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This is not only a screen preview issue. Export PDF and you'll get exactly what you see: overlapping letters. Very annoying. |
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I tested more and here is additionnal information: 1. When the overlap occurs on a line that's hyphenated, the hyphen remains there if the word is long enough but it then hyphenates wrongly. Example: effi-cace ends up eff-icace (in French, the latest is wrong). 2. The problem doesn't seem related to typesize. I've tried with lots of different sizes and I am always able to reproduce the bug. 3. Once the problem is located, it is possible to reproduce it using either the width of the text frame or the gutter width. 4. Text frame can have any number of columns, issue still present. 5. When text is justified, letters overlap and... (see 6) 6. ...when text is ragged right, the overlapping letter is pushed to the far right side of text frame. |
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2005-03-01 23:22
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OverlappingLetters2.png (103,896 bytes) |
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2005-03-01 23:22
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SeparatedLettersRagRight.png (182,963 bytes) |
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I am taking the liberty to add Rolf's comment from the mailing list, about the same issue: " [...] the thing appeared directly after inserting and hyphenating a text without changing the frame." |
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2005-03-02 13:46
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test3.png (13,403 bytes) |
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2005-03-02 13:47
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test4.png (23,833 bytes) |
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Test3.png and Test4.png (from Rolf) only to show it happens with various languages. So, tested with French and German. |
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Well... Finally found a workaround to this issue. Issue seems clearly related to hyphenation. I have no other clue so far. I am ready to investigate further if necessary. Please let me know what the plans are. I can also reaffirm it's *v e r y* annoying. I'm putting the last touch to a tight 12 pages of additionnal documentation on Scribus for my workshop at AQUOPS and this caused me problems, more than once. Overall quality control and proofreading are complicated. Quite unproductive imo. Workaround: 1. Open the Story Editor and select the word that has overlapping letters. 2. Retype this word (beware of typos...). 3. If it's a long word, retype only a portion of it, where letters overlap. Try to at least grab a hyphen, even if you don't see it. 4. Repeat for all instances in each text frame where the problem occurs. 5. Update text and leave the Story Editor. Warning!: Beware of other instances that can occur consequently (it happens)! This operation will take away the hyphens (the hyphens are of course invisible when not needed, still, they are there) that cause the problem. Of course, you might as well end up with a few holes in your type which will affect the overall "typographic gray". But at least your readers will be able to follow. And it's always possible to add a discretionary hyphen manually using CTRL + hyphen (-). |
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Reminder sent to: fschmid I can confirm this is a very annoying bug and it still exists in 1.3cvs. Even in the roadmap I didn't find a planned bugfix for this. I think this should have higher priority than e.g. changes in the user interface because it really breaks the functionality. Cheers, Christian. |
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Can you please provide a small sample doc which shows that issue? |
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2005-04-08 22:58
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2005-04-08 22:59
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Hi Franz, I have just uploaded a .sla file showing the problem, plus its .pdf version. Please let me know if anything else was needed. Many thanks! Louis |
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tested the fix for both 1.2.2 and 1.3.0. Looks perfect now. |
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