First, thanks to forum members who have helped me with some of my basic questions. Now I have another.
I have page numbers set up using Master Pages broken into sections, as described in the Scribus Manual. But the page numbers of my document are not appearing on some of the pages of the main section. I double-checked that the sections are defined correctly. On the pages where the page numbers are not appearing, the frame for the page numbers is there, but it is empty, and there is a little box with an X in it attached to the frame. (I also have a couple of regular text frames, not on a Master Page, with the same little box attached, but the text shows up normally in those.) I've attached an image to illustrate what I'm talking about. There are two figures, each from consecutive left pages. Page 18 (Figure 1) has a normal page number; page 20 (Figure 2) does not, and has that mysterious little X-box attached to the frame where it belongs. Can anybody help?
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hi ginkgo
this box indicates a text overflow – increase the width of the field a little bit and the page number should appear (if i'm right...)
utnik
Well, that was a simple solution. ;D Thanks for your help; I knew it had to be something basic like that. The normal text boxes with the little X turned out to have extra paragraphs (empty carriage returns) causing a technical text overflow without any actual text missing. Y'all are a helpful crew (and yes, I'm from Texas).
You can increase the text box however the real issue is the default paragraph style. If you have an indent in your default paragraph style then you will have to make text box big enough to account for the indent and page number. A better way is to make a new paragraph style with no indent and apply it to the page no. text box.
hi don duck
in this case the problem was the width of the text box. with proportional fonts '20' needs more space than the lower numbers!
...and ginkgo100 solved his problem four years ago...
utnik