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Scribus => Text and Typography => Topic started by: ice00 on August 02, 2025, 01:04:24 PM

Title: Text drop cup is no more usable in 1.6.x
Post by: ice00 on August 02, 2025, 01:04:24 PM
I move from Scribus 1.4.6 to 1.6.x and my old document needs to be managed in every pages as table with text of 1.4.6 is no more visible in 1.6.x.

But the shocking behavior is that the text drop cup features creates the first letter in lot of different way without a reason.

In 1.4.6 I use to have the first letter of paragraph big in 2 lines. I have the letter, then first line whit the continuation and the second line with the text that follow from previous line.

In 1.6.x I got those behavior (with same stile and text box in all pages):


In the style options there is only the number of lines to choices, so what is making Scribus to handle the text in so different manner???

p.s. my Scribus file manages 9,2GB of incorporated data and needs 10 minutes to load at starting, so having it now working as before is creating lot of problems.
Title: Re: Text drop cup is no more usable in 1.6.x
Post by: a.l.e on August 02, 2025, 01:56:36 PM
Can you please post sample .sla files and reference pdfs from 1.4 to the bug tracker?

If possible by isolating the pages that show the issues?

Some changes cannot be avoided, but others might be bugs that are easily fixed...
Title: Re: Text drop cup is no more usable in 1.6.x
Post by: ice00 on August 02, 2025, 03:36:43 PM
If I take the 1.4.6 Sla and open it without images (it is then converted to 1.6.x) I get all errors unless the "Th" big that is visible as "T" big and "h" normal. The mixing mode (one line empty, or two lines) are still present.

Maybe to get the "Th" wrong effects, I need to erase all unless that pages living the images it uses, but the file will be in 1.6.x format when saved.
Title: Re: Text drop cup is no more usable in 1.6.x
Post by: ice00 on August 02, 2025, 04:30:44 PM
I can bypass the Th problem by inserting "T h" and put the space with size 1.
The text that has one line empty can by bypassed by reducing the text box size of a little point, and magically it goes in two lines again.

So as I have to fix every pages for the table, I go to fix those strange behavior at the same time