[Scribus] Scribus for Mac OS X

[Michael Crisci]

Jon,

   I have nothing to lose. The program has NEVER run or opened for me!

Michael Crisci


"The older I get, the more I prefer the company of animals."

      - Mark Twain



On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:35 PM, jon wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> there is a file "checkfonts.xml"
> path: ~/.scribus/checkfonts.xml
>
> You can try to delete this (it's a collection of cached font paths) or
> delete the whole .scribus folder.
> It will be recreated after you start scribus.
>
> You might want to backup the whole thing before, though - if you  
> delete
> the whole folder,
> your prefs and colors (and?) will also be lost.
>
> cheers
> Jon
>
>
> Am 24.01.2007 um 00:04 schrieb Michael Crisci:
>
>> I let it run as long as it wanted, and it then just quit.
>>
>>
>> Michael Crisci
>>
>>
>> "You have your friends, the telephone, your computer, your TV and  
>> your
>> job. Your dog only has you..."
>>
>> Paul Harvey
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:43 AM, avox wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Crisci wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Craig,
>>>>
>>>>   Yesterday I left Scribus running for over a half an hour, and it
>>>> was still stalled on setting up the font cache. Should it take that
>>>> long? I suspect something else may be the cause. Is there anyone I
>>>> can contact to do a diagnostic check and walk-through on this
>>>> program?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Building the font cache the first time might well take half an hour.
>>> Difficult to tell since it depends on the number of fonts you  
>>> have and
>>> your hardware. But I'd not expect more than two hours on a PPC.
>>>
>>> About installing/deinstalling:
>>>
>>> The 1337 binary is self-contained and doesn't use any of the old
>>> libraries, except Ghostscript. Removing the Scribus.app bundle will
>>> uninstall.
>>> There are also some Scribus settings in /Users/yourname/.scribus .
>>> This is a hidden directory, but it doesn't take much space and you
>>> can ignore it. If you need to remove it you can do it from the
>>> Terminal application with "cd ; rm -rf .scribus" (take care you dont
>>> add any spaces within ".scribus" !)
>>>
>>> If you want to check what Scribus is doing, there are two
>>> possibilities:
>>> a) open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and search for any  
>>> output
>>> Scribus makes
>>> b) open Activity Monitor, select the Scribus process, and click  
>>> on the
>>> information icon (blue 'i'), then on analyze. This gives you a  
>>> list of
>>> functions Scribus spent time in recently.
>>>
>>> It's also possible to start Scribus in debug mode from the Terminal:
>>> just type "gdb /Applications/Scribus.app" and Enter. In this case
>>> all Scribus messages are written to the Terminal instead of the
>>> Console
>>> and you can interrupt Scribus at any time by pressing Ctrl-C in the
>>> Terminal and set breakpoints, print backtraces etc.
>>>
>>> /Andreas
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