[scribus] Text does not align to Baseline Grid

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Gregor Ruso <gregor.ruso 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!
>
> Gregor


Gregor,
Sorry to hear about this complexity you are experiencing especially when
there is a delay in progress.
Any progress so far?
/Kunda
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