Greetings, First, thank you to the Scribus developers for a very useful piece of open-source software. Unfortunately, I'm running into an annoying bug that's making Scribus rather difficult for me to use right now. When I create a text frame and type in it, I can see the text as I type. But as soon as I hit the Backspace key to correct any mistakes, the entire text vanishes. But when I start typing again, the entire text re-appears.
Hitting Backspace isn't the only way for me to make the text disappear. It also disappears when I click outside the text frame. I can select the frame, and its border appears as a red dashed line, with grab handles to resize it. I can resize the frame, and it resizes just fine -- but still the text inside is invisible. The only way for me to actually see what's inside the text frame is to click on the "Edit Contents of Frame" tool and actually add at least one character to the text, at which point the entire text reappears. If I delete one character, or highlight part of the text (whether with the cursor or the mouse), the entire text disappears again. This is purely a display problem: the actual characters are not being lost. But the only way that I can see the text is to either add a character, or else work inside the Story Editor tool. This is making it almost impossible to use Scribus productively, as I can't rearrange text frames on the page and see how they're going to look. I'm running the Gentoo distribution of Linux; I compiled Scribus from source with Gentoo's portage utility. Versions of Scribus and the other packages that it depends on (at least according to Gentoo's list of dependencies): scribus-1.1.6 zlib-1.2.1 qt-3.3.2 libart_lgpl-2.3.16 lcms-1.12 freetype-2.1.5 Have you seen this problem before? Is there any other information you'd like me to provide? P.S. I would report this on the Scribus Bug Tracker, but http://scribus.bradney.info/ gives me a 404 Not Found error: "The requested URL / was not found on this server." -- Robin Munn rmunn at pobox.com
