[scribus] text-flow gets changed by 1.5.8

[Andreas Mair]

Hello!

I think that's what happened here, too. I've started working on a "new"
document and noticed that some texts don't fit into the defined text boxes.
By "new" I mean that I'll always start with the latest issue of that
magazine and change the texts etc.

For the latest issue I used 1.5.7, now I'm using 1.5.8. After reading your
posting I will try to go back to 1.5.7 and see if everything is fine again,
just to exclude used libs (used font didn't change).
If it's simply a matter of running 1.5.7 or 1.5.8 I'll try to narrow the
problem down.

Best regards,
Andreas



Am Do., 17. Feb. 2022 um 18:38 Uhr schrieb Martin Zaske LINGO <
martin.zaske at lingo-benin.org>:

> Hi list
>
> I was getting help recently, while "hacking" a quick calendar with
> tab-stops. I opened it a few days later, once more, and made a second
> version. My document was made with version 1.5.7.
>
> This was after I had just installed version 1.5.8 (on Windows 10 pro,
> 64bit). The layout had changed some, text inside a text-frame had
> shifted. Since I had done some hacking (as explained in my last thread)
> I blamed myself and quickly re-edited to make things align again.
>
>
>
> Today it happened again, but in a "good document", i.e. everything
> vanilla, no hacking: We are redesigning our magazine, moving from A3
> page size to A4 and making spin-off versions for smart-phone screen
> proportions.
>
> I had started a sample template a few weeks ago. Now I have installed
> version 1.5.8 and again, I notice that text in my sample article has
> been shifted.
>
>
> I am using nothing fancy, two text-frames (as two columns) next to each
> other on each page, with links between the frames. There are photos on
> another layer above the texts and I am using the "text flows around
> contour line" option. I still have both versions on my machine and I
> made two identical copies and open them at the same time: Look
> different. Not a font issue, not a Windows issue as far as I can tell.
>
> After more searching and opening the two identical copies of my file
> with swapped Scribus versions I have confirmed the problem. Now after
> some searching I can say, it is caused by different "interpretation" of
> my main text style by the versions.
>
> I am using justified text with Fira Sans, Align to Baseline Grid,
> Optical Margins both sides, Advanced Settings: Min Space 80%, Glyph
> extension Min 95%, Max 105% (do not yell at me, early days) and nothing
> fancy in the Character Style tab of my style definition. The text is in
> an African language and (automatic) hyphenation is not activated.
>
> So when I open my document in different versions, somehow my text via
> style (alignment) gets rendered a little different than before. This is
> affecting only certain lines, maybe one line every ten lines and I
> cannot say it is "more dense" in 1.5.8, some paratexts get a little
> longer. But the changes are still too much to allow a good work-flow.
> And in our office we use Windows and Linux machines and all versions are
> 1.5.x but at different stages always.
>
>
>
> Now before I spend a lot of time with research: Have other users noticed
> that same behaviour?: Text-layout or text-flow changes between versions
> 1.5.7 and 1.5.8 in Windows?
>
> Is this "allowed" behaviour in the 1.5 series? I am aware this is free
> software and my mail is not a complaint. I was just under the
> impressions (false?) that within one series like 1.5.x files or Scribus
> would remain compatible.
>
>
> With any normal small project, I would just quickly fix it and be done.
> But since we are preparing an entire re-design, I am now nervous about
> this as you can imagine.
>
>
>
> Normally I cannot easily share documents because of data protection and
> copyrights etc. But since I have only done the very first draft-steps
> and I only have used free photos from Pixabay, I could upload somewhere
> if anybody would be interested to test.
>
>
> Thank you for your help and greetings,
>
> Martin
>
>
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