[scribus] Text does not align to Baseline Grid

[g.ru at gmx.com]

Am 22.05.2014 21:44, schrieb 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

Can you create a Mantis account for me, so I can do so? Username shall
be "Waaduu"

Thanks
Gregor

P.S.: Now the misalignment even "survives" complete reboot