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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0015124 | Scribus | Styles | public | 2018-02-02 13:01 | 2025-02-16 15:42 |
Reporter | scyg | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | random |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | Linux | OS | Linux Mint | OS Version | 18.1 Cinnamon 64 |
Product Version | 1.5.3 | ||||
Summary | 0015124: Drop caps style fails randomly | ||||
Description | When using drop caps on a paragraph style, the following text jumps around randomly - either offsetting into the next column or clashing with the drop cap. The "distance from text" setting doesn't work in any sort of predictable way to correct the problem. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Turn on drop caps in a style, select character style to use for the leading character. | ||||
Tags | dropcap | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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Please provide a sample document, that will make it easier to reproduce the issue. |
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Please also note the letter substitution - the first letter should obviously be "L" from "Lorem ipsum" |
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Here is a file with the styles as shown in the image above |
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Where? |
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Trying to attach file again. |
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Thanks. |
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I committed a first fix which correct the drop cap glyph substitution. Currently I can still not explain the incorrect offset. For some reason, the issue seems to occur here only when using PostScript fonts. |
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There is at least a workaround: your Headline Font style has a nonsensical value for font size. Set it to 10 and your issue goes away. |
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I came here with a similar issue. I created a character style for the drop caps with a font size of 3x the body text (36pt for body text of 12pt). I had to choose a font size when creating a character style. Choosing the intended size seemed logical. As can be seen in the example this created a rendering where the second line crossed the capital. Changing the font size of the dropcap character style to 12pt, same as the body text, fixed the issue. I'm using Scribus 1.5.8 from Debian. If this has not been address in one of the newer versions, I suggest to change the software to ignore the font size set in the character style. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2018-02-02 13:01 | scyg | New Issue | |
2018-02-02 13:01 | scyg | File Added: Screenshot from 2018-02-02 06-57-43.jpg | |
2018-02-02 13:01 | scyg | Tag Attached: dropcap | |
2018-02-02 13:03 | jghali | Note Added: 0044904 | |
2018-02-02 13:04 | scyg | Note Added: 0044905 | |
2018-02-02 13:08 | scyg | Note Added: 0044906 | |
2018-02-02 13:17 | jghali | Note Added: 0044907 | |
2018-02-02 13:21 | scyg | File Added: Bug report 0015124.sla | |
2018-02-02 13:21 | scyg | Note Added: 0044908 | |
2018-02-02 13:44 | jghali | Note Added: 0044910 | |
2018-02-04 00:17 | jghali | Note Added: 0044912 | |
2018-02-04 15:06 | jghali | Note Added: 0044914 | |
2025-02-16 15:30 | nicorikken | Note Added: 0052063 | |
2025-02-16 15:30 | nicorikken | File Added: Schermafdruk van 2025-02-16 16-24-42.png |