[scribus] Fitting Text

Peter Nermander peter at nermander.se
Fri Jan 13 12:15:38 UTC 2012


> I need text fitting. In Indesign CS5 I wrote a script that made a little
> page label indicating
> the magazine section - it used fitting. I see no way of achieving that
> in Scribus at the moment.
> Seeing as all labels are the same font and always one line - I could set
> the vertical height, but
> I need the box to find the horizontal width and add a little bit of
> padding all round.

If I recall right someone has written a script that adjust the height
of a text frame to fit the text. I guess that can be easily adopted.

I think I found it in the wiki:
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Adjust_a_text_frame_to_fit_its_content

/Peter



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