[scribus] latex text width larger than frame width

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/06/2011 05:20 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> Dear Scribus users,
>
> I need your help on latex frame rendering. When I insert a latex frame, add
> some text in it, and adjust the frame width, I suppose the latex text width
> be the same with frame width (since I saw a line
> "\setlength{\textwidth}{$scribus_realwidth$ pt}" in 100_latex.xml file). But
> sometimes I just miss one or two characters at the end of a line. It looks
> to me the Latex text width is a little longer than the frame width. This
> issue happens to both version 1.4.0-rc1 on Opensuse 11.4 and 1.5svn on
> Ubuntu.
>
> I wonder why this happen and is there any way to work around this. Can I
> edit the xml file so the Latex textwidth is a few pts less than the
> $scribus_realwidth$ so I do not miss any characters? I have a poster
> deadline in 10 days and Scribus is the best tool for this work, except this
> issue.


You might just try using the LaTeX command \small{} to slightly shrink 
the size of the text.

Greg