I had the same problem only worse (1.3.3.12). Even with a couple of text characters printed small in a huge text frame I would sometimes get the overflow sign. This only happened sometimes, and no one on the list had an answer.
Marco Boeringa wrote: > Does anyone know why Scribus needs the Text Frame to be far bigger > than the Minimum Bounding Box (MBB) around the text it contains? -- Mick