Export -- Overflow Text Warning. Bug?

[Zero Zero]

Error message pops up as soon as I select "Export" from the file menu. "Overflow Text: One or more text frames have overflow text." Choose ignore to continue to export to PDF.

Happens every time. Of course I have checked ALL my text frames in the project for overflow but cannot find any to report. So could be a bug?

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, Zero Zero said:

Of course I have checked ALL my text frames in the project for overflow but cannot find any to report.

You have verified that there are no "eye" icons showing for any of the text frames? (Not merely that it doesn't look like the text overflowed, but that there are no eyes present?)

[Zero Zero]

Thanks for the reply. Yes I checked the frames thoroughly but could see no eye icon. (I do understand what this means and it did work perfectly on a previous trial project).

However after some more fine text adjustment work on the brochure project in question and doing a "Save As" to another version...  when exporting to PDF there was no error warning about text overflow! How strange?

[Chris_K]

Hi Zero Zero

Before you adjusted the text was there perhaps a case in a frame where the glyphs themselves where in the text frme but the space around the glyph was slightly outside? This is the only thing I cn think that might cause this message to appear if there was no actual overflowing text 

Cheers

[Zero Zero]

Hi Chris and thanks for the response.

The text was copied from my Blog/Web site and stored in a LibraOffice Writer Doc (native odt format) for backup purposes. From this I copied and pasted the text into the Publisher Booklet document. The section in question was spread across 22 linked text frames. It is possible that some rogue formatting remained hidden within this block of text, and it's possible that this might be the cause of the problem -- I don't really know to be honest.

Perhaps I need to copy the publisher document strip out the text and try again. The only thing is I am busy right now and it might be several days before I can reply further.

In passing I was very impressed with what I managed to achieve in Publisher, in the first Beta. Great work, it can only keep getting better. I have a lot of faith in you guys. I hope some of the features in Publisher (like the drop-down font display, and the ability to move the ruler settings to any point on the page, just to name two) make it back into the upcoming Designer update. Thanks.

 

[Zero Zero]

I think I have solved the issue causing this problem. Updating to Beta 128 I discovered the Document "Font Manager". It showed me that I had used Aerial and Aerial Italic in the document. (I had no recollection of using this in the layout!). Using the "Located" option it took me to a hidden and undiscovered text frame that spanned part of the document spread and a large section of the pasteboard. The text frame was empty (it contained no text) and was not linked to any other text frames in the document. I deleted it only to find another two similar text frames which were then deleted.

I can only assume that this was the cause of the "text overflow" message.

However the fact that "unknown" text frames remained hidden in the document is a cause for great concern to me. Publisher needs some kind of option to display such hidden and undetected objects so they can be analysed and removed accordingly.

I will post this again as a future feature request. Thank you.