[Scribus] renaming scribus*.rc : new problem, and didn't fix old problem

rafter t. sass theprisonisonfire
Wed Sep 19 04:48:05 CEST 2007


Hey there,

I renamed scribus*.rc, and my Story Editor is still stuck in the top left corner of the screen. 

Plus, even though I've sinced changed the name back, now Scribus tells me on startup that Ghostscript is missing, even though it hasn't been moved or changed - it's still right there in frameworks.

Help!

best,
rafter

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   1. Re: Preparing a Scribus workshop (Benjamin Huot)
   2. Re: Intelligent Outlining / Image sizing. (James Gilmore)
   3. Re: Intelegent outlining (Lance)
   4. Story editor stuck in at top of screen (rafter t. sass)
   5. scribus running slow (rafter t. sass)
   6. Re: scribus running slow (Benjamin Huot)
   7. Re: Story editor stuck in at top of screen (Benjamin Huot)
   8. Re: story editor stuck at top left of screen (Fran?ois Pallut)
   9. Re: Downloadable Documentation (Asif Lodhi)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:28:59 -0700
From: Benjamin Huot 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Preparing a Scribus workshop
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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thanks for clarifying that

> When Scribus was ported to Mac OS X, Qt 4 was not available.
>
> Stable versions of Scribus still do not use Qt 4 - on any platform.  
> This
> is because code must be ported from Qt 3 to Qt 4, Scribus has a lot of
> code, and there aren't that many people doing the porting.
>
> There was indeed no suitably licensed version of Qt for a Scribus
> Windows version when that first saw work. There still isn't, really,
> since Qt 4 Open Source Edition only supports MinGW. TrollTech have  
> been
> kind enough to help the Scribus project out in this area, so that  
> builds
> can be done with MSVC++ (thus gaining Scribus access to GDI+ etc,  
> which
> MinGW doesn't support).
>
> In short, the Windows version has in no way been "chosen over" the Mac
> version. A large part - though far from all - of the difference is Qt
> 3's rather alpha quality support on Mac, which should be fixed when a
> stable Qt4-based version of Scribus can be released.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:48:36 -0500
From: "James Gilmore" 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Intelligent Outlining / Image sizing.
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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 > My problem is that I need 'intelligent' outlining. Ie.
 >
 > header a
 >         child b
 >         child b
 >                 child c
 >                 child c
 >         child b
 > header a
Not to flog the dead horse, but this is exactly why supporting docbook
is so needful. That, and about 50 other reasons that deal with
workflow.

Actually, it doesn't have to be docbook, it just needs to be semantic,
and tagged. We need to be able to have an xml-tagged flat text file
that, when updated, the scribus text frames  can be updated to the new
version of the text. Scribus (or a script in Scribus) needs to be able
to import the text and assign the correct styles based on the tag info
surrounding the text. It should be able to determine the tag's id and
update the appropriate text frame. Really, that's all that's needed-
the whole docbook format doesn't need to be implemented, but the style
editor needs to be able to have external ids and/or classes assigned
to them, so that text can be imported and automatically styled. And,
the text frame should be capable of storing external id's so that the
importer knows where to stick the text. Not just one id, either: it
should be able to concatenate different id's from the xml file.

That way, the designer can design and the writer can write.

I know, I should quit my whining and just start programming. ;)


> I currently would like to put together a magazine. However the problem that I am having
> is that some of my images of quite large 1360px by 1280px and I would like for those
> actually have a page to themselves, but I do know what custom sizes to make this and
> other pages so that there no excessive paper showing behind the image.  How do I
> customize the page for the image. Or rather convert pts to pixels?

If you read back through the last two weeks of message traffic, this
was covered, but here's the short version: Scribus doesn't care about
anything but pixels. The size hints in the image file are just that:
hints. Open the properties dialog for the image frame (press F2). In
the properties box, click on "Image." Toggle the radio button that
says, "Adjust Image to Frame Size." Now the picture scales with the
image frame. Alternately you can futz with the free-scale parameters.
This could be more handy if your frame isn't rectangular.  I pretty
much just leave the properties window open all the time.
Enjoy!
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:22:15 -0500
From: Lance 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Intelegent outlining
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "rafter t. sass" 
Subject: [Scribus] Story editor stuck in at top of screen
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Hey -

Thank you Martin, for your reply.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you wrote. 
Where can I find that file?
And where should I move it to?

