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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0013864 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2016-03-28 19:12 | 2016-03-29 13:12 |
Reporter | JLuc | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | Linux | OS | Ubuntu | OS Version | 14.04 |
Product Version | 1.5.2.svn | ||||
Summary | 0013864: Creating non existing glyphs | ||||
Description | The behaviour and UI choice is not consistent in how does scribus handle non existing glyphs creation. For example, scribus does *not* allow to *type* a non existing glyph : keystrike is void and has no effect. A patch to allow this has been rejected (which # ?). But, when user changes the font of a text, scribus doesnt check that all used glyphs exist in the new font and *does* allow to create a non existing glyph. An empty square is displayed. It seems importing text also imports non existing glyphs. ## Side notes - It seems not valid glyphs are a pain for the RIP. - The preflight verifier can warn about these ## Issue : How could scribus deal best with such issues ? When not allowing how to deal with the requests to create one ? How to notify the error and not silently fail ? When allowing, how to prevent creating buggy PDFs ? | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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>> When allowing, how to prevent creating buggy PDFs ? There is no solution *at all*. The worst in the case is that file ripping can succeed, but the result will obviously not be correct. [Edit] in a decent PDF processing workflow, this kind of file will be rejected and will never reach the press. Return to the page layout guy => time lost. |
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>> But, when user changes the font of a text, scribus doesnt check that all used glyphs exist in the new font and *does* allow to create a non existing glyph. An empty square is displayed. >> It seems importing text also imports non existing glyphs. For those cases the preflight verifier already checks for non existing glyphs. >> When not allowing how to deal with the requests to create one ? How to notify the error and not silently fail ? An acceptable solution would be creating some kind of bubble hint. Inserting the missing glyph is not. |
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would it be hard to do as firefox does and show a box with a code in it? cf. attachment. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2016-03-28 19:12 | JLuc | New Issue | |
2016-03-28 20:19 | jghali | Note Added: 0039479 | |
2016-03-28 20:23 | jghali | Note Added: 0039480 | |
2016-03-28 20:26 | jghali | Note Edited: 0039479 | |
2016-03-28 20:26 | jghali | Note Edited: 0039479 | |
2016-03-28 20:39 | jghali | Note Edited: 0039480 | |
2016-03-29 13:12 | ale | Note Added: 0039501 | |
2016-03-29 13:12 | ale | File Added: char-codes.jpg |