[scribus] File path issue when opening sla files from Wiki

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Tue Nov 25 20:53:51 CET 2008


Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:37:15 Julian Robbins wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I am hoping to use Mindtouch DekiWiki as an Open Source wiki platform in
>> my company.
>>
>> But, although I would like to migrate Scribus files and images over to
>> it I have found a problem.
>>
>> The files are effectively opened from a webpage, which in turn opens
>> them usually as a temporary file. But it you try to do this with a
>> scribus .sla file then all the images aren't shown as its trying to use
>> the temporary file name path rather than just a local path like '.' All
>> my images are normally stored in the same folder that the Scribus file
>> is in, so it just needs to look in the same place that the Scribus file
>> was located.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas to get around this issue ?
>>     
>
> dont :)
>
> or... use another solution that presents the whole set of sla files, images 
> etc, as local files and then recollects them back to the wiki. Scribus can only 
> handle local files at this point.
>   
Not exactly sure what you need, but the option File > Collect for Output 
will at least put the .sla file together with its images in one directory.

Greg




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