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Title: [SOLVED] my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: PN on March 23, 2026, 03:10:55 PM
Hello,
When I export to PDF, the solid borders on my letters turn into dotted lines!
How can I prevent this?
Thank you
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: RodneyLee on March 23, 2026, 03:39:28 PM
can you upload a sample that does this?
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: PN on March 23, 2026, 04:09:51 PM
Here are some screenshots
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: utnik on March 23, 2026, 08:44:54 PM
hi pn

could you share the .sla file? (you may reduce the content to those three words...)

utnik
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: PN on March 23, 2026, 10:40:00 PM
Here is
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: AdmFubar on March 24, 2026, 04:03:42 AM
It appears that outlining fonts is broken. A temporary solution is to convert that text to outline  Select the text, in the dropdown menu, select Item/Convert to/Outline.
Will produce the desired result when output as a PDF. This will at enable you to finish the project.

Hopefully the outline text option will be fixed shortly.
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: utnik on March 24, 2026, 05:34:25 AM
hi pn

select the text frame containing "bribes de mémoire", then go to 'properties' ➜ 'line' ➜ 'type of line' and select a continuous line instead of the dotted line.

utnik
Title: Re: my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: PN on March 24, 2026, 09:50:02 AM
Perfect ! Many thanks
Title: Re: [SOLVED] my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: AdmFubar on March 24, 2026, 07:57:00 PM
Quote from: utnik on March 24, 2026, 05:34:25 AMhi pn

select the text frame containing "bribes de mémoire", then go to 'properties' ➜ 'line' ➜ 'type of line' and select a continuous line instead of the dotted line.

utnik
That works but it shouldnt as that line style should only be applied to the text frame as that is the property you are editing, and not the stroke of the text. Text stroke is getting the stroke style from the place. Developers take note! ;)
Title: Re: [SOLVED] my letters turn into dotted lines
Post by: a.l.e on March 26, 2026, 02:50:39 PM
As far as I can tell, Jean has now fixed the bug:

Fix text underline dependency on text frame dash array when exporting to PDF
https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus/-/commit/b5e7791ff9dca2da3de79078498311c4355afdaa

Fix text stroke dependency on text frame dash array when exporting to PDF
https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus/-/commit/2f9fc25f6d99a63e34c7854a97e213a5e5853458