[scribus] Text overflow when text frame height reduced

[John Beardmore]

Christoph Schäfer wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 05:29:16 schrieb William Kenny:
>> Thanks Chris, but this does not seem to be the prob. I added letters
>> ygj and the descender part is quite small and there is loads of space
>> below
> 
> Scribus uses the data provided by the font, and there may very well be glyphs 
> whose descender is larger than e.g. the "tail" of a "y". Even if there is no 
> such glyph, the font may still contain these data.

That explains why it happens, but it's still a noticeable pain when you 
know that the glyphs you are using have no such descenders etc.


Cheers, J/.
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