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

Julian Robbins julian.robbins at q-par.com
Wed Nov 26 13:05:51 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
I think the other issue is whether the images are linked relatively ie
if they are in the same dir, it might be image path ='.', or whether the
images are linked with absolute paths.

I'm going to try the mindtouch wiki form, to see if they have any ideas too.

-- 
Kind regards

Julian





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