Hello all,
I have a problem that seems to present itself on a clean installation of Scribus 1.4.0 running on Windows 7.
When I create a text field box, and then export that form to a PDF (ensuring to embed all fonts) my text boxes simply "don't work" on the form. That is, I cannot enter text in them.
If I right-click the text box and "Edit Text", the chosen font is always some obscure font that happens to be at the very top of the list alphabetically. If I click the drop down and try to use Arial Regular (which is the font I have chosen to use as a default) - it's not on the list. It IS on the list for a Text Frame, but not a Text Field.
I have had this problem on a couple of different workstations and I am not sure what the problem is.
Can anyone give me some ideas on why this is happening?
Thanks,
-Steve Ballantyne
I found a work-around to this problem, albeit a really bad work-around.
I got into File > Preferences > Fonts, and then unchecked EVERYTHING except for one working font (such as Verdana and it's variants).
Now Scribus does not keep switching to a strange font from the top of the list, because the top of the list (and the only thing on the list) is Verdana. Then when I export to a PDF, there is only one font to embed, Verdana, and it works without issue.
Still ... I would love to know the source of this issue. I don't believe I had these problems with the 1.3.x branch?
Thanks,
-Steve Ballantyne
Meybe you should write a bug report in bugs.scribus.net
Good call. I have opened a bug report for this one:
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9806 (http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9806)