[scribus] Problem following the wiki tutorial - section 5

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/20/2011 11:08 AM, Colin Adams wrote:
> On 20 July 2011 15:48, Louis Desjardins<louis.desjardins at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 2011/7/20 Colin Adams<colinpauladams at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>
>> Hi Colin,
>> You have 2 elements, one on top of the other. The black band is below and
>> the red text is on top. The reason for creating a larger text frame is that
>> you want to be able to see all your text at large size. If the box is too
>> small, the text will be there but it won’t appear. Instead, you will find a
>> little red square with an x in the middle at the bottom-right corner of
>> your
>> text frame. This means there is content in the frame but "too much" to be
>> displayed. The way to make sure your title will be displayed, is to make
>> the
>> frame larger "for the moment" and in fact it won’t matter much in this case
>> if the frame remains like that.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> Louis
>>
>> OK, thanks.. I guess it makes sense. Personally, I'd rather just enter text
> in a small font, and enlarge it until it fits. Is there a disadvantage to
> doing it that way?

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