Hello, Volunteered to prepare a mailer for a local museum. Scribus 1.4.1 seems like the best tool on my OpenSuse Linux (11.4, 32-bit) machine with KDE 4.6.
No trouble inserting 9 images in image frames. I like the "adjust image to frame feature." Text is a problem. Using default font settings the Story Editor doesn't respond to anything but spaces after assigning the default style. The cursor stays in place when letter keys are pressed. If a space is pressed, the cursor moves and changes from a font-height line to a shorter vertical line positioned as a superscript. Double L-clicking on the frame moves the cursor inside the frame where it behaves similarly. Tried several times to import text from a file, using file/import/Get text. This sometimes worked, but the text displayed as a series of check boxes, one per character. In direct edit, I could delete these symbols but could not enter new text, not even more boxes. Went to File/Preferences/Fonts and unchecked the first entry, Adobe Pi Std Regular. Now nothing displays, not even boxes. Searched the archive and came up with only two related cases: 1. Zooming in at least 200% enabled editing for one writer, but not for me. 2. Possible problems with Qt, so I made sure I have the latest in the openSuse archive and added a few small packages that provide Qt links and connections. Closed and reopened Scribus but behavior is unchanged. There is only one paragraph style in Story Editor: default. Applying that style did nothing, so I created a new style (Head1, with font 'Century Schoolbook L' bold) and applied it by selecting from the left column in SE. Suddenly I could enter text in the RH column of SE. Shouldn't the default style allow text entry? However, the display on the main screen and print preview still shows each character as a check box. The assigned font is checked "use" in File/Preferences/Fonts. There was almost nothing else from searching lists.scribus.info that seemed related to this problem. I hope it's a goof by a first-time user. Thanks for your attention. Konsultor