Thanks so much.

best,
rafter

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> Hey there,
> 
> The story editor is crammed all the way up at the top
> left corner of my screen. The top bar is hidden by the
> Finder bar on my Mac, so I can't move it out.
> 
> I'm running the latest Scribus release on OS X 10.4

Try if moving the file ~/.scribus/scribus*.rc out of the way helps.

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Martin



       
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:25:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "rafter t. sass" 
Subject: [Scribus] scribus running slow
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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I'm not sure if I don't have enough memory allocated, or what. Basic moves - resizing windows, scrolling through pull-down menus, are giving stopping halfway through, for 5-10 seconds, then continuing. I'm running the latest scribus on OS X 10.4. 

I only have 18G free on my hard drive - is that not enough to work with?

Thanks so much...

rafter

       
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:26:08 -0700
From: Benjamin Huot 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] scribus running slow
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Same with me. The Mac version is too unresponsive to be usable for me  
and I have plenty of power in system requirements.

On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:25 AM, rafter t. sass wrote:

> I'm not sure if I don't have enough memory allocated, or what.  
> Basic moves - resizing windows, scrolling through pull-down menus,  
> are giving stopping halfway through, for 5-10 seconds, then  
> continuing. I'm running the latest scribus on OS X 10.4.
>
> I only have 18G free on my hard drive - is that not enough to work  
> with?
>
> Thanks so much...
>
> rafter
>
> Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:30:36 -0700
From: Benjamin Huot 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Story editor stuck in at top of screen
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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He is refering to the file scribus*rc. in a hidden folder .scribus in  
your home folder. Which is
/Users/YourUserName You should be able to go to it by clicking on the  
little house icon on the sidebar of finder windows. I think to get to  
hidden files, you need to use the Terminal application under  
Applications folder in the Utilities folder.

On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:22 AM, rafter t. sass wrote:

> Hey -
>
> Thank you Martin, for your reply.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand what you wrote.
> Where can I find that file?
> And where should I move it to?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> best,
> rafter
>
> ------------
>
>
> > Hey there,
> >
> > The story editor is crammed all the way up at the top
> > left corner of my screen. The top bar is hidden by the
> > Finder bar on my Mac, so I can't move it out.
> >
> > I'm running the latest Scribus release on OS X 10.4
>
> Try if moving the file ~/.scribus/scribus*.rc out of the way helps.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:50:00 +0200
From: Fran?ois Pallut 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] story editor stuck at top left of screen
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Same problem on XP SP2 with 1.3.4.
Rename scribus134.rc oldscribus134.rc.
Not works the first time, but the second.
Thanks
F Pallut
Martin Costabel a ?crit :
> rafter t. sass wrote:
>   
>> Hey there,
>>
>> The story editor is crammed all the way up at the top
>> left corner of my screen. The top bar is hidden by the
>> Finder bar on my Mac, so I can't move it out.
>>
>> I'm running the latest Scribus release on OS X 10.4
>>     
>
> Try if moving the file ~/.scribus/scribus*.rc out of the way helps.
>
>   



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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:19:31 +0500
From: "Asif Lodhi" 
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Downloadable Documentation
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Thanks Craig.

On 9/17/07, Craig Bradney  wrote:
> Open Scribus, go to Help->Scribus Manual.

I did it but there is no manual or help documentation.

> If theres no docs, and you are on debian etc, theres a documentation package
> to install.

I am using Fedora 7 and Scribus has come bundled with it - 1.3.3.6
probably. Your reply suggests that the documentation package is on my
Fedora 7 DVD. I'll look it up, thanks. The problem is I can't connect
to the Internet from Fedora 7 - I have a dial-up internet connection -
it just doesn't recognize the carrier even! I don't know what they
have done with the dial-up functionality - it seems to be some kind of
an over-enhancement of security - however, I can connect to the
Internet from the same machine using a Windows installation. It was
not like that previously but it's strange now as I am having to work
on Windows installed on one disk to browse the Internet and am using
the Linux disk for work! I can't browse the Internet and work at the
same time! I'll post this issue on Fedora List. The reason I mentioned
it here is that I haven't yet upgraded to a broadband or DSL
connection and browsing the Scribus docs on a dial-up connection only
works when I am connected to the Internet - which is when I am using
Windows and Scribus is not there!

Anyway, Scribus-1.3.3.6 is really vastly improved than the 1.2.2cvs I
used to work on previously. Thanks a lot for that.

--
Best regards,

Asif


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