[Scribus] Re: Scribus Digest, Vol 30, Issue 42

[Robert R. Di Giorgio]

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>   1. HELP!! Scribus 1.3 "can't write the PDF file"
>      (Robert R. Di Giorgio)
>   2. Re: HELP!! Scribus 1.3 "can't write the PDF file" (Thomas Koll)
>   3. Re: Tile Printing (PLinnell)
>   4. Re: CVS dirs for 1.2.3 and 1.3.1 / using user fonts only
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>   6. Re: Slightly OT: Font problems with Adobe Reader 7 (PLinnell)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:06:26 -0700
>From: "Robert R. Di Giorgio" <bobdi at mindspring.com>
>Subject: [Scribus] HELP!! Scribus 1.3 "can't write the PDF file"
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>I have September's issue done, 825.5 KB, all fonts embedded, preflight 
>verifier says "No problems found", but when I click on Save in the PDF 
>window, I get an immediate message from Scribus that it "cannot write 
>the file".  The hourglass continues to turn, so I gave it time to see if 
>it was writing the file anyway, but it didn't finish in an hour and I 
>gave up.
>
>I checked to make sure there wasn't another file of the same name in the 
>folder. I made sure all the fonts that are in the document were 
>embedded, I have plenty of memory and hard drive space.
>
>How can I get this file to print to PDF? I'm up against a deadline.
>
>Thanks.
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:42:16 +0200
>From: Thomas Koll <tomk32 at gmx.de>
>Subject: Re: [Scribus] HELP!! Scribus 1.3 "can't write the PDF file"
>To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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>Am 29.08.2005 um 10:06 schrieb Robert R. Di Giorgio:
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>>I have September's issue done, 825.5 KB, all fonts embedded,  
>>preflight verifier says "No problems found", but when I click on  
>>Save in the PDF window, I get an immediate message from Scribus  
>>that it "cannot write the file".  The hourglass continues to turn,  
>>so I gave it time to see if it was writing the file anyway, but it  
>>didn't finish in an hour and I gave up.
>>
>>I checked to make sure there wasn't another file of the same name  
>>in the folder. I made sure all the fonts that are in the document  
>>were embedded, I have plenty of memory and hard drive space.
>>    
>>
>
>How about the access rights to the directory? try a different one,  
>preferably in your home directory.
>
>ciao, tom
>
>--
>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TomK32
>http://www.tomk32.de
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>
Good thought, but the target was in my home directory, and I also tried 
saving the file as root.
Thanks anyway. Bob
I didn't mention: my OS is FC4.