Thank you Peter and Jean for your input. I will try the console option even tonight. And will mark the mail about re-setting font-thingy for when a fix comes out.
I hope I did not indirectly suggest that Scribus is "not good"; in the contrary: Scribus is awesome. Our entire project is doing all our production on Scribus, for paper, websites and whatsapp purposes. (Of course we use tools like GIMP, Inkscape and Audacity too, we are not trying to all the steps in Scribus ;) I had just observed a surprising "loss" between 1.4 and 1.5 where normally we get more options and more fun from new versions. What I learnt today is sufficient to keep us going for now. It was helpful how a.l.e explained about "an issue with the font library used by scribus and that the issue has already been solved in newer versions of the library itself". That is telling this user that it is not all random out there but the good guys are on to it. I cannot remember exactly, but I believe I started using 1.5.x either late in 2015 or early 2016. I have never observed crashes or erratic behaviour which would shout "unstable version". I believe my use of 1.5 is encouraging the developers and I hope my feedback is normally helpful, even if wordy. Again I do not remember all details, but some features lured me over to 1.5, one of which is the option to split a document, even when you got chained text-boxes with the chain running over several pages. We had special needs to do with serial printing of letters with names from databases but avoiding slow duplexing on our laser. So cut the document, serial-print first page and then print the remaining pages in bulk at 30 ppm without the duplexer. Another feature which we really love in 1.5 is the option to move the "guides" up and down and tweak their vertical positions. No more hidden guidelines underneath photos etc. I learnt about that from this list. In general it only speaks for the decency of the Scribus developers that 1.5.2 is still marked as in development. We are using some other tools which are marked as stable and which go through versions far too often - and they never really feel as stable as Scribus. And in case certain people will start wondering whether I am being paid to praise Scribus: not at all. I work for an NGO and I have started asking myself how I could find a little budget to encourage a few tools like Scribus or OmegaT once per year (we pay for other tools after all). So to tell the entire truth, on my Windows 10 64bit, I often see a harmless crash, when I open 1.4.6 (never 1.5) which is in parallel-install with 1.5.2. I have a hunch that it is to do with the co-existence. All I have to do, is start it right again and then it runs just fine. I never mentioned that anywhere because the work-around is so obvious: double-click, confirm message, count to three, double-click again, fine. So, this is my last one for this week, promise. Or they will name a spam filter after me... Scribus is great. Either version. Publisher sucks. Corel Draw was fine up to X4 then they started insulting the customers... fwiw Martin
