> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:02:56 -0500 > Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com> dijo: > >>> >Well why not try simply deleting those blocks and see what >>> happens. >>> >(have a back up of course) > >>> Good suggestion. Didn't work. I saved it from Gedit as a copy, but >>> Scribus wouldn't open it. No error messages, it just failed to open >>> it. :( > >>Could it be an invisible character such as a "paragraph return". This >>sometimes happens and it???s hard to find since nobody expects this. > > It could be. It could also be a space at the end of a paragraph, where > the font setting came from text copied and pasted in from OOo. Or it > could be in a style that I never actually used, perhaps a style that > came in with some copied and pasted text. I also sometimes copied and > pasted graphics containing text from Inkscape; it could have come from > there. > > My worry is that I may have actually used Arial in a block of text. > Switching it to a different version of Arial could cause text reflow > and I might not catch it before printing the document. > > This used to happen to me on occasion several years ago when I used > InDesign. But with InDesign there was a means of locating text > document-wide that had a particular font applied to it. In Scribus I > can only do searches in Story Editor, and this document has over a > hundred stories. > > At least I can now assume that a document-wide search function is > lacking in Scribus. I may have to bite the bullet and search one story > at a time.
I forget your original problem, but if it was to stop the "Replacing Font" dialog box from appearing, do a global search and replace with a font name the you have. If Arial did nothing before, then the replacement font will do nothing also. Perhaps -- Owen
