OK, thanks Peter and Michael. It does seem Scribus could use some serious improvement in this area. Having a text frame respecting the Minimum Bounding Box around a text would be really helpful, especially for large typefaces. The current implementation makes using the Align and Distribute tools in some cases virtually impossible. A real loss, as these tools are a vital ingredient of DTP or any layouting work in any program for that matter.
Marco Peter Nermander wrote: >> I noticed for example that if I have a text of 20pt height and 50pt >> wide, the Text Frame needs to be maybe 35pt high and 80pt wide in order >> for Scribus to display the text therein. If I make it smaller, Scribus >> generates a Text Overflow error and no longer displays the text. >> > > >> Why is this? I would expect Scribus to honour the MBB as the minimum >> > > If I recall correct, Scribus does take into account allt the ascenders > and descenders in the font. So if you have your text in capitals only, > it still wants to have space for the lower case descenders. > > Although I do agree that not showing the text is a bit frustrating, I > think it would be better if Scribus just cropped the text at the edge > of the text frame (but it might be to hard to do with the current > rendering engine). That way the user can decide for themselves whether > the overflow is a showstopper or not. > > /Peter > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
