[scribus] Red Boxes Appearing in Print Preview

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 20 22:29:27 CET 2010


On 01/20/2010 02:40 PM, Midori Toraha wrote:
> Hello! I'm new to using Scribus as well, and am enjoying it very much. I've found the Get Started With Scribus wiki to be very helpful, but I couldn't find the answer to an error I'm getting...
> Things look normal in edit mode, but when I printed some pages to see how things were looking, I noticed these little red boxes appearing at the beginnings of certain lines. When I checked it in print preview, I could see the little boxes, but since I don't see anything unusual in the layout or in edit text, I don't know how to go about getting rid of them. I'm running 1.3.6svn and have put up some screenshots:
> http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt298/deslatte_pics/scribus/scribus_box.jpghttp://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt298/deslatte_pics/scribus/scribus_box2.jpghttp://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt298/deslatte_pics/scribus/scribus_box3.jpg
> It does it on left and right-hand pages, over text and over blank space, once or twice on a page, on five out of fifteen pages so far, and the preflight verifier doesn't see any problems, but the boxes are always on the left-hand side.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!-Midori 		 	   		
>    
Try clicking Edit > Select All, which should select all objects, to see 
if anything shows up where these small boxes are, then try to delete them.

Greg




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