[Scribus] resize text frames to fit text

[Gregory Pittman]

Maciej Hanski wrote:
> Maciej Hanski napisa?(a):
>   
>> Louis Desjardins napisa?(a):
>>     
>>>> Never you mind wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>>  Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>             
>>>>>  OK, found that, thanks. How can I do the same with text frames?
>>>>>  
>>>>>           
>>>> Not sure other than to manually resize the frame by dragging the corners
>>>> to fit the text.
>>>>         
>>> Exactly. You have to do that manually. If you'd like to add this as a 
>>> feature request, the best way to go is browse the bugs.scribus.net to 
>>> check wether this has been filed already. If not, go ahead. Would be 
>>> very much appreciated if you also explain with a real-case scenario 
>>> how would that feature help.
>>>
>>>       
>> I think this one comes very close to what he desires:
>>
>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1098
>>
>>     
>
> See this one as well:
>
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1069
>
>   
And for the poor-man's-automatic-manual method, try this:
1. Let's assume you have a certain width in mind, but want to adjust the 
height to fit
2. Select the frame
3. Unlock width-height in Properties
4. Click in the height window, then lengthen-shorten with the mousewheel 
or arrows at the side until the text/frame match -- using points as the 
page unit makes for very slow change, inches maybe too fast; any of the 
others will be more reasonable. While you're at it, note that holding 
Ctrl down while wheeling is different from Shift while wheeling and from 
just plain (or Alt) wheeling.

5. Analogy exercise: changing width when you want a particular height.

Greg