>> (which I named "Text"), to the baseline grid. Suddenly some paragraphs
>>> refuse, while others in the same paragraph style are still aligned
>>> correctly. I did not change anything in the style settings, when this
>>> occurred, just worked in the text.
>>>
>>> To fix the problem I tried to change the paragraph style settings' line
>>> spacing mode from "Align to Baseline Grid" to  "Fixed Linespacing",
>>> which worked for each single paragraph in "Text" style. Changing back to
>>> "Align to Baseline Grid" was interesting: first the option disappeared
>>> from the drop-down list. The second time "Align to Baseline Grid" was
>>> selectable, but when selected the option jumped back to "Fixed
>>> Linespacing". Third try was successful, though clicking apply only
>>> changed back the paragraphs which already where aligned correctly in the
>>> beginning. The others remained in the fixed line spacing I set before.
>>> Several tries followed the same scheme.
>>>
>>> Restarting Scribus did not work.
>>>
>>> Third idea that came to my mind was changing the style of the wrongly
>>> aligned paragraphs from "Text" to another style and back again. This
>>> works reproducible but is not feasible for a document containing several
>>> hundred paragraphs.
>>>
>>> Finally I tried to reboot the whole system - which seems to solve the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Is this issue known, or does anyone experience similar?
>> This sounds like it might be a failure of the page to refresh. I have
>> seen this before in other situations where a change is made but doesn't
>> appear on the page. When you save then reload, the change is there,
>> suggesting that it was there but didn't display properly.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there is something like a "hard refresh" command that
>> might accomplish this as a shorter backup method...
>>
>> Greg
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for your fast answer. What confuses me is that the "misalignment"
> still exists after closing Scribus completely without saving, then
> reopening it and reloading the file. Shouldn't that display the correct
> alignment? The version you suggested (saving, then reloading) displays
> the changes I did in the text, but the text is  still misaligned.
>
> As I'm currently trying to get rid of orphans and widows this is really
> keeping me from working!
>
In that case, you should file a bug, and upload the file or some part of 
it that shows the problem. That way we can try to see if it's OS- or 
your computer-dependent.

Greg