ciao chantal > Okay but is it possible to check this with a script? > i've never tried (it's one of my goals for this year to play a bit with scribus scripting... it must be fun :-), but i recally having read on this list, that you should go this way, if you want to adjust the height of a frame through a script.
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=scripterapi-textframes mentions a textOverflows() method... so: yes, you should be able to do it with a script! have fun a.l.e
