[scribus] problem opening AquaScribus

[Gregory Pittman]

Janet Perry wrote:
> Submitted on 09/24/2008 - 20:50
> Submitted by anonymous user: [205.168.236.120]
>
> Submitted values are
>
>   Your contact information:
>     Name: Janet Perry
>     Email Address: janetwrites at ecomail.org
>   About your Scribus program:
>     Version: older
>     Prebuilt/Compiled: Prebuilt
>     Build Date:
>   Your operating system and CPU:
>     Type: MacOS X
>     Version: 10.3.9
>     CPU type: Other/Don't know
>   Your request content:
>     Subject: problem opening AquaScribus
>     Message:
> I have downloaded AquaScribus... but it keeps telling me that 'Scribus 
> will launch after the X11 application has finished launching' ...what 
> does this mean?  I am going to dump it right now, because I got the 
> little nuclear sign... danger? when trying to open it... Really need a 
> publishing program, though... is there a better one for my laptop?
you might try the new universal binary if you can make it work. Here is 
a recent note from Craig Bradney about it:

On Monday 08 September 2008 03:49:46 pm Craig Bradney wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > I have just uploaded my universal binary for OS X (at
 > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scribus/Scribus_135SVN_06092008.dm
 > >g?use_mirror=osdn) md5 is 361c196ab61321c05b4ba6b94c6980ab
 > >
 > > This was built from 1.3.5 SVN from 6th September and comes with all
 > > the warnings and lack of guarantees that a normal SVN snapshot
 > > comes with (ie, use at your own risk, etc).
 > >
 > > Still, our build system for OS X progresses well enough now, I
 > > think, to make a public release for wider testing. There are some
 > > known issues: - TeX configuration (requires preinstall of something
 > > like MacTeX and config file editing)
 > > - Ghostscript install (requires preinstall)
 > > - Missing aspell dictionaries in the .dmg
 > > - No Boost support, so no libgeom supported frame manipulation
 > > (mesh distortion etc)
 > > - Any known issues that 1.3.5svn has
 > >
 > > It has very basic testing on Tiger/Leopard on PPC/Intel.
 > >
 > > When we release 1.3.5 final, we will releaase an updated version at
 > > the same time. Further 1.3.5SVN snapshots will be released as
 > > progress continues with development.
 > >
 > > Craig

Greg